The film is based on a six-part series of novels written by legendary author Stephen King, who agreed to release the story once a month for six months so that it would force him to deliver a piece which otherwise may not have been written. Writer/Director Frank Darabont, fresh from the overwhelming success of The Shawshank Redemption a few years earlier (another King adaptation), was so keen on using this story as a basis for his next script that he basically agreed to write a screenplay before he had read the last parts of the series.
The story surrounds a prison block in Louisiana dubbed The Green Mile; a series of death-row waiting rooms separated by a faded green strip of linoleum floor in between. Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) is a veteran prison guard who has been numbed by years of watching hardened criminals brought to justice in the cruelest of fashion. Things change when he is introduced to a man named John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a larger than life black man who has been accused and convicted of killing two young girls on a farm. Coffey might be large in stature but he has the mind of a child, coupled with an extraordinary healing power that captures the mind of Paul Edgecomb and the other prison guards on the Mile.
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