Ultimately my favorite movie!

Rating: 10/10 (4 December 2015)

The Shawshank Redemption stands as a truly great film. It is not an action movie, so time is taken to set up the characters. Based on a short story by Stephen King (which is truly extraordinary), the plot follows a man wrongly convicted for murdering his wife. The rest of the movie follows his time spent in Shawshank Prison.
Written for the screen and directed by Frank Darabont, this movie turned out to be a box office flop; ironically, it went on to become one of the most rented movies of 1995 (similar to It's A Wonderful Life). And since then, it has become the top rated movie on this website.
This movie is not action packed, but it is packed full of emotion. Beware of watching it: you may become addicted to it. And that is a good thing.