Great Cast And Acting Make This A Brilliant, Thought Provoking Movie

Rating: 10/10 (22 July 2005)

The Green Mile (directed by Frank Darabont) is a great movie with a stellar cast.
Based on Stephen King's best seller, this is a modern masterpiece. Running at about three hours, this might seem long but with this movie you will never notice. The cast is great (Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell and Bonnie Hunt), the acting superb and the directing is top of the line.
John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) is convicted of raping and killing two little girls. He is sentenced to death on the electric chair, in the Cold Mountain Penitentary. Along with cell mates Eduard Delacroix and William "Wild Bill" Wharton miracles follow. The guards Paul Edgecombe (Tom Hanks), Brutus "Brutal Howell, Dean Stanton, Harry Terwilliger and the annoying, governor's nephew Percy Wetmore (Doug Hutchinson) all witness these astounding miracles and happenings on the Green Mile.
This movie is thought provoking and extremely sad. It is wonderfully adapted and acted. Despite the running time this movie is paced perfectly.
This movie should have won those awards. It leaves you with a feeling. Did he kill those girls? Is he really God's gift? Is the electric chair to brutal to have ever existed? This is a 5/5 from me. This movie will always have a place in me.