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Director: Gary Sinise
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From Time Out Film Guide
Sinise's second crack at directing, with a Horton Foote adaptation of the John Steinbeck Depression era novel - about innocently lethal retard Lenny (Malkovich) and his increasingly despairing protector George (Sinise) - which seems doomed to remain a period piece. Big Lenny likes stroking soft things, and nags George to describe life on their fantasy farm while they labour as ranch-hands under the tyrannical Curly (Siemaszko). Lenny crunches Curly's fist to pulp in his paw, and over-responds to the come-ons from Curly's wife (Fenn). It's hard not to snigger at her arching about and complaining of the heat, and harder still to believe Malkovich's shamble and gape, a simian variant on Dustin Hoffman's Rain Man. Both are strictly Dogpatch caricatures, while Sinise seems plain vain.Author: BC
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- hakim said...
- Posted on Jan 13 2009 06:25 for me this is the best play of Jhon Malkovich...being Leny, a gigantic man with rat brain. The story (Jhon Steinbeck) so satiric and both Sinise and Malkovich plays were so excellent
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Cast & crew
Director: Gary Sinise
Producer: Russ Smith, Gary Sinise
Cast: John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko, Sherilyn Fenn, John Terry, Alexis Arquette, Joe Morton, Noble Willingham full cast
Duration: 111 mins
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