The Green Mile (DVD)

This is a 1999 film starring Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecomb who serves as a prison guard at a death row section of a prison and Michael Clark Duncan is 8 ft giant of a man wrongly convicted of rape and murder. Paul tells a friend of the events in 1935 when he worked at the prison and when the giant black man wrongly implicated arrives; this man is some kind of freak or gods special person because he can do miracles like cure people of illness and other supernatural stuff. Coffey is depressed because of the filth and evil that exists in people, he sees it in people and this causes headaches and unwillingness to live. Despite being innocent he doesn't get ...  Read the complete review

This as to be one of the best films of all times that I have every seen and it should be a must buy on anyone's list. The film is set on 'the green mile', the long walk before being executed, and is about John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) who is a gentle giant of a prisoner with supernatural powers and he is arrested and sent to the green mile for the murder of two young girls. It's shows that miracles can happen, even on the death row cell block. Tom Hanks is one of the prison officer and is for me is one of his better performances! The filmmaker is Frank Darabont, who returns after his 1994 directorial debut in The Shawshank Redemption, to adapt ...  Read the complete review

Directed by Frank Darabont and released in 1999, The Green Mile is based on the book of the same title written by Stephen King, and stars Tom Hanks, David Morse, Michael Clarke Duncan, Bonnie Hunt, and James Cromwell. Considered by many to be one of the greatest films of recent times (and nominated for four Academy Awards,) it's safe to say that very few movies have managed to have the impact that The Green Mile has achieved. The bulk of the film takes place in the mid 1930's, and is set on Death Row at Louisiana's Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) is in charge of 'The Green Mile,' and along with his staff, they guard a number of ...  Read the complete review

Following the success (on video at least) of The Shawshank Redemption, another Stephen King/Frank Darabont collaboration seemed likely. The most obvious candidate was the superficially similar prison based drama The Green Mile. The film examines the fate of a number of prisoners on Death Row in a Louisiana prison in the 1930s. This being a Stephen King prison, of course, things are not what they seem. One of the inmates as a pet mouse, another seems to have a very special gift... On first glance, The Green Mile is a daunting prospect, with a running time of over 3 hours. The initial sequences do little to allay these fears either. Set in a old folks ...  Read the complete review

It’s taken me a long time to get round to watching The Green Mile. I don’t know how many times I’ve read great reviews about it on Ciao and Dooyoo and vowed to see it myself someday. I’m not keen on Stephen King or Tom Hanks, so maybe that was partly why I didn’t watch it sooner. Then I saw the DVD on sale cheap about four months ago and bought it. Last night, I finally watched The Green Mile. Wow! What an amazing film. If you haven’t seen it yet, don’t wait as long as I did. THE GREEN MILE – A PLOT REVIEW The film is set in an American prison in the 1930s. Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) is in charge of the prisoners on Death Row ...  Read the complete review