Quite simply, a film that should never be forgotten

Rating: 10/10 (3 August 2013)

'Get busy livin' or get busy dyin', that's damn right'.
A stand-out performance from the magnificent movie maestro Morgan Freeman, whom leads this spectacular motion picture with fantastic style as the enigmatic convict known as Red, earning himself a well deserved Academy Award nomination. Tim Robbins plays our main protagonist, Andy Dufresne, an innocent banker charged with the murder of his wife, a crime he did not commit. The film chronicles Dufresne's time in Shawshank Penetentiary, from the first day meeting the 'more-than welcome' guards, to dirty deals with corrupt Warden Sharp (played by a superb Bob Gunton), to befriending characters like Red and Brooks, a 70-something long-sentence server acting as librarian (played by James Whitmore, in one of his later roles) and to the momentous break-out, symbolising everything this film stands for: hope.
Shawshank is the perfect movie, great story, great actors and a great director. The culmination of captivating music and scintillating atmosphere transform this movie into something more: a legend.
I would thoroughly recommend this film to anyone, it is a must watch.