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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $15.99 You Save: $3.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 02 October, 1992 DVD Release : 04 March, 2003 |
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Of Mice & Men description 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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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | A Beautiful Film! |
| I was really pleased with this version of the Steinbeck novel. Gary Sinese did a wonderful job directing this--I had no idea he was so talented. The screenplay by Horton Foote is deeply moving. All of the actors are first rate. Malkovich is quite impressive, never going too far over the line which would be easy to do in such a role. Sinese is very good, too, in a moving performance. (I'm running out of superlatives.) All of the supporting actors and the actress give fine performances.
The setting is really beautiful-- the sunny California farm area, which helps to balance the darkness of the tale. The happier details of their work life--reaping the barley and the horseshoe game, give some notion of the joy of life even while you feel the sense of impending tragedy building up. It's all done very well. The story is not a happy one, as stories go, but there is so much beauty in the relationship between these two men, that it left me teary eyed but not depressed. This is definitely a film worth seeing. Good for kids, too, I think. (Don't mind the woman who objected to the curse words.) |
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