The Green Mile (1999)
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
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🎙️ SYSK Episodes
#012325
How Automats Worked
"The green 1.6 kilometer is... the green mile."
Chuck and Josh discuss a movie title puzzle from The Puzzler podcast converting metric to imperial measurements.
Jan 23, 2025
#090921
How the Magna Carta Worked
"As they walk down the Green Mile."
— Josh
Josh references the walk down the Green Mile in Johnny Dangerously, alluding to the famous scene from The Green Mile.
Sep 9, 2021
#092819
SYSK Selects: What Happened at Kent State?
"It's pretty one note if you're a prison guard in a movie in general unless it's the Green Mile and that movie has problems of its own."
— Josh
Josh discusses prison guard portrayals in films, mentioning The Green Mile as an exception to typical villain portrayals.
Sep 28, 2019
#012718
SYSK Selects: Prisons - Not as Fun as You'd Think
"He got hit in the green mile and I didn't like that one."
— Chuck
Chuck mentions the film when comparing prison movie scenes.
Jan 27, 2018
#032117
Solitary Confinement: Cruel and Unusual
"We don't wanna demonize them because it's happened enough in media and certainly films Tom Hanks' aside, I guess, in The Green Mile."
— Chuck
Chuck references The Green Mile as an example of how prison guards are often demonized in films.
Mar 21, 2017
#022714
What happened at Kent State?
"unless it's the Green Mile and that movie has problems of its own"
— Josh
Josh mentions it as an exception to typical one-dimensional prison guard portrayals in movies.
Feb 27, 2014
#111511
How Alcatraz Works
"rather than the key, like they had the green mile, they had the levers"
— Josh
Josh references this prison movie when describing how Alcatraz used a lever system instead of keys to operate cell doors.
Nov 15, 2011
#081210
Prisons: Not as Fun as You'd Think
"He got hit in the green mile and I didn't like that one."
— Chuck
Chuck mentions The Green Mile while discussing prison scenes, though he seems to confuse it with Shawshank Redemption.
Aug 12, 2010
Cast
Tom Hanks
Paul Edgecomb
David Morse
Brutus 'Brutal' Howell
Bonnie Hunt
Jan Edgecomb
Michael Clarke Duncan
John Coffey
James Cromwell
Warden Hal Moores
Michael Jeter
Eduard Delacroix
Graham Greene
Arlen Bitterbuck
Doug Hutchison
Percy Wetmore
Sam Rockwell
'Wild Bill' Wharton
Barry Pepper
Dean Stanton
Jeffrey DeMunn
Harry Terwilliger
Patricia Clarkson
Melinda Moores
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