Oh Stephen, WAKE UP!!!!

Rating: 2/10 (19 July 2002)

When you become one of the most famous novelist alive in America today, somehow the people around you should be bold enough to tell you;
One: you wrote the best prison story of all time, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, so why go back to the same arena to write of prisons again?
Two : the movie is not beliveable because of what happens in the first few minutes of the film, and where the film is set. In the South in the 1930's, a black man is seen holding two dead young white girls. He is found by a group of gun totting redneck yahoos. Duh boom boom boom boom boom end of movie.
Black men were lynched in the South up to the 1950's and maybe even the 60's for just looking at a white woman.
Someone should have told Stephen to write about lobstering or write a cookbook.