The Green Mile

Directed by Frank Darabont
Produced by Frank Darabont, David Valdes
Written by Stephen King
Screenplay:
Frank Darabont
Starring Tom Hanks
David Morse
Bonnie Hunt
Michael Clarke Duncan
James Cromwell
Michael Jeter
Graham Greene
Doug Hutchison
Sam Rockwell
Barry Pepper
Jeffrey DeMunn
Patricia Clarkson
Harry Dean Stanton
Music by Thomas Newman
Cinematography - David Tattersall
Editing by Richard Francis-Bruce
Distributed by Warner Bros(United States), UIP / Universal (Elsewhere)
Release date(s) - December 10, 1999
Running time - 188 minutes
Language - English
Budget - $60 million
Gross revenue - $286,801,374

The Green Mile is a 1999 American drama film directed by Frank Darabont and adapted by him from the 1996 Stephen King novel of the same name. The film stars Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecomb and Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey.

The film is primarily about Edgecomb and his life as a corrections officer on Death Row in the 1930s. The movie is told in flashback by the protagonist in a nursing home and follows a string of supernatural and metaphysical events upon the arrival of Coffey, a man convicted, but not guilty, of murder.

The film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor, Best Picture, Best Sound, and Best Writing: Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published.