An inspirational reflection of life's own tribulations

Rating: 10/10 (12 July 2000)

This and Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" rank side by side at the summit of my all-time favorites list (and no, I am not a Morgan Freeman freak).
This is the kind of movie that starts out solid and keeps driving at you...solid. It does not make any insultingly wrongful turns in logic nor does it infringe on your conception of what is believable and what is excruciatingly unbelievable.
This is a no-frills story of a man who is wrongfully accused of murdering his wife. The film's glorious irony, that his 19-years-long jail sentence is the best thing to happen to him in his life, slowly manifests itself.