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In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing.
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Paul Edgecomb is the decent head guard at Louisiana's Cold Mountain Penitentiary in 1935. He works E block, which is death row. Among his prisoners is hulking black man John Coffey, whose intimidating size belies a sweet nature. It seems Coffey has the power to heal.
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