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The Green Mile
The Green Mile is a 1999 American epic fantasy drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and based on the 1996 novel by Stephen King. It stars Tom Hanks as a death row prison guard during the Great Depression who witnesses supernatural events following the arrival of an enigmatic convict (Michael Clarke Duncan) at his facility.
Plot
In 1935, corrections officer Paul Edgecomb oversees "The Green Mile," the death row section of Cold Mountain Penitentiary, alongside officers Brutus Howell, Dean Stanton, Harry Terwilliger, and the sadistic and despised Percy Wetmore, whose connections to the state governor shield him from punishment. The guards supervise three prisoners: Eduard "Del" Delacroix, who is frequently tormented by Percy; the violent and erratic William Wharton; and John Coffey, a hulking yet gentle and simple-minded African-American man convicted of raping and murdering two white girls after being found distraught while cradling their bodies. John asserts that he tried to "take it back", but could not.
Cast
- Barry Pepper
- Bill McKinney
- Bonnie Hunt
- Brent Briscoe
- Dabbs Greer
- David Morse
- Doug Hutchison
- Eve Brent
- Gary Sinise
- Graham Greene
- Harry Dean Stanton
- James Cromwell
- Jeffrey DeMunn
- Michael Clarke Duncan
- Michael Jeter
- Patricia Clarkson
- Paula Malcomson
- Sam Rockwell
- Scotty Leavenworth
- Tom Hanks
- William Sadler
More details
| author | Frank Darabont |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Louisiana |
| director | Frank Darabont |
| editor | Richard Francis-Bruce |
| events | capital punishment |
| genre | crime drama fantasy |
| keywords | corrections officer death row hatred heal ill wife insane asylum padded cell possess straitjacket suffer top hat torture two girls |
| musicBy | Thomas Newman |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay |
| producer | David Valdes Frank Darabont |
| productionCompany | Castle Rock Entertainment Darkwoods Productions |
| publisher | PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Universal Pictures Variety Warner Bros. Pictures |
| recordedAt | California North Carolina |
| theme | magical realism rape |