I both laughed and cried sometimes simultaneous during this film. It is also both heart and gut wrenching.
This movie is such an outstanding portrayal of what it was like for black men of this era who were mostly all charged for crimes they did not commit due to the color of their skin. Also, it shows what jail life was like for all men who were charged with the most heinous crimes during that time. They were all put together in a maximum security area. Also, hanging wasn't used anymore, it had changed now to the electric chair.

Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) walked the mile with a variety of cons. He had never encountered someone like John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a massive black man convicted of brutally killing a pair of young sisters. Coffey had the size and strength to kill anyone, but not the demeanor. Beyond his simple, naive nature and a deathly fear of the dark, Coffey seemed to possess a prodigious, supernatural gift. Paul began to question whether Coffey was truly guilty of murdering the two girls.