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The Green Mile

Coin Flip Wins almost exactly half the time
1999 · Fantasy, Drama, Crime · Frank Darabont

No consensus on The Green Mile. Across 69 matchups it sits at 49% — exactly where 50% puts you, winning and losing in equal measure. A deeply emotional film that asks for three hours of patience and repays it with genuine devastation. The runtime is the bracket liability — voters admire it, but admiration fades when the alternative is something that delivers in half the time. It ranks behind the other Frank Darabont film tracked here. At 1.9s average, voters make up their minds quickly — a gut preference rather than a weighed comparison.

Synopsis

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.

Round 1
51.3%
Semifinals
50%
10/20
Finals
40%

51%, 50%, 40%. Voters are genuinely divided regardless of when they encounter The Green Mile. No round breaks the tie; no round widens it.

The closest rivalry is with Captain Phillips at 51% — a matchup tight enough that a handful of votes could flip the lead. Apollo 13 at 17% is the toughest opponent in The Green Mile's bracket life. Saving Private Ryan causes similar problems at 25%.

Closest Rival
Kryptonite
Apollo 13
83.3%
Cast Away
75.0%

The path through Tom Hanks: America's Dad always ends the same way for The Green Mile: a final against Saving Private Ryan, a 75% loss rate. So close and so consistent.

Frank Darabont has 2 films on BingeBracket — The Green Mile trails The Shawshank Redemption (55%) in their head-to-head filmography comparison.

BingeBracket Record
49%
Win Rate
#12 of 29 in Fantasy #26 of 45 from the 1990s #2 of 2 Frank Darabont films
Scores based on real fan votes in head-to-head brackets. 50% = wins as often as it loses — perfectly average.
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#4 of 8 in Tom Hanks: America's Dad.

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Cast Away #1
Saving Private Ryan #2
Apollo 13 #3
The Green Mile #4
Forrest Gump #5
Big #6
Captain Phillips #7
Philadelphia #8
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