{"id":2675,"date":"2002-09-25T18:53:15","date_gmt":"2002-09-25T16:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2002\/09\/the-green-mile-comes-to-abc-saturday\/"},"modified":"2015-05-19T13:29:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T11:29:12","slug":"the-green-mile-comes-to-abc-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2002\/09\/the-green-mile-comes-to-abc-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Green Mile&#8217; Comes To ABC Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;re not aware &#8211; William Sadler also starred in this movie and thought all Roswellians might be interested..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nACADEMY AWARD-WINNER TOM HANKS STARS IN THE INSPIRING DRAMA<br \/>\n&#8220;THE GREEN MILE,&#8221; THE SEASON PREMIERE PRESENTATION OF &#8220;ABC SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES&#8221; &#8211; SEPTEMBER 28<\/p>\n<p>SEASON PREMIERE<\/p>\n<p>David Morse, Bonnie Hunt and Michael Clarke Duncan Star in the Feature, Making its Network Television Premiere in HDTV with 5.1-Channel Surround Sound and Video Description<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Darabont directs it, it tells a story with beginning, middle, end, vivid characters, humor, outrage and emotional release.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times<\/p>\n<p>Tom Hanks (&#8220;Road to Perdition,&#8221; &#8220;Cast Away&#8221;) stars in &#8220;The Green Mile,&#8221; an inspiring drama based on a Stephen King novel about prison guards and their interaction with a towering inmate awaiting his execution. The feature, making its network television premiere, will air as the season premiere presentation of &#8220;ABC Saturday Night at the Movies,&#8221; SEPTEMBER 28 (8:00-11:30 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. Also starring are David Morse (&#8220;Proof of Life&#8221;), Bonnie Hunt (ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Life with Bonnie&#8221;) and Michael Clarke Duncan (who received an Oscar nomination for the role).<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;The Green Mile,&#8221; which received four Oscar nominations, Paul Edgecomb (Hanks) is in charge of Death Row at a Deep South prison in the 1930s. The Green Mile refers to the green floor leading to the death chamber. A towering black man, John Coffey (Duncan), arrives in the cell block, having been convicted of the murders of two little girls. Coffey is passive, cooperative and seemingly simpleminded, and he&#8217;s afraid of the dark, which leads most to doubt he is capable of committing any crime.<\/p>\n<p>Edgecomb is plagued by a lingering infection and worse &#8211; a vicious guard named Percy (Doug Hutchison) who is related to the governor and wants &#8220;to see one cook up close.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Green Mile&#8221; stars Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecomb, David Morse as Brutus Howell, Bonnie Hunt as Jan Edgecomb, Michael Clarke Duncan (&#8220;The Scorpion King&#8221;) as John Coffey, James Cromwell (&#8220;The Sum of All Fears,&#8221; &#8220;Babe&#8221;) as Warden Hal Moores, Michael Jeter (&#8220;Welcome to Collinwood&#8221;) as Eduard &#8220;Del&#8221; Delacroix, Graham Greene (&#8220;Skins&#8221;) as Arlen Bitterbuck, Doug Hutchison (&#8220;The Salton Sea&#8221;) as Percy Wetmore, Sam Rockwell as William &#8220;Wild Bill&#8221; Wharton, Barry Pepper as Dean Stanton, Jeffrey DeMunn as Harry Terwilliger, Patricia Clarkson as Melinda Moores, Harry Dean Stanton as Toot-Toot, Dabbs Greer as Old Paul Edgecomb and Eve Brent as Elaine Connelly.<\/p>\n<p>The 1999 release was directed by three-time Oscar nominee Frank Darabont (&#8220;The Green Mile&#8221; and &#8220;The Shawshank Redemption&#8221;). Darabont wrote the screenplay based on the Stephen King novel. The film was produced by Castle Rock Entertainment, Darkwoods Productions and Warner Bros. 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