Two men, one mentally disabled (John Malkovich), the other (Gary Sinise, who also directed the movie) who swears to take care of the simple, but physically powerful man.

The two begin working on a farm, where "Lenny"...
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Two men, one mentally disabled (John Malkovich), the other (Gary Sinise, who also directed the movie) who swears to take care of the simple, but physically powerful man.

The two begin working on a farm, where "Lenny" (Malkovich) struggles to behave, as well as to try to remember that he has to be gentle as to not hurt anybody or anything since he is more physically gifted than mentally. All the while, "George" (Sinise) tries to put himself between "Lenny" and those around him to protect his traveling companion.

Based on the John Steinbeck book, of which I did not read, this is actually a pretty good movie with some pretty strong performances.

In fact, the performances are the only reason to watch this movie. The entire cast is near perfect. Malkovich and Sinise has pretty good chemistry as the two lead characters. Personally, I liked Sinise better than Malkovich, neither of which are my favorite actors.

There are also some strong performances from various members of the supporting cast. However, it appears that many of them were not given a lot to work with.

If you have not read the book, you may not think that the supporting cast was given much. I didn't think so either since I've never read the book. Personally, I would have liked to have seen a few of the supporting characters more.

There is some good chemistry with this cast, some better than others. You can really see where the chemistry was best by the scenes with the strongest performances.

The soundtrack is completely lacking in this film. In fact, I think I remember only one piece of music near the end of this film. And it sounded like they turned the volume down on that little piece of music that is completely forgettable.

The wardrobes, and other period pieces seen in this film, looks very authentic. It didn't appear that they tried to make it look like period clothing, it looked pretty authentic. They even went as far as making the clothing look like they were worn for some time, with little washing.

There is no spectacular camera work in this film. There are a couple of foot chases in here with some quick editing. The lighting is used well, and the angles are done nicely. There's just nothing memorable in any of the shots.

If you are looking for action, there isn't any worth looking for. This is pure drama, with no explosions or gun play.

Maybe because I never read the book, I kept looking away from my computer screen (I watched it on Hulu) because I was getting bored. If you haven't read the book, the only reason to see this is for the performances.

There is no reason to see this movie except for the peformances. In fact, I didn't even know it existed until it came up on my Hulu recommendations list. I am more familiar with the Lon Chaney, Jr./Bergess Merrideth version. This movie is only worth seeing once.

I do suggest that you read the book so you know what is going on. In fact, you may like it better if you familiarize yourself with the source material first.

Many books adaptions seemed to a success or failure in the past years, Of Mice and Men is close to be a great one but still it has some flaws in it. Written by an accomplish book writer, who wrote Grapes of Wrath, John Steinback, he created a...
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Many books adaptions seemed to a success or failure in the past years, Of Mice and Men is close to be a great one but still it has some flaws in it. Written by an accomplish book writer, who wrote Grapes of Wrath, John Steinback, he created a world that is moving. Now after one spin-off of the recent film version of John Steinback's Of Mice and Men directed by Gary Sinise, who was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. He creates a feel and the sense of the goodess in everyone's hearts.

Gary Sinise who recently did Open Season, The Big Bounce, CSI:NY and The Forgotten. He won a Emmy and Golden Globe winning, Golden Palm and Academy Award nominated American actor and film director. In 1992, he directed the film and played the role of George Milton in the movie adaption of Of Mice and Men. Sinise was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1994 for his role as Lieutenant Dan Taylor in Forrest Gump. He won a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries for his role in Truman. In 1996, he played a corrupt cop in the Ron Howard dramatic hit Ransom. In 1998, Sinise was awarded an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for George Wallace.

Two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression – George Milton(Gary Sinise), small in stature, intelligent, and cynical, but caring, and Lennie Small(John Malkovich), a physically strong, but mentally limited man – come to a ranch in Soledad, California to "work up a stake". They are fleeing from their previous employment in Weed.[3] There, the childlike Lennie has been run out of town (with George accompanying him) because Lennie, who loves to stroke soft things, tried to stroke a girl's dress; she thought he was trying to molest her. Once they are out of town and into safety, they hope one day to carry on with fulfilling their shared dream of settling down on their own piece of land. Lennie's part of the dream, of which he never tires being recounted by George, is merely to have soft rabbits on the farm, which he can pet. George tries to keep Lennie out of trouble by telling him that if he gets into trouble he won't let him "tend them rabbits."

Gary Sinise who directed and played the role as George Milton, did a good not great job on getting most of the dialouge in the film, while the book contains only about a hundred pages long, he still did a good job fitting it in. Well some of the dialouge are missing, its still good to hear most of the dialouge. The universe that Gary Sinise remaded in this film, is funounable, its a great distinct feeling from the book. The performances in the film is kinda much like in the book, you can almost feel and understand the characters and it tends to be moving. Gary Sinise(George Milton) delivers a fanastic job on acting like George, while sometimes his acting isn't that good other times i went great but not perfect. Like Gary Sinise's character, John Malkovich(Lennie Small) played the role in between, its neither good or bad, he captures the feeling of Lennie Small. Overall, Of Mice and Men(Gary Sinise's adaption) delivers a warming experience for everyone. Soon in the film, you can feel and understand, the character's role better, and the nostaglic is very high. The ending is kinda tragic to see a guy dead(whoops, I spilled it but what are you going to do?) on the ground. It also is hilarious at times just like in the book. I personally enjoyed the book more than the movie. This movie is close to getting a eight but it doesn't deserve it. Fans and viewers should be cautious of this one. Enjoy it while you can. This is a Recommended Purhcase, just nearly. 7.8/10

Many books adaptions seemed to a success or failure in the past years, Of Mice and Men is close to be a great one but still it has some flaws in it. Written by an accomplish book writer, who wrote Grapes of Wrath, John Steinback, he created a...
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Many books adaptions seemed to a success or failure in the past years, Of Mice and Men is close to be a great one but still it has some flaws in it. Written by an accomplish book writer, who wrote Grapes of Wrath, John Steinback, he created a world that is moving. Now after one spin-off of the recent film version of John Steinback's Of Mice and Men directed by Gary Sinise, who was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. He creates a feel and the sense of the goodess in everyone's hearts.

Gary Sinise who recently did Open Season, The Big Bounce, CSI:NY and The Forgotten. He won a Emmy and Golden Globe winning, Golden Palm and Academy Award nominated American actor and film director. In 1992, he directed the film and played the role of George Milton in the movie adaption of Of Mice and Men. Sinise was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1994 for his role as Lieutenant Dan Taylor in Forrest Gump. He won a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries for his role in Truman. In 1996, he played a corrupt cop in the Ron Howard dramatic hit Ransom. In 1998, Sinise was awarded an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for George Wallace.

Two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression – George Milton(Gary Sinise), small in stature, intelligent, and cynical, but caring, and Lennie Small(John Malkovich), a physically strong, but mentally limited man – come to a ranch in Soledad, California to "work up a stake". They are fleeing from their previous employment in Weed.[3] There, the childlike Lennie has been run out of town (with George accompanying him) because Lennie, who loves to stroke soft things, tried to stroke a girl's dress; she thought he was trying to molest her. Once they are out of town and into safety, they hope one day to carry on with fulfilling their shared dream of settling down on their own piece of land. Lennie's part of the dream, of which he never tires being recounted by George, is merely to have soft rabbits on the farm, which he can pet. George tries to keep Lennie out of trouble by telling him that if he gets into trouble he won't let him "tend them rabbits."

Gary Sinise who directed and played the role as George Milton, did a good not great job on getting most of the dialouge in the film, while the book contains only about a hundred pages long, he still did a good job fitting it in. Well some of the dialouge are missing, its still good to hear most of the dialouge. The universe that Gary Sinise remaded in this film, is funounable, its a great distinct feeling from the book. The performances in the film is kinda much like in the book, you can almost feel and understand the characters and it tends to be moving. Gary Sinise(George Milton) delivers a fanastic job on acting like George, while sometimes his acting isn't that good other times i went great but not perfect. Like Gary Sinise's character, John Malkovich(Lennie Small) played the role in between, its neither good or bad, he captures the feeling of Lennie Small. Although, Gary Sinise did a good job on portraying the characters in the book. They are not that well portraying as themselves. Sinise also did a narration on the book and its quite good at say it at least. The previous adaption of this book by Steinback created a magical world of, "Of Mice and Men." And Sinise provided more essence to it, the most haunting scene is when after Curley socked him badly and Lennie squeezed his armed until he is unable to use that arm, when George is cleaning up Lennie. And its indeed sad to see that. In the book, there were forementioned themes in different perceptives of each character in the movie, Sinise added that formula and done it well. The friendship bond between George and Lennie is eagerly good at this movie. Many people questioned how and why they got to be in this friendship. As well as friendship, loneliness takes part of it, like George say: "Guys like us, are the loneliness guys in the world. They don't have a life, a family and they can't go anywhere." Its a differenate between the characters in the ranch and George and Lennie because they got a future than anyone elses. Granted, its indeed a long time lesson that will be in out hearts forever. As well as, the actors portrayed as their roles, Whit didn't make quite much of dialogue as he has few. The ending of the movie is what I got into confusion. Now, the ending of John Steinback's book shed some tears but this didn't capture the drama and tragedy of Lennie and George.

Overall, Of Mice and Men(Gary Sinise's adaption) delivers a warming experience for everyone. Soon in the film, you can feel and understand, the character's role better, and the nostaglic is very high. The ending is kinda tragic to see a guy dead(whoops, I spilled it but what are you going to do?) on the ground. It also is hilarious at times just like in the book. I personally enjoyed the book more than the movie. This movie is close to getting a eight but it doesn't deserve it. Fans and viewers should be cautious of this one. Enjoy it while you can. This is a Recommended Purhcase, just nearly. 7.8/10