🎬 The Green Mile Movie Info
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | The Green Mile |
| Director | Frank Darabont |
| Screenplay Writer | Frank Darabont |
| Based on Novel by | Stephen King |
| Lead Actor | Tom Hanks |
| Cast | Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Sam Rockwell |
| Genre | Drama, Fantasy, Crime |
| Release Date | December 10, 1999 (USA) |
| Duration | 3h 9m (189 minutes) |
| Budget | $60 million (estimated) |
| Language | English |
| Country | United States |
Rating
| Platform | Rating |
|---|---|
| IMDb | ⭐ 8.6 / 10 |
| Rotten Tomatoes (Critics) | 🍅 78% Tomatometer |
| Rotten Tomatoes (Audience) | 🍿 94% Popcornmeter |
| Metacritic | 🎬 61 / 100 |
| Letterboxd | ⭐ 4.3 / 5 |
Summary
A man sentenced to death row shows extraordinary abilities.
Review
I read Stephen King’s serial novel today The Green Mile. It’s not particularly meaty reading, but it serves the purpose of a few hours’ diversion from the hustle and bustle of the world. King has a knack with language, even if most of the horror work he’s done appeals to me not at all, and the spry, pulpy text in The Green Mile is quite engaging. Unfortunately, the bloated, self-important film version suffers from second time around syndrome for director Frank Darabont as well as the viewer.
Darabont’s work on The Shawshank Redemption was his only other big-screen credit as director. You might remember that flick a taut, well told story featuring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins, based on a Stephen King short story about people in prison. What we have in The Green Mile is a return to a theme with none of the spark that made Shawshank so watchable.
Everyone involved in the movie seems to wish they were in the earlier picture, including Tom Hanks, seemingly phoning it in as an emotionally distant guard who is jolted by the events he witnesses while working death row in a small southern prison. Where Shawshank elevated the material by serving as a deft piece of social commentary about prison life, The Green Mile mindlessly hammers the “jail is bad, and nobody understands the magical prisoner” message over and over. It’s during his third or fourth miracle that I wanted Michael Clarke Duncan’s convicted murderer to get the chair just so the movie will end already. This film begs to get the chance to jerk tears from from one’s eyes and will only succeed if you’ve not seen anything from Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg, the masters of schmaltz that Darabont wants so badly to be.
My opinion
Just watch this film in 2026 this movie worth every second of your time.
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