Absolutely brilliant

Rating: 10/10 (25 December 1998)

The Shawshank Redemption is one of the few movies adapted from books that turned out to be good .. or in, this case, brilliant.
Although the movie supposedly takes place somewhen in the 1950's, I can easily imagine it being transferred to today's time and standards. The thing that is most fascinating about is is that the directors [and writers, of course] didn't use extreme clichés - there's no black and white painting, just numerous shades of grey. Robbins and Freeman both are perfect for their roles, as are all of the supporting actors.
Finally, I can understand why a certain movies gets a high ranking.