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The Green Mile

For my film review on an epic, I watched The Green Mile, staring Tom Hanks (Paul Edgecomb), David Morse (Brutus Howell), and Michael Clarke Duncan (John Coffey). Frank Darabont directed the film. Darabont also wrote and produced the movie. This movie had a very diverse, involving, and changing plot. And to keep this film review somewhat short, I will only share the main, and very important events that happened throughout the film. The beginning starts in a retirement home. Most of the residence are watching television and after changing the channel to an old musical, one of the elder male residence leaves the room in tears. His friend at the home comes to talk to him, and the rest of the movie is his story. You find that long ago he was a prison guard during the depression era in the south. He worked at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary on which a handful of killers lived out their last days before taking a ride on Old Sparky the electric chair. The prison is a normal one, with not many odd occurrences, until one day they bring in a new inmate. A huge black prisoner named John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), like the drink but not spelled the same . He was accused of the killing of two young girls. But after he is brought in, he is not mentioned for a while and the story focussed on Paul Edgecomb, who was currently going through the worst urinary infection of is life. Several of the inmates walk the green mile and ride Old Sparky in this time. And some new inmates come into the prison, but it seems as though that is all normal. Later you find that the warden (James Cromwell) s wife is suffering from an inoperable brain tumor. Then, you find that the inmate John Coffey has an incredible power. He has the ability to cure aliments. The first such instance he cures Edgecomb s

urinary infection. It is quite a site to see, with the odd electrical field and the releasing of the illness by Coffey in the form of disappearing gnats. The prison guards, who are all close friends, decide to take Coffey to Warden Hal Moore s wife. They take him, and he cures her completely, but he didn t release the gnats as he had done every time before. They take him back to the jail, where he realeses the gnats directly into the mouth of the corrupt, spoiled, prison guards mouth. He was the guard hated by all the others, and he did not partake in the temporary release of Coffey. While in a confused state, Percy Wetmore (Doug Hutchison) shoots the evil inmate, Wild Bill (Sam Rockwell). It is found by Coffey that Bill commited the murders that he was being blamed for, and in a magical handshake, Coffey showed Edgecomb what Bill had done. Eventually it came time to execute the huge inmate who cries a lot and like the night left on a night, John Coffey. There was no way that there could be a repeal on the execution, so they did not even try. On top of that, Coffey said that he was tired of the world and was relieved that...