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Rating: 7/10 (27 April 2014)

Talk about not getting it. The clue to just how badly the reviewer missed lies in the title. The theme is REDEMPTION, not hope or sentimental treacle or the evils of capital punishment and Rush Limbaugh. Further, it's a FANTASY, as close to Neal Gaiman as Stephen King has ever come. (Hint: Fantasies aren't supposed to be real.) Nor is Andy Dufresne a Cooperesque character. Rather, he is written as diffident, difficult, and entirely unlovable at first blush. See my next. All these comments are funny. I'm glad Glieberman wrote this review. Everything he says about this overrated piece of goop is true. It IS sentimental and exploitative, and makes prison seem trivial; who cares about the rape if eventually I'll be redeemed, Hollywood style? The characters are thinly portrayed, and it has little connection with grit or honesty. Along with Forrest Gump and Gone With The Wind, one of the most overpraised movies ever made.