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    Green Mile, The (1999)

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    As the story begins, a very old man begins to relate his story to a friend at a nursing home. He tells his companion about the Cold Mountain Penitentiary in Louisiana, where the events he speaks about took place in 1935 . . .

    The head guard in the death row cellblock – which has a green painted floor, hence its nickname of ‘the green mile’ – is a reasonable man named Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), and among his prisoners awaiting execution is a seven-foot-tall 300lb childlike black man called John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), who has been convicted of raping and murdering two little blonde girls in the deep south – despite a lack of concrete evidence or motive (you just know he didn’t do it).

    After a series of unusual events take place, Edgecomb begins to wonder whether Coffey has special healing powers, to the extent that he feels John can help Melinda (Patricia Clarkson), the cancer-stricken wife of the prison’s warden (James Cromwell).

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    However, time is running out for John Coffey – “Like the drink, only spelled different” – since he has a date with the electric chair. Edgecomb, who has no stomach for frying John, says, “What will I tell God when he asks why I killed one of his angels?”.

    The worst villain, after prisoner Billy Wharton (Sam Rockwell in maniac overdrive), is the guard Percy Wetmore (nice, nasty work by Doug Hutchison), who uses his friends in high places to get away with acts of sadism – and who squashes Mr Jangles, a mouse that the prisoners regard as a pet.

    The film – which is three hours long but flies by – is a complex story operating on several levels. Unsurprisingly, it was based on a novel by Stephen King.

    Michael Duncan passed away in 2012 from a cardiac arrest. He was just 54.

    Paul Edgecomb
    Tom Hanks
    John Coffey
    Michael Clarke Duncan
    Brutus ‘Brutal’ Howell
    David Morse
    Jan Edgecomb
    Bonnie Hunt
    Percy Wetmore
    Doug Hutchison
    Warden Hal Moores
    James Cromwell
    Melinda Moores
    Patricia Clarkson
    Eduard ‘Del’ Delacroix
    Michael Jeter
    Arlen Bitterbuck
    Graham Greene
    William ‘Wild Bill’ Wharton
    Sam Rockwell
    Dean Stanton
    Barry Pepper
    Harry Terwilliger
    Jeffrey Demunn
    Toot-Toot
    Harry Dean Stanton
    Elaine Connelly
    Eve Brent
    Klaus Detterick
    William Sadler
    Marjorie Detterick
    Paula Malcomson
    Howie Detterick
    Christopher Ives
    Kathe Detterick
    Evanne Drucker
    Cora Detterick
    Bailey Drucker
    Sheriff McGee
    Brian Libby
    Bill Dodge
    Brent Briscoe
    Jack Van Hay
    Bill Mckinney
    Burt Hammersmith
    Gary Sinise
    Cynthia Hammersmith
    Rachel Singer

    Director
    Frank Darabont

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