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.
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.
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
Reviews for The Green Mile
Suffice it to say you must be willing to buy some pretty incredible stuff if you want to enjoy this experience.
If this movie doesn't get a truckload of Oscar noms, something's rotten in the kingdom of Hollywood!
Quando a história chega ao fim e as luzes se acendem, você sente que, de certa forma, o filme permanecerá com você por muito tempo.
Those whose lives Coffey touches may find relief from physical ailments, but they seem no freer, more hopeful, or nobler for the experience.
Duncan’s beautiful performance is worth at least three hours of anyone’s life.
What better place to witness healing than in a death-chamber where the malevolent an eye-for-an eye philosophy of justice reigns.
What better place to witness healing than in a death-chamber where the malevolent an eye-for-an eye philosophy of justice reigns.
For all its attention to John's victimization -- and exacting an emotional response from its audience -- the film takes a surprisingly schizophrenic view of capital punishment.
Hanks is in fine form, as is Sam Rockwell, as 'Wild Bill' Wharton, a new inmate so repulsively evil he's almost a cartoon (not quite, though).
I'd be critical of the fact that Frank Darabont's entire directorial career has revolved around sweepingly sentimental movies based on Stephen King prison dramas -- if only he didn't do them so well.
A moving story, helped by some great performances, primarily by Michael Clarke Duncan as Coffey, Hanks, Hutchison as the guards, and Jeter and Rockwell as prisoners.
A cracking good yarn that earns its laughter, its wonder and its tears.
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