Fantasy · Drama · Crime
American
1999 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 189 min
Louisiana, 1935. Paul Edgecomb supervises the death row block of a state prison, a quiet corridor with a green floor, where the routine of waiting for the chair is disturbed by the arrival of an enormous, soft-spoken new prisoner. A slow, humane drama that mixes prison realism with something unexplained.
Why it matters in cinema history
A late-1990s example of the prestige literary adaptation, and one of the best-known screen versions of Stephen King that avoids horror in favour of moral drama.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a story about how people behave when their job is to make a ritual of death humane.
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