Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...style that looked spare in one movie can feel bloated in the next. That's the case with The Green Mile, reverently taken from King's serialized novel. It's 1935, and we're on a Southern prison's death row, where the only recreation is watching a mouse commandeer the corridor. Enter a new inmate, John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a giant black man with a gift of preternatural empathy; he can literally suck the pain out of people. Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), the chief guard of E Block, is in awe of this white magic. He benefits from...
...miracle takes place in a 1935 Southern prison, where the head guard on death row, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), is given a new perspective on life, fittingly, by a man sentenced to death--a larger-than-life inmate named John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan). Convicted for the unthinkable murder of two little girls, Coffey is placed on the Green Mile, the stretch of walkway that brings death row prisoners from their cells to the electric chair (usually called the last mile, but this particular one has green floor tiles). The unique bond that evolves between the sympathetic Edgecomb...
...Redemption: tight close-ups, wide establishing shots, innovative camera angles. Darabont is a master of filming grand, sweeping epics in relatively confined spaces, and he stays true to form here. The pacing is deliberate, allowing the audience to fully experience all the tensions and hardships of life on Death Row. Still, Darabont is careful not to waste any screentime on dull moments; there's plenty of action to offset the unusually long running time. As the film progresses, the tone remains predominantly serious (befitting a story set on Death Row), interspersed with lighter scenes of optimism and hope. Edgecomb...
Riding a two-game winning streak after a devastating 89-61 loss to Holy Cross last Saturday, the Harvard women's basketball team looks for three in a row for the first time this season tomorrow at Mount Saint Mary...
...Everyone in my row [at work] has done it," says Noyer...