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The Shawshank Redemption
Year: 1994
Directed by: Frank Darabont
Written by: Stephen King, Frank Deborant

When I try to explain people about the existence of this movie I really don’t know where to start. I have absolutely no idea how I ended up watching this movie because I was pretty young when it came out but I know it turned to be one of my favorite movies of all time. Probably one of the most underrated movies and one of Hollywood’s all time classics, an adaptation from Stephen King’s novel “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”. The movie tells the story of Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), a banker wrongfully convicted for the murder of his wife and his lover.




Tim Robins gives the performance of a life time, he drags you into the character and helps you live through his eyes a terrific story of betrayals, hopes, dreams and friendships in which the good turn bad, the bad turn good. Tim Robbins does great work in Robert Altman's "The Player" famous for it's long take intro where there is no cut for over 5 minutes, and where the studio head kills the writer he thinks is blackmailing him. Or his best supporting actor oscar, winning turn in Mystic River.



"Shawshank Redemption is narrated by inmate Ellis “Red” Reeding (Morgan Freeman), it gives you a different perspective on prison movies and how this one man (Andy Dufresne) deals with his new dreadful life as an inmate, in which real crooks become his family and prison becomes their life.
This movie is a MUST WATCH, a story that has it all, harsh, sad, funny, and most importantly it will give you hope. Don’t try to run through it though, take your time and let it sink in, this is definitely a one of the best movies you will ever see.

This is a story about hope. About finally at the end escaping the prisons that hold you back.
Grade: Widescreen, but never goes beyond the theme of being trapped and escaping.

Review by Sabah.






Check out Frank Darabont's "The Majestic" with Jim Carrey for a similar inspiring combo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL8Hz_I9AGI

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