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www.boxoffice.com - : Though considered less ''definitive'' than the original 1939 Lewis Milestone film starring Burgess Meredith and Lon Chaney, Jr., Gary Sinese's 1992 adaptation of Steinbeck's ''Of Mice And Men'' is every bit its predecessor's equal. Sinese himself co-produced, directed and starred in the film as George with John Malkovich brilliantly cast as Lennie. It's a powerful, literate job of adaptation, too, from none other than Horton Foote, very much the Steinbeck of another generation. The result is so staggeringly close to the novel that it verges on transcendent, making one wonder why Gary Sinese so rarely makes the jump to directing or producing. Perhaps it has something to do with the reception the film received from slobbish American audiences who failed to echo the appreciation that attendees at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival lavished on the movie. more...
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www.washingtonpost.com - : Certainly producer/director Gary Sinise's ''Of Mice and Men,'' set in picturesque California wheatfields, has the in-built advantage of John Steinbeck's great novel to work from. But weighty tomes often pose greater adaptative problems than they're worth. What's great about ''Of Mice and Men''-the-movie is how a dusty 1937 novel is given life, as if this Depression-era story of migrant workers were written just yesterday for the screen. That's what classics were made for -- to be passed on. more...
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