Tom Hanks (as Paul Edgecomb), Michael Clarke Duncan (as John Coffey), David Morse (as Brutus 'Brutal' Howell), Bonnie Hunt (as Jan Edgecomb), James...
Runtime:
-
MPAA Rating:
R
In Theaters:
10 December, 1999
Distribution:
Castle Rock Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures, American Broadcasting Company, Universal Pictures, United International Pictures, GAGA Communications
Miracles do happen.
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.