1999 · drama · fantasy · prison
The Green Mile
Directed by Frank Darabont3h 9m1999
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
Our read: The Green Mile (1999) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · fantasy · prison entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, extreme drama / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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