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Of Mice and Men. 1992 · 1 hr 51 min. PG-13. Drama. In this adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic novel, a migrant worker looks after his dimwitted, gentle-giant friend during the Great Depression. Subtitles: English.
- Gary Sinise
- January 1, 1992
- 111 min
- The Predatory Nature of Human Existence
- Fraternity and The Idealized Male Friendship
- The Impossibility of The American Dream
- Fallenness
- Freedom vs. Captivity
- Fear
Of Mice and Menteaches a grim lesson about the nature of human existence. Nearly all of the characters, including George, Lennie, Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife, admit, at one time or another, to having a profound sense of loneliness and isolation. Each desires the comfort of a friend, but will settle for the attentive ear of a stranger. Curley’s...
One of the reasons that the tragic end of George and Lennie’s friendship has such a profound impact is that one senses that the friends have, by the end of the novella, lost a dream larger than themselves. The farm on which George and Lennie plan to live—a place that no one ever reaches—has a magnetic quality, as Crooks points out. After hearing a ...
Most of the characters in Of Mice and Menadmit, at one point or another, to dreaming of a different life. Before her death, Curley’s wife confesses her desire to be a movie star. Crooks, bitter as he is, allows himself the pleasant fantasy of hoeing a patch of garden on Lennie’s farm one day, and Candy latches on desperately to George’s vision of o...
Drawing on the biblical story of the Fall in which Adam and Eve sin in the Garden of Eden,Of Mice and Men argues that the social and economic world in which its characters live is fundamentally flawed. The novella opens by an Eden-like pool that is presented as a natural paradise. People visit, but they do not own the land and they share its resour...
Of Mice and Menillustrates how working-class people possess little meaningful freedom and are often held captive by their circumstances. Both George and Lennie feel that the ranch “ain’t no good place,” but they have to stay because they “can’t help it”; they are victims of a society that idealizes the American Dream, but doesn’t give people many o...
Most every character in Of Mice and Men lives in fear. As the novella opens, George and Lennie have just fled from an attempted lynching in Weed, and when they arrive at the ranch Lennie intuits that it “ain’t no good place” and wants to leave. Candy fears suffering the same end as his dog, who was killed after Carlson deemed it too old and weak to...
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- Gary Sinise
- PG-13
- 29
The film explores themes of discrimination, loneliness, and the American Dream, as well as the desire for a place to call home. Of Mice and Men took part in the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, where Sinise was nominated for the Palme d'Or award, given to the director of the best-featured film.
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Jan 22, 2019 · The characters in Of Mice and Men work on a ranch—one of the most fundamental examples of humans exerting control over the natural world. Lennie and George's desire to own land again reinforces this theme; their image of success and fulfillment involves dominance over nature.
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Oct 2, 1992 · In John Steinbeck’s novel “Of Mice and Men,” made into an enduringly popular movie, the lines about the rabbits have became emblems for the whole relationship between George and Lennie — the quiet-spoken farm laborer and the sweet, retarded cousin he has taken under his arm.
