Of Mice and Men

Sep 16, 1992

1h 51m

★ 7.3

We have a dream. Someday, we'll have a little house and a couple of acres. A place to call home.

Overview

Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Russ Smith/Gary Sinise Productions

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Cast

Lennie Small

John Malkovich

George Milton

Gary Sinise

Candy

Ray Walston

Curley

Casey Siemaszko

Curley's Wife

Sherilyn Fenn

Slim

John Terry

Carlson

Richard Riehle

Whitt

Alexis Arquette

Crooks

Joe Morton

The Boss

Noble Willingham

Jack

Joe D'Angerio

Mike

Tuck Milligan

This Hungarian film chronicles the slow deterioration in the life of Juli, a farmer's wife. As the countryside grows ever more deserted because people are moving to towns or large collective farms, she spends more and more time alone. Despite her best efforts to appreciate her situation, her despair grows. The loneliness is briefly interrupted when she and her husband take in an old woman and care for her, but the woman dies. Shortly after her son visits, she is killed in an accident which may have been a suicide. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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