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The Green Mile

1999

Frank Darabont

Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Doug Hutchison ...

7.9

109,461

Drama. Fantasy In a US retirement home in the present, elderly Paul Edgecomb reminisces to his friend Elaine. Flashbacks reveal events in 1935: Edgecomb is a death-row warder in a southern state prison. He takes custody of John Coffey, convicted of murdering two little girls. Another warder, Percy Wetmore, who treats the prisoners sadistically but is protected by powerful allies, asks to take part in the next execution. One day, Coffey calls over ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"It's a film with a counterproductive tendency to take its time (...) Unassumingly strong, moving performances and Mr. Darabont's durable storytelling make it a trip worth taking just the same."	POS
United States	Jonathan Foreman New York Post	"A reminder of just how good Hollywood storytelling can be."	POS
United States	David Ansen Newsweek	"A lumbering, self-important three-hour melodrama that defies credibility at every turn"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"By the end (...) the story has so well prepared us that the key scenes play like drama, not metaphor, and that is not an easy thing to achieve (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"Well-made and enjoyable, it's much inferior to the earlier film (...) The improbability factor goes far beyond the supernatural aspects."	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"An intermittently powerful and meticulously crafted drama that falls short of its full potential due to considerable over-length and some shopworn, simplistic notions at its center"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"There's certainly a lot of great stuff here. But be warned, youll need stamina (...) Polished it is, profound it ain't (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Nigel Floyd Time Out	"This suffers from a surfeit of plot threads and characters, some more compelling than others (...) The supernatural elements carry an undeniable emotional charge"	NEU
United States	Peter Rainer New York Magazine	"A fairly good and well-acted movie (...) Darabont works big but thinks small, or at least without great complexity."	NEU
United States	Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader	"The resonant characterization, expansive plotting, and judicious use of exterior locations and flashbacks turn the walls into windows."	POS
United Kingdom	David McGillivray Radio Times	"[A] masterful sentimental fantasy (...) [Darabont] cleverly manipulates the emotions (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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