Storyline:
Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a mysterious special gift.
Additional Information:
Directed by: Frank Darabont
Produced by: Frank Darabont, David Valdes
Screenplay by: Frank Darabont
Based on: The Green Mile: by Stephen King
Starring: Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell
Music by: Thomas Newman
Cinematography: David Tattersall
Editing by: Richard Francis-Bruce
Studio: Castle Rock Entertainment
Distributed by: Warner Bros. (US) PolyGram Films (thru Universal Studios) (international)
Release date: December 10, 1999
Running time: 188 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $60,000,000
Box office: $286,801,388
Critiques:
"So moving, so memorable, so magically produced, it's going to delight millions of movie fans and sweep the Oscars." Christopher Brandon, TNT RoughCut
"Above all a cracking good yarn that earns its laughter, its wonder and its tears." Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
"A reminder of just how good Hollywood storytelling can be." Jonathan Foreman, New York Post
"As Darabont directs it, it tells a story with beginning, middle, end, vivid characters, humor, outrage and emotional release. Dickensian." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"An often pedestrian film, one that never inflates to the epic grandeur to which it aspires or transfers its own emotional trajectory off the screen and into the viewer." Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian