The Green Mile(1999)- Production Details

Poster of The Green Mile

Synopsis

A story told in flashback and narrarted by Paul Edgecomb, now living in an old-age home six decades after working as the head guard on Death Row at a Southen Prison named Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Travelling back to 1935, during the Great Depression, the former prison guard, Edgecomb, reflects on how he developed a poignant, unusual relationship with this one inmate, sentenced to Death Row, who may be innocent. The inmate, John Coffey, is an African-American man--convicted of the rape and murder of a pair of 9-year-old sisters--who awaits his death in this harsh prison. Coffey has strange powers, both mysterious and miraculous; and the creepy characters in the prison have their own views of his gifts... and of God's.

Production Details

In Theaters

  • December 10, 1999

MPAA Rating

R

Genres

Adaptation, Period, Drama, Thriller

Run Time

3 hours 7 minutes

Distributors

Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution

Box Office

$136,801,376

Production Status

Released

Filming Locations

  • Blowing Rock, North Carolina, USA
  • Nashville, Tennessee, USA
  • Los Angeles, California, USA

Produced In

United States

Director

CAST

Tom Hanks

Paul Edgecomb

David Morse

Brutus "Brutal" Howell

Bonnie Hunt

Jan Edgecomb

Michael Clarke Duncan

John Coffey

James Cromwell

Warden Hal Moores

Michael Jeter

Eduard Delacroix