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Of Mice and Men is a 1992
1992 in film

The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. ...
 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 starring John Malkovich
John Malkovich

'John Gavin Malkovich' is an Emmy Award-winning, two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actor, film producer and film director. Over the last 25 years, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures, including Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, Con Air, The Man in the Iron Mask , Rounders , Changelin...
 and Gary Sinise
Gary Sinise

Gary Alan Sinise is an United States actor and film director. During his career, Sinise has won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for Palme d'Or and an Academy Award....
, directed and produced by Sinise. It is the third movie adaptation of John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck III was an American literature. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men, published in 1937....
's 1937 novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
 of the same name
Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize in Literature-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937 in literature, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant worker ranch workers during the Great Depression in California....
. The first adaptation
Of Mice and Men (1939 film)

Of Mice and Men is a 1939 in film film based on the Of Mice and Men of the same title by American author John Steinbeck. It stars Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele and Noah Beery, Jr....
 was made in 1939, and a made-for-TV movie version was produced in 1982.

ge Milton (Gary Sinise
Gary Sinise

Gary Alan Sinise is an United States actor and film director. During his career, Sinise has won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for Palme d'Or and an Academy Award....
) is in a train boxcar, reminiscing upon the events that have just happened. He thinks back to when he and his companion Lennie Small (John Malkovich
John Malkovich

'John Gavin Malkovich' is an Emmy Award-winning, two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actor, film producer and film director. Over the last 25 years, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures, including Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, Con Air, The Man in the Iron Mask , Rounders , Changelin...
) are fleeing from their previous employment in Weed
Weed, California

Weed is a city located in Siskiyou County, California. As of the United States 2000 Census, the town had a total population of 2,978. There are several unincorporated communities adjacent to, or just outside Weed proper....
.






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Of Mice and Men is a 1992
1992 in film

The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. ...
 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 starring John Malkovich
John Malkovich

'John Gavin Malkovich' is an Emmy Award-winning, two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actor, film producer and film director. Over the last 25 years, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures, including Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, Con Air, The Man in the Iron Mask , Rounders , Changelin...
 and Gary Sinise
Gary Sinise

Gary Alan Sinise is an United States actor and film director. During his career, Sinise has won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for Palme d'Or and an Academy Award....
, directed and produced by Sinise. It is the third movie adaptation of John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck III was an American literature. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men, published in 1937....
's 1937 novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
 of the same name
Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize in Literature-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937 in literature, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant worker ranch workers during the Great Depression in California....
. The first adaptation
Of Mice and Men (1939 film)

Of Mice and Men is a 1939 in film film based on the Of Mice and Men of the same title by American author John Steinbeck. It stars Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele and Noah Beery, Jr....
 was made in 1939, and a made-for-TV movie version was produced in 1982.

Plot

George Milton (Gary Sinise
Gary Sinise

Gary Alan Sinise is an United States actor and film director. During his career, Sinise has won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for Palme d'Or and an Academy Award....
) is in a train boxcar, reminiscing upon the events that have just happened. He thinks back to when he and his companion Lennie Small (John Malkovich
John Malkovich

'John Gavin Malkovich' is an Emmy Award-winning, two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actor, film producer and film director. Over the last 25 years, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures, including Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, Con Air, The Man in the Iron Mask , Rounders , Changelin...
) are fleeing from their previous employment in Weed
Weed, California

Weed is a city located in Siskiyou County, California. As of the United States 2000 Census, the town had a total population of 2,978. There are several unincorporated communities adjacent to, or just outside Weed proper....
. They were run out of town after Lennie was accused of attempted rape when he touched a young woman's dress (prompted by his love of stroking soft things). Then George thinks of the events that have recently happened and make up the movie, taking place during the Great Depression
Great Depression

File:International depression.pngThe Great Depression was a worldwide economic Recession starting in most places in 1929 and ending at different times in the 1930s or early 1940s for different countries....
. After running from Weed, George and Lennie are trying to attain their shared dream of settling down on their own piece of land. Lennie's part of the dream, which he never tires of hearing George describe, is merely to have soft rabbits on the farm, which he can pet. The two go to work at a ranch named Tyler Ranch.

At the ranch, the dream appears to move closer to reality. Candy (Ray Walston
Ray Walston

Ray Walston was an American Stage , television and feature film actor who played the title character on the situation comedy My Favorite Martian and Judge Henry Bone on the drama series Picket Fences....
), the aged, one-handed ranch-hand
Cowboy

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks....
, offers to pitch in with Lennie and George so they can buy the farm. The dream disappears when Lennie accidentally kills the young and attractive wife (Sherilyn Fenn
Sherilyn Fenn

Sherilyn Fenn is an Emmy Award- and Golden Globe award-nominated United States actress. She came to international attention for her performance on the 1990 cult television TV series Twin Peaks....
) of Curley (Casey Siemaszko
Casey Siemaszko

Casey Siemaszko is an United States actor.Siemaszko was born in Chicago, Illinois to a Polish American father and an English mother. His most well-known film roles are Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part II as 3-D, Stand By Me as Billy Tessio, Young Guns as Charley Bowdre and as Curley in Of Mice and Men ....
), the ranch owner's son, while trying to stroke her hair. A lynch mob led by Curley gathers. Realizing he is doomed to a life of loneliness and despair like the rest of the migrant workers, and wanting to spare Lennie a painful death at the hands of the vengeful and violent Curley, George shoots Lennie in the back of the head before the mob can find him. The film closes with the opening scene of George reminiscing in the train boxcar.

Cast

  • John Malkovich
    John Malkovich

    'John Gavin Malkovich' is an Emmy Award-winning, two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actor, film producer and film director. Over the last 25 years, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures, including Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, Con Air, The Man in the Iron Mask , Rounders , Changelin...
     as Lennie Small
  • Gary Sinise
    Gary Sinise

    Gary Alan Sinise is an United States actor and film director. During his career, Sinise has won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for Palme d'Or and an Academy Award....
     as George Milton
  • Ray Walston
    Ray Walston

    Ray Walston was an American Stage , television and feature film actor who played the title character on the situation comedy My Favorite Martian and Judge Henry Bone on the drama series Picket Fences....
     as Candy
  • Casey Siemaszko
    Casey Siemaszko

    Casey Siemaszko is an United States actor.Siemaszko was born in Chicago, Illinois to a Polish American father and an English mother. His most well-known film roles are Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part II as 3-D, Stand By Me as Billy Tessio, Young Guns as Charley Bowdre and as Curley in Of Mice and Men ....
     as Curley
  • Sherilyn Fenn
    Sherilyn Fenn

    Sherilyn Fenn is an Emmy Award- and Golden Globe award-nominated United States actress. She came to international attention for her performance on the 1990 cult television TV series Twin Peaks....
     as Curley's Wife
  • John Terry
    John Terry (actor)

    John Terry is an United States film, TV, and stage actor....
     as Slim
  • Alexis Arquette
    Alexis Arquette

    Alexis Arquette is an United States transwoman actor, musician, and cabaret drag performer....
     as Whit
  • Richard Riehle
    Richard Riehle

    Richard Riehle is an United States actor....
     as Carlson
  • Joe Morton
    Joe Morton

    Joseph Morton, Jr. is an American stage, television, and film actor....
     as Crooks
  • Noble Willingham
    Noble Willingham

    Noble Henry Willingham, Jr. was an United States television and film actor....
     as The Boss


Release

The movie was released onto DVD
DVD

DVD, also known as "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc,"is a popular optical disc data storage device media format. Its main uses are video and data storage....
 by MGM March 4th, 2003. The DVD is featured in widescreen
Widescreen

A widescreen image is a film, computer or television image with a wider and shorter aspect ratio than the standard Academy frame developed during the classical Hollywood cinema era....
 with english, french, and spanish subtitles.

Reception


Awards and nominations

1992 Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival , founded in 1946, is one of the world's oldest, most influential and prestigious film festivals alongside Venice Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival....
  • Nominated – Palme d'Or
    Palme d'Or

    The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
    : Gary Sinise
    Gary Sinise

    Gary Alan Sinise is an United States actor and film director. During his career, Sinise has won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for Palme d'Or and an Academy Award....
     


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