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I've read and heard all of the gripes that people have had with this movie since the 80's. Give Tom a break. He did Rainman and Born on the Fourth of July right after Cocktail, so he made up for it. Personally, I love this movie. Nobody was trying to make movie history or trying to win any Oscars with this movie (except for maybe the Beach Boys). Brown is loveable and hateful as Coglin. Shue and Cruise have a realistic chemistry, not all starry eyes and smiles like most hollywood romances. I actually found them appealing and not nauseating like most movie romances. (Titanic for one.) And, if you can't find any other reason to watch this movie, do it for the poems and the waterfall scenes.

I read "The Green Mile" about a week before the movie opened here. About 60 pages from the end I began crying for the 3rd time since I had begun reading it. I did not stop crying until ten minutes after I finished the book. The book is completely compelling and touching. I consider it to be one of the best fiction books that I have ever read. I was not sure if the movie would be able to live up to what I had seen in my mind while reading. On the Friday it opened, my fiancee and I went to the first showing. 3 hours and 10 minutes later, the two of us emerged, tear stained and even closer to one another than ever before. Frank Darabont and cast have created a miracle of their own in this work. The movie captures every emotion that Stephen King intended to be caught. Emotions that I was never aware that could be caught on film. I have seen reviews and heard opinions about this movie. Most agree with me, masterpiece, work of art, and so on. However, there are some people who think that this movie is self-indulgent, over-done, and way too long. Ironically enough, these are the same people who absolutely adored "Titanic", which was self-indulgent and far too caught up in it's own grandiose image. It was also a 3 hour movie, and it did not capture in those 3 hours any of the emotion that the Green Mile captures within the first 30 minutes. Tom Hanks, Michael Duncan (Bear, to those who saw "Armageddon")David Morse, and Bonnie Hunt all helped bring to life this absolutely compelling, stunning, and emotionally wrenching picture. Bravo to Darabont and cast for a beautiful job. If this, like the equally wonderful "Shawshank", is snubbed at Oscar time, it will be a disgrace to the movie-making business.

I first saw Teacher's Pet when I was six years old. I'm a mere 19 now, and I still love this movie. Clark Gable was, is, and always will be the epitome of the word "star" Even though this film was almost 20 years after Gone With The Wind, Gable is still handsome and charismatic as the jagged, disagreeable, stubborn reporter. Gig Young and Mamie Van Doren help Gable to push this movie into the classics hall of fame. A definite must see for all viewers.**** out of ****