Watch The Green Mile Online - Full Movies, Trailers & Reviews

Synopsis

The Green Mile Promotional poster


Directed by
Frank Darabont


Produced by
Frank Darabont
David Valdes


Written by
Novel:
Stephen King
Screenplay:
Frank Darabont


Starring
Tom ..More


The Green Mile Plot

The Green Mile is a story told in flashback by an elderly Paul Edgecomb (Dabbs Greer, later by Tom Hanks in the younger version of the character) in a nursing home who is talking to his lady friend Elaine about the summer of 1935 when he was a corrections officer in charge of Death Row inmates in Louisiana's Cold Mountain Penitentiary. His domain was called the "Green Mile" because the condemned prisoners walking to their execution are said to be walking "the last mile"; here it is on a stretch of green linoleum to the electric chair. One day, a new inmate arrives, John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a 7-foot-tall black male convicted of raping and killing two young white girls. Upon being escorted to his cell, he immediately demonstrates "gentle giant" character traits: keeping to himself, fearing darkness, and being moved to tears on occasion. Soon enough, Coffey reveals extraordinary healing powers by healing Edgecomb's urinary tract infection and resurrecting a mouse. Later, he would heal the terminally ill wife of Warden Hal Moores (James Cromwell), who suffered from a large brain tumor. When Coffey is asked to explain his power, he merely says that he "took it back." At the same time, Percy Wetmore (Doug Hutchison), a sadistic and unpopular guard, starts work. He "know[s] people, big people" (he is the nephew of the governor's wife), in effect preventing Edgecomb or anybody else from doing anything significant to curb his behavior. Wetmore recognizes that the other officers greatly dislike him and uses that to demand managing the next execution. After that, he promises, he will have himself transferred to an administrative post at Briar Ridge Mental Hospital and Edgecomb will never hear from him again. An agreement is made, but Wetmore then deliberately sabotages the execution. Instead of wetting the sponge used to conduct electricity, he leaves..More