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The Green Mile

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The Green Mile (1999)

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Reviews Counted:129

Fresh:100

Rotten:29

Average Rating:6.8/10

Consensus: Though The Green Mile is long, critics say it's an absorbing, emotionally powerful experience.

Runtime: 3 hrs 20 mins

Genre: Dramas

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... "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]

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

Starring: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, James Cromwell, Michael Jeter, Sam Rockwell, Barry Pepper, Graham Greene, Doug Hutchison, Jeffrey DeMunn, Patricia Clarkson, Harry Dean Stanton, Dabbs Greer, Eve Brent, William Sadler, Gary Sinise

Director: Frank Darabont

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

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Surpasses mere adequacy in so many ways just within the first hour that it will undoubtably be praised to the highest extent.

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01/01/00
Greg Muskewitz
Greg Muskewitz
eFilmCritic.com

The Green Mile is another of King’s non-horror stories to be adapted to film, and it’s good one.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
01/01/00
Guy MacPherson
Guy MacPherson
Apollo Guide

This picture is, like the cigarette of the old-time commercials, worth walking a mile for.

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01/01/00
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

Over the epic running time the film inches its way through a complex soap opera of events on the Row, punctuated by three pivotal and grisly executions via 'Old Sparky,' the electric chair.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
01/01/00
Ian Nathan
Ian Nathan
Empire Magazine

A thoroughly absorbing supernatural fairytale about good and evil living under the same roof.

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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
UK Critic

The production design -- with much Southern period detail and '30s music -- helps brings The Green Mile to life.

Full Review Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jack Garner
Jack Garner
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

An affecting motion picture.

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James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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an entertaining, extremely well-produced drama. It's also a film that's likely to be enormously overrated by the millions of members of the Cult of Tom...

Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | comment Comment
01/01/00
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

Unassumingly strong, moving performances and Darabont's durable storytelling make it a trip worth taking.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
01/01/00
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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Although the current production runs three hours, I wasn't really bored at any point.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jay Boyar
Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel

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.

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Jay Carr
Jay Carr
Boston Globe
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Laughter and tears are both subtly drawn out and jack-hammered home.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
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Jeanne Aufmuth
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly

Moves pretty well and doesn't really drag, though superb performances from the leads help to keep it compelling.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Easily one of the better films -- if not the best -- of the year.

Full Review Source: Screen It! | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jim Judy
Jim Judy
Screen It!

Duncan gives the novel's towering symbol of innocence a degree of dignity and humanity that sells the whole unlikely fable.

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

This film is slow, drawn-out, boring, uninteresting, unexciting, predictable and topped with a couple of one-dimensional 'evil' characters.

Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | comment Comment
01/01/00
JoBlo
JoBlo
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

Superior craft is something we've come to expect from modern movies, but not soul. It's the soul of this movie that's so heartening.

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
01/01/00
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

Provides all the sturdy entertainment of any well-calculated crime drama.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
01/01/00
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday
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The Green Mile is more than an hour old before anything like a plot develops, and then it turns out to be such a sentimental-supernatural whopper that even Tom Hanks, usually the most casually credible of actors, is severely tested.

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John Hartl
John Hartl
Film.com
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A textured, character-driven story.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
01/01/00
John Paul Powell
John Paul Powell
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