Des souris et des hommes
1939 • 106 min • Drama
Our family guide
Best from age 12- 100 Reviewers · 2 · 51%
- 73 Audience · 105 · 49%
Deux travailleurs migrants, dont l'un est déficient intellectuel, parcourent la Californie de l'ère de la Grande Dépression, rêvant de leur propre petite ferme. Ils trouvent du travail dans un ranch, mais leurs espoirs sont mis à l'épreuve par les dures réalités et les personnalités volatiles qu'ils rencontrent.
- Violence & peril
- 6/10
- Language
- 2/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 3/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 1/10
- Scary moments
- 4/10
Heads up
- Thèmes de la solitude et de l'isolement.
- Une fin tragique impliquant violence et perte.
- Représentations de préjugés et de traitements injustes.
What it models well
- Amitié et loyauté
- Le pouvoir des rêves
- Compassion envers autrui
Talk about it after
- Les défis de la vie pendant la Grande Dépression.
- L'importance de l'empathie envers ceux qui sont différents.
- La signification de la véritable amitié et du sacrifice.
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Top billed cast
Director: Lewis Milestone • Crew: Eugene Solow
Trailers & clips
OF MICE AND MEN 1939 Faux Trailer
Reviewer notes
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersAside from a few relatively minor adjustments to accommodate the censors, this is a pretty faithful screen adaptation of John Steinbeck's really wonderful book. Burgess Meredith is super as "George", who is travelling from job to job with his gentle giant pal "George" (an equally good Lon Chaney Jnr.…
RecommendedThis movie version of Steinbeck's short novel, Of Mice and Men, is stellar. It stays very close to the original story, and fills out the characters in the book very nicely. Lon Chaney Jr. plays Lennie, who is simple-minded, trusting and sees the world in black and white terms. Burgess Meredith plays George, his companion and caretaker, who alternates between cruelty and tenderness in his treatment of Lennie.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 7.3/10 (105)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- IMDb
- tt0031742
