A Story Of Survival and Hope

Rating: 10/10 (14 February 2007)

*The Shawshank SPOILERS*
In the early '20s, Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), a quiet bank employee, is arrested, tried and sentenced to life in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover, murders that he didn't commit.
The calm man has to rough up really soon, in order to survive life in the Shawshank prison, but manages to develop a friendship with a fellow inmate called Red (Morgan Freeman) and to be employed in the contability office by the corrupt director of Shawshank, thus helping his escape plan...
When I first watched this movie, a few years ago, I was so in awe that as soon as I got out of school (where me and my classmates watched it during a morning without teachers) I went and bought it.
It's an instant classic, an inspiring movie, based upon a short story by Stephen King (!), marvelously written, acted and directed, and fully deserving of being owned.
The Shawshank Redemption: 10/10.