Of Mice & Men
by Gary Sinise
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Actor: Casey Siemaszko, Gary Sinise, John Malkovich, Ray Walston, Sherilyn FennDirector: Gary Sinise
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-04
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Of Mice & Men
DVD Review: Of Mice and Men book revfiew
Summary: 3 Stars
"Of Mice and Men" is a novel that tells about two men and their experience working on a ranch. George is the smaller but smart one of the two. Lennie is the large one that suffers from mental retardation. Lennie is always getting into trouble but doesn't mean to. He always seems to mess things up for George. In the end Lennie does something really terrible that has only one solution for George. DVD Review: Great book adaptation
Summary: 5 Stars
This film will satisfy those who loved the Steinbeck book and want an adaptation as true as possible to the novel. The actors do a fine job portraying the characters. You'll enjoy this.DVD Review: The Lives of Migrant Workers
Summary: 2 Stars
The film opens with two men being chased by armed men with dogs. The jump into a stream to hide. Then they hop a freight train to get far away. George and Lenny go to a ranch to work, they are migrant workers. The scenes suggest the 1930s. Lenny has a problem, George looks after him. The bus driver shows malicious behavior to these strangers, a comment on human nature. Lenny drinks from a stream like an animal. [Symbolism?] Lenny wants what they don't have. George has heavy responsibilities. [Is there a hidden message here?] George has plans of buying a house and land where they can live a settled life. He says Lenny is his cousin and takes care of him. The boss' son throws his status around. Curly's wife flaunts herself; is she trouble?
We see a thrashing machine separating wheat from chaff. [Symbolism?] These machines also migrate from farm to farm. The bags of grain are loaded onto horse-drawn wagons. Curly's wife seems lonely and talks to the hired help. Candy has an old dog, lame and toothless. Is it better off dead? [An omen for this story?] Candy had this dog a long time. Curly misses his wife and searches among the hired hands. Candy offers to go in with George and Lenny to buy that farm; he is worried about his future. Curly picks a fight with Lenny and suffers. But he won't retaliate against George and Lenny. The men go into town for the Saturday, Lenny stays behind. The cook is lonely too. Curly's wife is alone and lonely. She wanders into the barn and finds the lifeless pup. What kind of harm can she do? She also had dreams for her future. Will Lenny stroke her soft hair? Will something go terribly wrong? Will Lenny seek refuge in that secret place? Candy enters the barn then tells George about the accident. "What we gonna do now, George?" The men form a gang to go after Lenny. George will go to find Lenny. Does Lenny remember what happened? Then George tells Lenny the story about the farm. Will Lenny go to a far better world that he has ever known before?
This story seems trivial on the surface. Is it a comment on the migrant workers who have no real home? Was it a subtle story about the bond between two men? Does it show how economic conditions affect the lives of ordinary people? You can compare it to the more restrained version from the 1930s and decide which was better. Was the book better than the film? You can see the care taken to make the details authentic. But an isolated farm would not have electricity in those days, kerosene lanterns would be used at night. That bus in anachronistic, it doesn't have the motor in front (like a truck). The story detracts from this well-acted film.
DVD Review: One of the best movies ever
Summary: 5 Stars
If you have empathy for others, or if you wish to further stimulate your empathetic capacities, you will find great value in this film.DVD Review: Of Mice and Men DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie was very close to the book. I used it after reading the book; it lends itself to many lessons including compare and contrast. My son had an assignment for school to read the book. After we read the book I discussed the book and movie with my high school son and the details the author gave that might have been overlooked in the movie. My son was disappointed that some of the scenes from the book were omitted in the movie. We felt these missing scenes were important to the full story. The dialect and time period were better to understand after seeing the movie. I would recommend the DVD as an extension activity after reading the book. If one didn't read the book prior to watching the movie, then this person would fall short of the author's complete message.
Description of Of Mice & Men
John Steinbeck's classic comes magnificently to life in this beautiful and stirring film starring Oscar? nominees* John Malkovich and Gary Sinise. Directed by Sinise from an adaptation by Oscar? winner** Horton Foote, this "flawless miracle of movie-making" (Susan Granger, "American Movie Classics") is a must-see for all audiences. Best friends Lennie (Malkovich) and George (Sinise) find themselves unemployed in Depression-era California, unable to keep jobs because of Lennie's childlike mentality. But once they get hired at the Tyler Ranch, they enjoy a brief period of stability - until their supervisor's wife (Sherilyn Fenn) becomes the victim of Lennie's compassion, forcing George to make a compassionate decision of his own.A strong argument favors Gary Sinise's 1992 Of Mice and Men over the classic 1939 version that critics have historically preferred. As adapted by the great playwright-screenwriter Horton Foote, John Steinbeck's Depression-era masterpiece comes alive with timeless simplicity, more candid in language and behavior, and therefore more honest in its embrace of Steinbeck's beloved pair of lowly dreamers George (Sinise) and his retarded cousin Lennie (John Malkovich). On the lam, they find work as farmhands, joining a close-knit crew and trying to avoid trouble stirred by the dangerously seductive wife (Sherilyn Fenn) of the boss's sadistic son (Casey Siemaszko). There's not a false note or bad performance in the entire film; as veterans of Chicago's acclaimed Steppenwolf Theater, Malkovich and Sinise possess the compassionate chemistry that makes George and Lennie inseparable until the tragic, inevitable final scene. As director, Sinise serves the material with no-frills fidelity; it's easy to believe that Steinbeck would have approved. --Jeff Shannon
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