Director: Frank Darabont
Starring :
Tom Hanks
David Morse
Bonnie Hunt
Michael Clarke Duncan
James Cromwell
Michael Jeter
Graham Greene
Doug Hutchison
Sam Rockwell
Barry Pepper
Jeffrey DeMunn
Patricia Clarkson
Harry Dean Stanton
Storyline :
In a very Louisiana nursing home throughout 1999, Paul Edgecomb begins to cry while watching the 1935 film Prime Hat. His elderly close friend Elaine shows concern pertaining to his behavior, and Paul tells her that this film reminded him involving his youth, when he was a prison officer the boss of death row inmates in Cold Mountain Penitentiary in the summer of 1935. Your scene shifts to 1935, where Paul in concert with fellow guards Brutus "Brutal" Howell, Harry Terwilliger, along with Dean Stanton. Unlike the opposite guards, Paul is an incredibly calm guard and can be sympathetic with some inmates.
Some day, John Coffey, a massive African-American man convicted involving raping and killing a pair of young white girls, arrives inside prison, sentenced to loss of life row. However, much on the surprise of the various other guards and inmates, he or she is very shy, soft-spoken, and also a very emotional person. Bob reveals extraordinary powers by simply healing Paul's urinary region infection and resurrecting a new mouse only by the touch. Later, he cures the terminally ill partner of Warden Hal Moores. When John is asked to go into detail his power, he merely says that they "took it back. "
Meanwhile, a new violent, psychopathic prisoner named "Wild Bill" Wharton is here, to be executed pertaining to multiple murders committed after a robbery. At one place he seizes John's supply, and John psychically senses that Wharton is usually responsible for the crime is actually John was convicted along with sentenced to death. Bob "takes back" the health issues in Hal's wife along with regurgitates it into Percy, who then shoots Wharton for you to death and falls right state of permanent catatonia. Percy is then mentioned to Briar Ridge Mental Hospital as being a patient rather than the administrator. In the wake of such events, Paul interrogates Bob, who says he "punished them bad men" and to show Paul precisely what he saw. John takes Paul's hand and says she has to give Paul "a part of himself" to ensure Paul to see what really happened on the girls.
Paul asks John what he ought of do, if he should open the threshold and let John vanish. John tells him there's too much pain on the globe, to which he can be sensitive, and says he is "rightly sick and tired with the pain" and is getting ready to rest. For his last request for the night before his setup, John watches the video Top Hat. When John is invest the electric chair, they, shedding tears, asks Paul to never put the traditional dark-colored hood over his head because he or she is afraid of the darker. Paul agrees, shakes his hand as being a goodbye, and John can be executed.
As an aged Paul finishes his history, he notes that they requested a transfer to your youth detention center, where he spent the others of his career. Elaine questions his statement that they had a fully grown son back then, and Paul explains that they was 44 years old before John's execution, meaning that they is now over 108 years. This is apparently a unwanted effect of John giving a new "part of himself" for you to Paul. Mr. Jingles, Del's sensitive mouse resurrected by John, is also still well — but Paul believes his outliving every one of his relatives and friends becoming a punishment from God pertaining to having let John always be executed, and wonders how long it's going to be before his own loss of life. The film shows glimpses of the future in which Elaine has given to and Paul is still moving into the retirement home.
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