The Green Mile Movie Review

  The Green Mile Movie Review

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Released 1999, directed by Frank Darabont, and starring Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan. 

Imdb Rating: 8.5 from 935,962 votes. Imdb Top 250: 31

Review:Heartbreaking,mature tale with amazing performances

  One of my favourite movies of all time, and one of the few movies that really, really made me cry..The Green Mile.If you're old enough to handle this movie, as it's got some strong language, and some sexual references and implications, some truly disturbing scenes, and somber, extremely emotional material, go watch it. Seriously.

  Amazing performances, beautiful music, a superbly written story that never, ever feels bloated, or boring, even though most of the story is on one corridor, the "Green Mile".

  I think everyone already knows or can guess the ending, but I'll still try to stay away from major spoilers.

  Hanks plays a guard on Death Row, whose entire life is turned upside down by the arrival of the huge, but surprisingly gentle, and innocent-seeming John Coffey, whose charged with the rape and murder or two young girls, but seems to have a strange gift, which affects everyone around him.

  The themes in this movie are at times gut-wrenching, at time funny, at times uplifting, dealing with religion, God, justice, miracles, all interwoven in an almost fairy-tale like setting, all joining together at the heart-breaking final.

 My rating? For sure: 10/10.