One of the best of the last 30 years

Rating: 10/10 (24 July 2002)

Best prison movie since The Great Escape. One of the most satisfying climaxes of any movie ever made. Morgan Freeman should have won the Oscar for best actor. Relative unknown Bob Gunton (one of those actors you see, but you never know his name) is also brilliantly despicable as Warden Samuel Norton. Like many classics, despite its modest box office appeal, Shawshank will grow in stature through the years and will be recognized as an all time great.