The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.
Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoner, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.

1935 . The southern United States is bleak chill of Cold Mountain prison . There is a mile long, green , people call it "green " . However , its residents are on death row , in the other end of the green is the execution with the electric chair . Paul Ai rule Comcast ( Tom Hanks) is the supervisor of the prison through the "green " , then screams killed in the electric chair on death row execution , he seems to have been indifferent . In addition to Paul and its beloved wife Jane , "green " there brutal Howell , deputy prison officials , the sadistic tendencies of the jailer Pacey traces of conscience guards Haier and his terminally ill wife Melinda , funny prison and Zhu " fellows " for pleasure , Drake , serial killer William , guilt -ridden prisoners Pitt and other Lord of the kinds of people like to use a pet rat . Between them is full of hostility and disdain . The mysterious John . Test Fuli arrival changed everything . Test Fuli was a capital offense for the murder of two young daughters , he looks terror , huge body , but surprisingly calm, sensitive and quiet , naive or even like a child at the same time , he seems to have the mysterious power of an indescribable , so that help them produce a sense of trust , can not help but to Ai governance Cosme its crimes is true profoundly doubt . The truth can not replace the program, test Fuli finally going through the " Green Mile " . Moment in this seemingly rude man about to die , "green " people on a different form of an important leap forward in their respective life .