Of Mice and Men | | Cast : | Gary Sinise, John Malkovich | | Director : | Gary Sinise | | Studio : | MGM/UA Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | October 02, 1992 | | DVD Released Date : | March 04, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 26, 2005 | | Summary | 262-11 Summer: Assignment 5 | Content
 | The setting took placed during the Depression-era in California. George and Lennie are two lonely men who found work in a ranch while keeping away from trouble, but as much as they tried doing just that, something tragic happened.
Of Mice and Men is an adaptation of a novel by John Steinbeck. The film producers did a great job converting the novel into a film. There are scenes that were not from the novel and vice-versa. But the film still did a great job with representing the book as much as possible.
The two main characters are George, played by Gary Sinise, and his impeded friend Lennie, a character played by John Malkovich. Their dream is to own a land and in order to pursue that dream, both forlorn men decided to work in a ranch, while trying to avoid their boss' seductive wife. Lennie, who has good intentions, got himself in a dilemma when he inadvertently killed the wife of his boss's son. In the end George had to slay Lennie in order to avoid the torment by other people. Every actor did a marvelous job portraying the characters. The music for the final scenes insinuates the tragic ending amazingly.
I would recommend the film to children ages 13 and up. But I would suggest reading the book first since there are some parts that are not integrated in the film. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 22, 2005 | | Summary | Sensitive human drama! | Content
| This was the third adaptation, whose Op. 1 was directed by Lewis Milestone in the early thirties The portrait focuses around the value of the friendship and shelter given to a weak mind. Two lonely men who bet for a better life and challenging it, elusive dreamers of a uncertainty future, but as you know the fate will come for them to fade.
Fine performances, specially mention for John Malkovich as the defenseless human being. Sherilyn Penn made a very credible role. Her beauty runs parallel to her talent.
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| Rating | | | Date | July 21, 2005 | | Summary | Anyone see the Special Edition? feedback, please... | Content
| I enjoy this movie very much and am interested in buying the Special Edition as described here, with all the extra features. However, when I tried to purchase it from Amazon via this listing I received the "regular" edition instead. I even got the "regular" edition again when I returned the copy I was sent. Now Amazon won't send me any further replacements and I don't know where to go to get this (third-party seller? or will they, too, be selling the standard version?) or even if this listing information is accurate. Can anyone who has seen the "Special Edition" comment on the features included and how the packaging is different from the standard version? How obvious is this from the box? Thanks -- will submit a more movie-centric review when this basic confusuion as to contents is cleared up.
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| Rating | | | Date | March 09, 2005 | | Summary | Of Mice and Men | Content
| In my opinion the film-maker did a really good job transforming Steinbeck's novel "Of mice and men" into a movie.
The actors are well chosen, for example John Malkovic acts very well as Lennie Small.
There 's the right mixture of action and humor in the film and the mood of the novel is captured very well. The movie sticks very closely to the book, but that doesn't mean that it only retells the story - it does more. On the one hand there are some scenes which don't happen in the movie, but on the other hand some parts of the movie are not mentioned in the book: the right mixture.
The director has managed to tell the story really authentically:
George and Lennie, two guys who both have the dream to have a ranch of their own, are starting to work at a ranch, because they need money.
You can say that Lennie is a really poor guy: He 's a nice person and always has good intentions, but unfortunately he always gets himself into trouble. Without George, who always helps him out of these problems, Lennie would be stranded.
George and Lennie make some friends at their new job, but also some enemies. As Lennie accidentally kills the wife of their boss's son, the story has to end dramatically. George kills Lennie, so that the other people and Curley won 't lynch Lennie. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 09, 2005 | | Summary | Mice and Men - perfectly played by John Malkovich | Content
| On of the most famous novels by John Steinbeck, „ Of Mice and Men" has also been made into a film, directed by Gary Sinise and written by Horton Foote. The main idea of this novel, the friendship between George and Lennie, has been worked up very good. Every time George tells Lennie about their plan to have a own little house with a garden and of course rabbits, there is a background soundtrack witch sounds a bit too romantic, but all in all the songs in the film are well selected. But also the other roles are well setted and the scenes on the fields show how life was in that periode of time the novel plays. We tend to smile when we see Lennie acting as a big baby and the type of man Lennie seems to be, is perfectly played by John Malkovich. George is Lennies protector, having promised Lennie's aunt he would take of him after she died. Lennie and George, they have got a dream and they keep each other alive for awhile, but in the end as Lennie gets into big trouble once again, George doesn't see a different way...
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