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A strong argument favors Gary Sinise's 1992 Of Mice and Men over the classic 1939 version that critics have historically preferred. As adapted by the great playwright-screenwriter Horton Foote, John Steinbeck's Depression-era masterpiece comes alive with timeless simplicity, more candid in language and behavior, and therefore more honest in its embrace of Steinbeck's beloved pair of lowly ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Alexis Arquette, Mark Boone Junior, Joe D'Angerio, Sherilyn Fenn, Moira Harris

A videotaped stage performance of Sam Shepard's play. Austin, a Hollywood screenwriter living comfortably in suburban Arizona, is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of his prodigal brother Lee, whose menacing demeanor and pugilistic attitude draws Austin further and further into conflict until he must finally engage his brother in an intense psychological battle for his ideals, and perhaps even ...

Manufacturer: Academy Home Entertainment
Starring: John Malkovich, Gary Sinise
Directed By: Allan Goldstein

Marlow is an ambitious and adventurous sailor who is employed by an English trading company and sent to an African colony. There he travels up the river, visiting the trading stations who barters for ivory with the natives. On his journey he is told about a man named Kurtz whose station is the one furthest up the river, deep in the African jungle. Some talk of him in awe, others in admiration, but ...

Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Starring: Tim Roth, John Malkovich, Isaach De Bankolé, James Fox, Morten Faldaas
Directed By: Nicolas Roeg

Manufacturer: Vestron Video
Starring: Kelly McGillis, Bobby McFerrin, John Malkovich, Glenn Hedley

Paul Newman directed this poetic, sunlight- and memory-drenched film version of Tennessee Williams's classic memory play. The casting is surprisingly adept, considering that several of the performers would seem to be too old for their roles. John Malkovich plays Williams's stand-in, Tom Wingfield, a dreamer who lives with his domineering mother Amanda (a luminous Joanne Woodward) and his fragile, ...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen, James Naughton
Directed By: Paul Newman

A sumptuously mounted and photographed celebration of artful wickedness, betrayal, and sexual intrigue among depraved 18th-century French aristocrats, Dangerous Liaisons (based on Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses) is seductively decadent fun. The villainous heroes are the Marquise De Merteuil (Glenn Close) and the Vicomte De Valmont (John Malkovich), who have cultivated ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Keanu Reeves
Directed By: Stephen Frears

This harrowing but rewarding 1984 drama concerns the real-life relationship between New York Times reporter Sidney Schanberg and his Cambodian assistant Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor), the latter left at the mercy of the Khmer Rouge after Schanberg--who chose to stay after American evacuation but was booted out--failed to get him safe passage. Filmmaker Roland Joffé, previously a documentarist, made ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Craig T. Nelson
Directed By: Roland Joffé

Manufacturer: Embassy/Nelson Ent. - O.B.
Starring: Kate Nelligan, John Malkovich, Linda Hunt, Oliver Cotton, Ronald Pickup
Directed By: Peter Yates

This smart, tautly directed thriller from Wolfgang Petersen is about the cat-and-mouse games between a Secret Service agent named Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) and the brilliant, psychopathic assassin (John Malkovich) who's itching to get the President in his cross hairs. The back-story--Horrigan is haunted by his inability to prevent John Kennedy's assassination (Eastwood is computer-generated into ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole
Directed By: Wolfgang Petersen

Con Air is proof that the slick, absurdly overblown action formula of Hollywood mega-producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun, Days of Thunder, The Rock, Crimson Tide) lives on, even after Simpson's druggy death. (Read Charles Fleming's exposé, High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess, for more about that.) Nicolas Cage, ...

Manufacturer: Buena Vista Pictures
Starring: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Ving Rhames, Nick Chinlund
Directed By: Simon West