The Green Mile

Director: Frank Darabont

Overview

Director Frank Darabont, who made an acclaimed feature film debut with The Shawshank Redemption (1994), based on a Stephen King novel set in a prison, returns for a second feature, based on King's 1996 serialized novel set in a prison. In 1935, inmates at the Cold Mountain Correctional Facility call Death Row "The Green Mile" because of the dark green linoleum that tiles the floor. Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) is the head guard on the Green Mile when a new inmate is brought into his custody: John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), convicted of the sadistic murder of two young girls. Despite his size and the fearsome crimes for which he's serving time, Coffey seems to be a kind and well-mannered person who behaves more like an innocent child than a hardened criminal. Soon Edgecomb and two of his fellow guards, Howell (David Morse) and Stanton Barry Pepper), notice something odd about Coffey: he's able to perform what seem to be miracles of healing among his fellow inmates, leading them to wonder just what sort of person he could be, and if he could have committed the crimes with which he was charged. The Green Mile also stars James Cromwell as the warden; Michael Jeter, Sam Rockwell, and Graham Greene as inmates awaiting dates with the electric chair; and Harry Dean Stanton as a clever trustee.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/15/2007
UPC:	0053939273328
Original Release:	1999
Rating:	R
Source:	Warner Home Video
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	3:09:00
Sales rank:	1,162

Special Features

Featurette Walking the Mile; Production notes; Theatrical trailer; Subtitles: English & Français (feature film only)

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Tom Hanks	Actor
David Morse	Actor
Bonnie Hunt	Actor
James Cromwell	Actor
Michael Jeter	Delacroix
Graham Greene	Arlen
Sam Rockwell	Wharton
Doug Hutchison	Percy
Barry Pepper	Dean
Patricia Clarkson	Melinda
Jeffrey DeMunn	Harry
Harry Dean Stanton	Toot-Toot
Eve Brent	Elaine
William Sadler	Klaus
Gary Sinise	Burt
Mark C. Miles	Orderly Hector,Hector
Rai Tasco	Man in Nursing Home
Edrie Warner	Lady in Nursing Home
Dabbs Greer	Old Paul
Paula Malcomson	Marjorie Detterick
Christopher Ives	Howie Detterick
Evanne Drucker	Kathe Detterick,Cora Detterick
Brian Libby	Sheriff McGee
Brent Briscoe	Bill Dodge
Bill McKinney	Jack Van Hay
Rachel Singer	Cynthia Hammersmith
Scotty Leavenworth	Hammersmith's Son,Hammersmith's Daughter
Bill Gratton	Earl the Plumber
Dee Croxton	Woman at Del's Execution
Rebecca Klingler	Wife at Del's Execution
Gary Imhoff	Husband at Del's Execution
Van Epperson	Police Officer
David E. Browning	Reverend at Funeral
Michael Clarke Duncan	John Coffey,John Coffey
Thomas Newman	Composer
English	Voices
Christopher Joel Ives	Howie Detterick
Michael Clarke	Actor
Doug Hutchinson	Actor

Technical Credits

Frank Darabont

Stephen King

Frank Darabont	Director,Screenwriter,Producer
David Valdes	Producer,Director
Willie D. Burton	Sound Mixer,Sound Effects
Mali Finn	Casting
Jeff Imada	Stunts
Stephen King	Screenwriter
Nancy Barker	Sound Effects
Rick Canelli	Sound Effects
Clay Boss	Stunts
Craig Barron	Special Effects
Hiroshi Ikeuchi	Special Effects
Todd Bassman	Sound Effects
Julia Evershade	Sound Effects
Len White	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

Most of this adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling novel unfolds in the death house of a Southern prison -- an unlikely setting for a story that's not only uplifting but, at times, positively ethereal. Tom Hanks, Hollywood's favorite Everyman, is ideally cast as Paul Edgecomb, the death row guard who discovers that condemned murderer John Coffey (massive Michael Clarke Duncan) can heal the sick with a simple laying on of his huge hands. Justifiably skeptical of Edgecomb's claims, his fellow guards eventually become convinced that the gentle, wrongly convicted Coffey is blessed with divine power. Writer-director Frank Darabont, who also directed the film version of King's other prison story, The Shawshank Redemption, takes ample time to flesh out his characters and build sympathy for the doomed prisoner whose menacing appearance masks an almost childlike innocence. As captivating as it is long, the Academy Award-nominated Green Mile takes viewers on an emotional journey that they won't soon forget.