*Bang* I"ve Killed You.

Take a mentally handicapped man, and a dedicated best friend, and hope you have a brilliantly diversed story. Then give that retarded man a puppy, and allow him to kill it, along with multiple mice, and possibly a woman, and there you have it, no longer do you have that heart warming story of friendship, but a brutal killer, and he's too dumb to know it.
Take Lennie Small, a man of rare intelligence, or none at all, and give him a traveling partner, George Milton, a vile yet pathetic care taker, put them in the dusty depression and set them off to work, where they are faced with obstacles of people from short man syndrome and hidden loneliness of a desperate housewife. This movie allowed John Malkovich to show off his rapist stares and down syndrome speech, in hopes to capture your attention as a murderous, slow man. He was accompanied by Gary Sinise, talented in the way of a grunt and shrug with the persona of being a jerk. These actors did the novella by John Steinbeck no justice for character depth when they simply skimmed the surface of understanding of the novel. Directer, Horton Foote, allowed Steinbeck to make a fool out of character Lennie Small, by allowing him to be dumb like log. When rating this movie, I'd give it 1 hand of vaceline out of a possible 10 shot dead dogs, for that is about as much sence this story made to me.