The Green Mile

1999 · Movie · 180 min. · United States

In a US retirement home in the present, elderly Paul Edgecomb reminisces to his friend Elaine. Flashbacks reveal events in 1935: Edgecomb is a death-row warder in a southern state prison. He takes custody of John Coffey, convicted of murdering two little girls. Another warder, Percy Wetmore, who treats the prisoners sadistically but is protected by powerful allies, asks to take part in the next execution. One day, Coffey calls over Edgecomb, who is afflicted by a urinary complaint, and heals him by touch...

Direction Frank Darabont

Cast Tom Hanks · Michael Clarke Duncan · David Morse · Doug Hutchison · Sam Rockwell · Barry Pepper · Jeffrey DeMunn · Michael Jeter · Bonnie Hunt · James Cromwell · Gary Sinise · Patricia Clarkson · Graham Greene · Harry Dean Stanton · William Sadler · Paula Malcomson · Dabbs Greer · Brian Libby · Bailey Drucker