Forget ‘Carrie,’ Stephen King’s Near-Perfect Thriller Resurfaces as a Streaming Hit

The Green Mile has returned to the top of Tubi’s streaming charts, 27 years after its cinema release. Its renewed popularity highlights the lasting appeal of Frank Darabont’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, a prison drama that combines a bleak setting with a story about compassion and injustice.

Set in 1935, the film follows prison officer Paul Edgecomb, played by Tom Hanks, and John Coffey, a death-row inmate played by Michael Clarke Duncan who has healing abilities. The 1999 film earned four Oscar nominations, including Best Supporting Actor for Duncan, and was one of only two King adaptations nominated for Best Picture at the time of its release. Duncan’s performance became his best-known role; he died in 2012, aged 54.