The Green Mile

5.00
    The Green Mile
    1999

    Synopsis

    A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

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    Cast

    • Tom HanksPaul Edgecomb
    • Michael Clarke DuncanJohn Coffey
    • David MorseBrutus "Brutal" Howell
    • Bonnie HuntJan Edgecomb
    • Michael JeterEduard Delacroix
    • Doug HutchisonPercy Wetmore
    • Sam Rockwell'Wild Bill' Wharton
    • James CromwellWarden Hal Moores
    • Barry PepperDean Stanton
    • Graham GreeneArlen Bitterbuck

    Recommendations

    • 100

      TNT RoughCut

      So moving, so memorable, so magically produced, it's going to delight millions of movie fans and sweep the Oscars.
    • 80

      Film.com

      Darabont follows King's book fairly closely, allowing the audience to steep itself in the setting and characters slowly, like reading a good novel.
    • 75

      Boston Globe

      There's almost too much there, but the three-hour-plus film permits the kind of detailing that not only brings the storytelling to life, but sometimes persuades us we're breathing to its rhythms.
    • 75

      Portland Oregonian

      An often pedestrian film, one that never inflates to the epic grandeur to which it aspires or transfers its own emotional trajectory off the screen and into the viewer.
    • 75

      Entertainment Weekly

      Excessive, but I, like Mr. Jingles, can't resist the Christmas-season cheese.
    • 75

      Miami Herald

      A very engrossing movie, the kind that gives shameless manipulation a good name.
    • 70

      The New York Times

      A film with a counterproductive tendency to take its time...but unassumingly strong, moving performances and Darabont's durable storytelling make it a trip worth taking just the same.
    • 63

      Philadelphia Inquirer

      Surely a life sentence goes by quicker.

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