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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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It's hard to be affected by The Green Mile, for it rarely offers much background on any of its characters beyond their Central Casting pigeonholes.

Full Review Source: culturevulture.net | comment Comment
01/01/00
Bob Aulert
Bob Aulert
culturevulture.net

The quickest 180 minutes you will ever spend in a movie theater.

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment Comment
01/01/00
Bob Bloom
Bob Bloom
rec.arts.movies.reviews

So well-crafted that it seems like a feast, even when your brain is telling you that this story could not possibly be stretched any thinner.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
01/01/00
Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

The worst I can say about this thoroughly decent movie is that it botches some of the most important scenes.

Full Review Source: Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus | comment Comment
01/01/00
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

Though watchable and occasionally moving... it strains credibility and patience

Full Review Source: AboutFilm.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Carlo Cavagna
Carlo Cavagna
AboutFilm.com

Unfolds slowly, but Darabont shows a deft sense of pacing.

Full Review Source: Citysearch | comment Comment
01/01/00
Chris Scantleberry
Chris Scantleberry
Citysearch

There's plenty here to make you laugh and cry.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

Stephen King's serial novel has been superbly adapted.

Full Review Source: CinemaSense.Com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Cornell & Petricelli
Cornell & Petricelli
CinemaSense.Com

A lumbering, self-important three-hour melodrama that defies credibility at every turn.

Full Review Source: Newsweek | comment Comment
01/01/00
David Ansen
David Ansen
Newsweek

The cinematic equivalent of a good cop/bad cop work-over.

Full Review Source: IFilm | comment Comment
01/01/00
David Chute
David Chute
IFilm

A groaning ordeal.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
01/01/00
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

If only there was a death row for movies...

Full Review Source: Cinemaphile.org | comment Comment
01/01/00
David Keyes
David Keyes
Cinemaphile.org

Hanks adds another small masterpiece to his growing body of American portraits.

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01/01/00
David L. Beck
David L. Beck
San Jose Mercury News

Its 188 minutes of viewing time seemed like a life sentence.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
01/01/00
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Brilliant storytelling!

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
01/01/00
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post

It's just too bad, then, that the finale could not have been stronger. It downgrades a potentially great film to being, at most, a very good one.

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01/01/00
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

Frank Darabont is such a committed filmmaker, and believes so earnestly and intensely in the stories he puts onscreen, that it seems unsporting to point out that hokum is his middle name.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
01/01/00
Edward Guthmann
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle

E.T. on Death Row.

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01/01/00
Edward Johnson-Ott
Edward Johnson-Ott
NUVO Newsweekly

The Green Mile is just about one of the finest films I have seen since Life is Beautiful.

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01/01/00
Emily Blunt
Emily Blunt
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Eugene Novikov
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