Excellent story, Excellent directing, Excellent acting

Rating: 10/10 (12 January 2012)

I will start with a basic summary:
This movie starts out with a banker(Tim Robbins) who supposedly killed his wife and her lover while drunk. This led to a conviction and prison sentence. Most of the story takes place in this prison, Shawshank. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman are the main characters, who become best friends who use their friendship as a means to escape from the hell of prison and the devil in their warden.
Tim (Andy), a brilliant man, manages to make a slightly better prison life for himself and his fellow inmates by helping out the warden with basic office things. However, this was not enough for him. He need to escape, and escape he did in the most spectacular way.
Now, I will give my opinion on the film:
This film is something that you should devote time to watching when you have no interruptions. Turn off your cellphone and unplug your home phone before watching it because the greatness of this film is something that shouldn't be interrupted. The story line is perfect. The acting is perfect. The characters are so deep and gripping. The setting is excellent. If you have money, I would definitely recommend that you buy this in blu-ray (if you have blu-ray player) and connect it to a surround sound system, because you will want to hear every spoken word, every fallen leaf, every gust of wind, every detail.
This is one of about only 5 movies that I give a solid 10 stars.