Green Mile, The

A story told in flashback and narrarted by Paul Edgecomb, now living in an old-age home six decades after working as the head guard on Death Row at a Southen Prison named Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Travelling back to 1935, during the Great Depression, the former prison guard, Edgecomb, reflects on how he developed a poignant, unusual relationship with this one inmate, sentenced to Death Row, who may be innocent.

The inmate, John Coffey, is an African-American man--convicted of the rape and murder of a pair of 9-year-old sisters--who awaits his death in this harsh prison. Coffey has strange powers, both mysterious and miraculous; and the creepy characters in the prison have their own views of his gifts... and of God's.

Directed by
Frank Darabont

Cast
Tom Hanks - Paul Edgecomb
David Morse - Brutus "Brutal" Howell
Bonnie Hunt - Jan Edgecomb
Michael Clarke Duncan - John Coffey
James Cromwell - Warden Hal Moores
Michael Jeter - Eduard Delacroix
Graham Greene - Arlen Bitterbuck
Doug Hutchison - Percy Wetmore
Sam Rockwell - "Wild Bill" Wharton

Production Co.
Castle Rock Entertainment
Polygram Filmed Entertainment
Darkwoods Productions

Produced by
Joe Gareri
David Valdes
Frank Darabont

Studio
Castle Rock Entertainment

Writer
Frank Darabont
Stephen King

Music
Thomas Newman