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The Green Mile
On death row in 1932, a condemned man with impossible powers turns a prison guard’s world into a haunting question of guilt, innocence, and salvation.
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About The Green Mile
Stephen King's international bestselling - and highly acclaimed - novel, also a hugely successful film starring Tom Hanks The Green Mile: those who walk it do not return, because at the end of that walk is the room in which sits Cold Mountain penitentiary's electric chair. In 1932 the newest resident on death row is John Coffey, a giant black man convicted of the brutal murder of two little girls. But nothing is as it seems with John Coffey, and around him unfolds a bizarre and horrifying story. Evil murderer or holy innocent - whichever he is - Coffey has strange powers which may yet offer salvation to others, even if they can do nothing to save him.
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Content warnings
- capital punishment
- death row
- murder
- child murder
- rape
- racism
- ableism
- execution
- electric chair
- prison abuse
- violence
- animal cruelty
- animal death
- medical trauma
- racial slurs
- car accident
- sexual content
