The Green Mile

At Georgia Pines retirement home, an elderly Paul Edgecombe sets to write about the events of his time as a correctional officer at Louisiana’s Cold Mountain State Penitentiary with the help of his companion, Elaine Connelly. In 1932, a 40-year old Paul is the supervising officer of Cold Mountain’s death row, formally referred to as E Block, but known commonly as The Green Mile, for the color of its linoleum floor. This is the same year that John Coffey, a large black man found guilty of murdering the Detterick family’s twin girls, arrives at Cold Mountain. He was found clutching the white girls’ dead bodies and despairing over their deaths. Paul is unsettled by his gentle demeanor. One day, Coffey beckons him to his cell and cures Paul of his urinary tract infection. Paul struggles to reconcile Coffey’s healing powers with the horrific nature of his crimes. Later, Coffey uses his healing powers again to revive Mr. Jingles, the pet mouse of another inmate, Eduard Delacroix, after the guard, Percy Wetmore stomps on it. The rest of the guards,