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Of Mice And Men


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  Of Mice And Men Review
Tookey's Rating
4 /10
 
Average Rating
5.86 /10
 
Starring
John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston
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Directed by: Gary Sinise
Written by: Horton Foote

 
 
 
Released: 1992
   
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Origin: US
   
Colour: C
   
Length: 110
 
 


 
Two ranch-hands - one of them (John Malkovich) simple - try to find work in California during the Depression.
Reviewed by Chris Tookey

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Remake of Hal Roach's black and white film. Gary Sinise and John Malkovich give fine performances (although some critics found the latter mannered and theatrical as Lenny, the gentle giant). And Sinise's direction of camera and actors is assured: he even gets a decent performance out of Sherilyn Fenn. The trouble is that today John Steinbeck's tragic story about two itinerant farm-workers seems relentlessly doom-laden. The film ends up as just a little bit pedestrian and dull.


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