all time favorite

Rating: 10/10 (14 July 2016)

This movie is an all time fave of mine. the story telling is brilliant and the acting excellent! it is a story of a very long friendship between two convicted men. they go through rough times together in prison but also have the occasional happy moment they share amongst themselves as well as a well mixed bunch of other inmates from all sorts of walks of life. Eventually the pay off comes when Andy finally receives his small tool for rock carving and we eventually find out he's been using this tiny hammer, the size of a pinky finger, to ever so patently dig himself out of prison. The sheer amount of years it would have taken him to do so is unfathomable! The ending is amazingly sweet and it makes for a feel good film over and over again! happy watching