A good movie? Definitely...Deserving of the #1 spot of IMDb's Top 250? No

Rating: 9/10 (14 March 2009)

The Shawshank Redemption is an academy-award nominated 1994 film starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.It was based on a short novella by Stephen King entitled "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption", which was featured in the collection entitled "Different Seasons".This novella collection also includes the novellas which were later made into the movies "Apt Pupil" and "Stand By Me".Stephen King is actually my favorite author and I really enjoyed the novella.Now for the movie.I watched it a few months ago and I found that it was very good.The acting is superb, Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman are great, the storyline, characters etc were all great.It is a great movie.However it definitely does not deserve to be #1 on IMDb's Top 250 movie list or any top movie list for that matter.I liked the novella a bit more though there were some changes in the film that I liked better.The film is directed by Frank Darabont who would later make the amazing and superior(in my opinion) "The Green Mile".Overall, Shawshank is definitely one of the best prison movies of all time, though it is a tad overrated.