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The Shawshank Redemption
1994
City Banker Andy Dufresne is in Shawshank State Prison after receiving a double life sentence for murder. There he meets Red and also forms friendships with the warden and prison guards. Andy soon finds that you either get on with living or you get on with dying. The bonus features stretch over two discs, which are sent out .. Read more
| Starring | Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Robert Gunton, William Sadler |
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| Director | Frank Darabont |
| Run time | 136 mins |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Drama |
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Ten years ago I reviewed a Tim Robbins movie for London's Time Out magazine. It was written and directed by a man I'd never heard of (Frank Darabont was his name) and it was based read more »
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154 out of 163 people found this review helpful
Is this the greatest movie ever made?
An all time classic. If you haven?t seen this movie yet, ensure that it is top of your list. It tells the story of wrongly accused murderer, Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), and his story of survival inside a maximum security prison, aided by his friendship with 'the only guilty man inside Shawshank', Ellis 'Red' Reddings (Morgan Freeman). Along the way it branches into at least six different side stories that, halfway through the movie, while still entertained, one wonders what they have to do with the plot. The answer is everything, as becomes apparent by the end.
I won't bore you with details of the individual craftsmanship that went into this movie, but I will advise anyone who has not seen it to see it, and as soon as possible. Keep watching until the end, and there is no possible way you can be disappointed. It is absolutely masterly directed by Frank Darabont, and while I thought that his other Stephen King-based film, The Green Mile, was fairly slow and self-indulgent, this isn't. It is drawn out and long, but absolutely impeccable and amazingly inspirational. It delivers the message that even in the face of abject adversity, hope will always prevail. This message was recently hammed up quite terribly in 'The Two Towers', but in The Shawshank Redemption, just one very simple quote sums it up: 'Hope is a good thing. Possibly the best thing. And no good thing ever dies'
This is one for the ages. I cannot imagine that the uplifting effect of this movie will ever die. There is no possible way it could be better. The only possible reason I can think of for not liking or being inspired by this movie is that you just don't want to. There are no two ways about it. Even after nine years, this holds strong as an absolute masterpiece of film-making, and a staggering achievement. -
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Outstanding
This is a prison film based mostly on one man who was wrongly accused and now faces life in prison.
The acting is tremendous and you really feel for all the men. A very touching story with an unexpected twist.
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The Mist
- 01 Jul 2008
It’s a strange kettle of fish when the latest film from the beloved Shawshank Redemption team of writer-director Frank Darabont and original author Stephen King is left languishing on the shelf for six months, then released against a couple of blockbusters. Such is the fate of The Mist, a rather anti-summer movie, and not only because of the weather. Reviews in the States last year were scarcely engaged and business was poor. Yet this doomsday horror movie emerges as one of the better... Read more
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