The Green Mile

David Frankel's adaptation of Stephen King's novella, "The Green Mile," unfolds on a death row in a Louisiana penitentiary during the Depression era, where Paul Edgecomb, a compassionate prison guard, encounters John Coffey, a towering inmate with a kind heart and an enigmatic ability to heal. As Coffey faces imminent execution, Edgecomb's sense of duty clashes with his mounting conviction that Coffey's presence is a divine anomaly, one that demands preservation rather than punishment.