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The Green Mile(1999)
Released
1999 · FILM

The Green Mile

A corrections officer on death row in 1935 discovers a gentle, seemingly supernatural prisoner who may be innocent—and possesses the power to heal.

“Paul Edgecomb didn't believe in miracles. Until the day he met one.”

Directed by
Frank Darabont
Written by
Stephen King, Frank Darabont
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
189 min
CrimeDramaFantasy

Synopsis

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison follows the gentle giant John Coffey, who possesses the mysterious power to heal people.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 56+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Richard Francis BruceShot by David TattersallScored by Thomas NewmanDesigned by Terence Marsh

Box Office

1999 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$286.8M

Budget$60.0M
Worldwide gross$286.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $136.8M — 48% of worldwide · International: $150.0M (52%)

Opening weekend: $18.0M — 13% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $23.9M — 17% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,875 theaters

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Also known as

  • Green Mileen
  • La milla verdees
  • La Ligne vertefr
  • Il miglio verdeit

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