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The Green Mile (1999)

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.8
The Green Mile poster

Overview

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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Bias Dimensions

Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High
Christianity: Positive

Overview

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.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Progressive

Primary

The film's dominant themes align with progressive values, primarily through its profound emotional critique of capital punishment and its depiction of racial injustice via the wrongful execution of an innocent Black man.

The movie features visible diversity in its cast, with key minority characters whose roles are central to the narrative. Its story explicitly critiques racial injustice and systemic prejudice within a historical context, highlighting the devastating impact of traditional power structures on marginalized individuals.

Secondary

The film employs strong Christian allegories, portraying John Coffey as a Christ-like figure who embodies divine compassion, healing, and sacrificial innocence. The narrative aligns with themes of faith, redemption, and the struggle against injustice, ultimately affirming spiritual virtues. The guards' moral dilemmas and Coffey's miraculous powers are framed within a deeply spiritual context.

The Green Mile does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on justice, injustice, and supernatural events within a prison setting, without engaging with queer identity or experiences.

The Green Mile is a drama set in a 1930s prison, exploring themes of life, death, and the supernatural through its characters. The film does not feature any transsexual characters or themes, therefore, there is no identifiable portrayal to evaluate within its narrative.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The film is a direct adaptation of Stephen King's novel. All major and named characters, including Paul Edgecomb and John Coffey, retain the same gender as established in the source material. No instances of a character canonically established as one gender being portrayed as another are present.

All major characters in "The Green Mile" (1999) are portrayed by actors whose race aligns with their descriptions in Stephen King's original novel. No characters established as one race in the source material were depicted as a different race in the film.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.8

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
8.6
The Movie Database logo
8.5

Critic Ratings

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7.9
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6.1

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