Of Mice and Men
1939 • 106 min • Drama
Our family guide
Best from age 12- 100 Reviewers · 2 · 51%
- 73 Audience · 105 · 49%
Dois trabalhadores migrantes, um deles com deficiência intelectual, viajam pela Califórnia na era da Depressão sonhando em ter sua própria pequena fazenda. Eles encontram trabalho em um rancho, mas suas esperanças são desafiadas pelas duras realidades e personalidades voláteis que encontram.
- Violence & peril
- 6/10
- Language
- 2/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 3/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 1/10
- Scary moments
- 4/10
Heads up
- Temas de solidão e isolamento.
- Um final trágico envolvendo violência e perda.
- Representações de preconceito e tratamento injusto.
What it models well
- Amizade e lealdade
- O poder dos sonhos
- Compaixão pelos outros
Talk about it after
- Os desafios da vida durante a Grande Depressão.
- A importância da empatia por aqueles que são diferentes.
- O significado da verdadeira amizade e sacrifício.
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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
