I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged

Rating: 10/10 (13 April 2008)

Perhaps the best line in the film can also be used to describe this film; a caged bird (the film) that shouldn't be locked up (at the video store).
"The Shawshank Redemption" can be described in only one word: Powerful.
It is my favorite movie.
Let me give you a short summary. Andy Drufesne (pronounced Dufrene; and played by Tim Robbins (Bull Durham)), the vice president of a large Portland, Maine bank, is given a life sentence in Shawshank Prison after he is accused of murdering his wife and her lover, run by religious Warden Norton (Bob Gunton) and sadistic Captain Hadley (Clancy Brown). He befriends fellow prisoner Red (Morgan Freeman (Driving Miss Daisy)). Over a few decades, Andy befriends the inmates, begins a library, education system and work program. But Andy is innocent, and has trouble convincing the authorities of that, and the film works up to the inspirational and excellent climax.
Robbins and Freeman blend into their roles like chameleons, and the script is well written.
I will sum up the review in this one statement: go see it.
You will not be disappointed.