The Green Mile

The film is 'book-ended' by a modern day Paul Edgecomb describing his days as the leader of the Death Row warders team, with the majority of the action in flashback. He finds himself reminded of the time by a film which is on at his old people's home and he tells a confidante: "The past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not."
This past is 1935, when Edgecomb worked at Cold Harbour State Penitentiary in Louisiana. He is challenged by the arrival of a prisoner, John Coffey, who is extraordinary in many ways. Not only has Coffey apparently committed a dreadful crime in raping and murdering two nine-year old sisters, but he is also over seven feet tall, black and strangely vulnerable. His opening request is: "Do you leave the lightThe film is 'book-ended' by a modern day Paul Edgecomb describing his days as the leader of the Death Row warders team, with the majority of the action in flashback. He finds himself reminded of the time by a film which is on at his old people...