Marvelous movie, 3+ hours, deserves all the praise it has received.

Rating: Null/10 (2 July 2000)

I saw "The Green Mile" on DVD and the extras, although brief, are interesting. I hadn't realized this was an adaptation of a Stephen King book. King himself said the screenplay was as "perfectly written" as he had ever seen.
Made by the same ones who gave us the "Shawshank Redemption", this movie also set in a prison is very realistic. In fact, the several execution by electric chair scenes had me tense up each time. The several stories are carefully interwoven, characters are developed wonderfully, and it is all brought together in the final 30 minutes. Tom Hanks is perfect as the death row "supervisor".