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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men 1992 Theatrical Poster
Directed by	Gary Sinise
Produced by	Gary Sinise
Written by	Novel: John Steinbeck Screenplay: Horton Foote
Starring	Gary Sinise John Malkovich Casey Siemaszko Sherilyn Fenn
Music by	Mark Isham
Cinematography	Kenneth MacMillan
Editing by	Robert L. Sinise
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	October 2, 1992
Running time	115 minutes
Language	English
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Of Mice and Men is a 1992 movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise (who also directed). It is the third movie adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel of the same name. The first adaptation was made in 1939, and a made-for-TV movie version was made in 1982. This version is considered by many people the best recreation despite changing a fair degree of the content. The film is rated PG-13 for some scenes of violence although the language is the same as the book.

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

George & Lennie

• George and Lennie are shown sneaking into a train at night to escape from Weed. This was not mentioned in the book.
• The bus is shown to be heading for Tyler Ranch which angers George as the bus driver told him and Lennie to get off the bus earlier on in the movie.
• In the movie, Slim tells George to bring a mule with a sore foot to the barn. Only Curley's wife was around and starts a conversation with George which was later interrupted by Curley. Curley tells her to return to the house and issues a warning to George.
• Though not mentioned in the book, Curley is seen practicing on a punching bag outside his house with his wife watching in boredom.
• A worker named Mike approaches Slim and asks him whether he could switch jobs with someone else as he could not keep up with Lennie. This was not mentioned in the book.
• The conversation between Lennie, Crooks, Candy, and Curley's wife was cut from the movie.
• The part where Lennie hallucinates about Aunt Clara and the giant rabbit was also cut.
• George could not find Lennie in the brush but instead embraced with Lennie in the water.
• In the book, George shoots Lennie with a Luger pistol but in the film he uses a Colt revolver.
• In the end of the film the speech was cut short. In the book, when Lennie got excited and said "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now," George replied, "Sure, right now. I gotta. We gotta," and shot Lennie, instead of saying that they should stay, as he does in the movie.
• At the end of the film Lennie did not have a hat. In the book it is mentioned he does and George tells Lennie, "Take off your hat, Lennie. The air is fine."
• The ending was also changed: in the book, George remains on the ranch, while in the film, George is seen riding alone in yet another boxcar to his next destination in both the introduction and the ending, indicating that George fled after killing Lennie, and is reminiscing on past events during the ride.
• At the end of the novel Slim, Curley and Carlson come to find Lennie dead and George with the gun in his hand. George lies and tells the men that Lennie took Carlson's gun and he tells them that he took the gun away from Lennie and shot him in the back of his neck. The book ends with Slim saying "You hadda, George. I swear you hadda." and the two walking away. Carlson then asks Curley what's bugging the two. This scene was completely cut out of the movie and replaced with George's flashbacks.

• Nominated – Golden Palm: Gary Sinise

• Of Mice and Men at the Internet Movie Database
• Movie stills

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