The Green Mile is a 1999 film, directed by Frank Darabont, based on the Stephen King novel The Green Mile. The film stars Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecomb and Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey. The movie is primarily about Paul Edgecomb and his life as a prison guard on the death row in the 1930s. The movie is told in flashback by Paul Edgecomb in a nursing home and follows a string of supernatural and metaphysical events apon the arrival of tried and convicted murderer John Coffey.