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The Green Mile

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The Green Mile (1999)

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Reviews Counted: 116 Fresh: 92  Rotten:24 Average Rating: 6.8/10
 
Consensus: Though The Green Mile is long, critics say it's an absorbing, emotionally powerful experience.
 

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Runtime: 3 hrs 20 mins

Synopsis: "The Green Mile" is told in a flashback narrated by Paul Edgecomb to his friend Elaine Connelly. Edgecomb is now living in an old-age home some six decades after working as the head guard on Death Row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Edgecomb’s tour of duty at Cold Mountain in the... "The Green Mile" is told in a flashback narrated by Paul Edgecomb to his friend Elaine Connelly. Edgecomb is now living in an old-age home some six decades after working as the head guard on Death Row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary.

Edgecomb’s tour of duty at Cold Mountain in the Depression-era South included watch over a quartet of killers awaiting their final walk down "the Green Mile," the stretch of green linoleum flooring that took convicts from their jail cells to the electric chair.

Over the years, Edgecomb walked the mile with a variety of cons. He had never before encountered someone like John Coffey, a massive black man convicted of brutally killing a pair of nine-year-old sisters. Coffey certainly had the size and strength to kill anyone, but his demeanor starkly contrasted with his appearance. Beyond his simple, naive nature and a deathly fear of the dark, Coffey seemed to possess a prodigious, supernatural gift. Edgecomb began to question whether Coffey was truly guilty of murdering the two girls.

As the story unfolds, Paul Edgecomb learns that, sometimes, miracles happen in the most unexpected places. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, James Cromwell

Director: Frank Darabont
Screenwriter: Frank Darabont
Producer: David Valdes, Frank Darabont
Composer: Thomas Newman

DVD Info

Release:

May 15, 2007

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Surround 5.1 English

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Dotted with many fine moments, clotted with a few flabby ones.

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02/14/08
Rob Gonsalves
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Overextending its welcome by a whole hour, Frank Darabont's film is the most commercially popular adaptation of a Stephen King novella, but also the dullest and slowest, a retro prison drama with something for everyone and not much for discerning viewers

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02/05/08
Emanuel Levy
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7/10

...mildly entertaining and in some ways a little frustrating.

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11/15/06
John J. Puccio
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06/24/06
Derek Adams
Time Out
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Although The Green Mile is a satisfying and affecting movie, it's not The Shawshank Redemption -- not by a long shot.

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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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12/06/05
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Mr. Jingles was robbed! (no mouse-Oscar)

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01/01/05
Staci Layne Wilson
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Is this movie making an argument for euthanasia and suicide? Should nice folks have the option of giving up the ghost when they get tired of the world's problems?

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12/06/04
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer
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3.5/4

Of all the movies based on King novels, The Green Mile ranks near the top -- but below Darabont's first, The Shawshank Redemption.

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06/26/04
Judith Egerton
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
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01/24/04
Mark Freeman
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04/25/03
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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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A deeply racist movie, though clearly none of the filmmakers thinks so... By the picture's end, we are asked to grasp electrocution as in some way an act of benevolence.

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01/10/03
Nick Davis
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12/02/02
Rob White
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11/06/02
Jeff Strickler
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10/30/02
Ben De Haan
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10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
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10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
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09/10/02
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal
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