Hope springs eternal for Andy Dufresne and Hollywood

Rating: 10/10 (26 March 2000)

A beautiful film, finely crafted, and completely deserving of the cult status it has gained since losing the Academy Award for Best Picture (unjustly) to "Braveheart" in 1995. Tim Robbins will never top his performance as the wrongly-convicted Andy Dufresne, and Morgan Freeman delivers the most effective voice-over narration in film history. I defy anyone not to be moved by the touching relationship between the two men, who grow old before our eyes as they serve out their sentences. One for history. I'll still get teary-eyed when I watch this fifteen years from now.