Paths vs The Green Mile

The Green Mile has the higher audience score (8.5/10 against 7.4/10 for Paths). Paths is the shorter watch at 2h compared with 3h 9m. Paths is the older of the two (1978 against 1999). Both are drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Paths posterPaths1978 VS The Green Mile posterThe Green Mile1999
PathsThe Green Mile
Audience score★ 7.4/10★ 8.5/10
Year19781999
Length2h 3h 9m
GenresDrama, FantasyCrime, Drama, Fantasy
Country–United States of America
DirectorJoão César MonteiroFrank Darabont
Main castJoão César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas, Carmen Duarte, Virgilio Branco, Luís de Sousa CostaPatricia Clarkson, Tom Hanks, David Morse, Sam Rockwell, James Cromwell

Synopsis

Paths

Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods.

The Green Mile

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

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