text: The gentle giant plays with a tiny mouse-- Of Mice and Men . The stricken executioner gets blessed by his beatific sacrifice-- Billy Budd . You could add a score of prison movies , along with E.T. ( 1982 ) , Starman ( 1984 ) , and even some vigilante pictures .
  
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  In Of Mice and Men , a gentle giant plays with a tiny turtle .