Another Excellent Adaptation of a Stephen King Novel.

Rating: Null/10 (20 July 2000)

I am the kind of person who reads novels first, and then goes out and sees the movies made out of the novels so I can note the ways in which the two differ. The Green Mile, though, seems as if it were directly written for the big screen. The movie deviates little from the novel, but I must warn that if you thought Del's execution in the movie was ghastly, don't dare read about it in the book version.
As for the story itself, well, I must give it a thumbs up. It's touching, and realistic. I read reviews that skeptically asked why John Coffey wasn't lynched on the spot for his crime, then I thought, "Well, look at the size of him. How are they gonna hang him from a tree? He must weigh a ton! They don't make white boys that big." But all kidding aside, the movie provided some excellent performances. Percy (Doug Hutchison) was exactly as I imagined him, and kudos to Bonnie Hunt (Janice Edgecombe), Patricia Clarkson (Melinda Moores), and David Morse ("Brutal" Brutus Howell).
8 out of 10 stars