By far the most moving film

Rating: Null/10 (27 April 2013)

In the same year this awesome film was made, I watched Pulp Fiction which changed my interest in films from a pastime, to a major part of my life. However, for some odd reason I never saw Shawshank at the cinema and it wasn't until 1999 that I became the happy owner of this film on a ropey VHS tape. Two years passed by when Stella (Artois) were advertising a promotional event, enabling you to drink their beer whilst watching a movie in a quirky location relevant to the film. So we watched Dead Poet's at an Oxford College and then came this opportunity to view Shawshank at Oxford's old disused prison :-) Arriving at the prison, actors were dressed as U.S prison guards, verbally berating us and marched us through the fantastic old prison (now a swanky hotel), through to the prison yard where we viewed this epic again, but this time on a huge screen, in the best possible setting, with my lovely wife to be, and a few bottles of suds :-) To say this was the one of the best days of my life apart from our eventual wedding and the birth of our 2 children of course, is not an exaggeration! The sad thing is, nearly 20 years have gone by since the making of this film, and all flicks since have not touched the wonder of this movie.