The Shawshank Redemption

directed by Frank Darabont
Category: "Drama"
Year of Release:1994
Date Added:04/05/2012
Date Watched:04/05/2012
Description:Andy (Tim Robbins) is wrongly sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife and her lover. He befriends Red (Morgan Freeman), and the two fight to stay sane, even when Andy is dragged into laundering money for the crooked warden. After 20 years, he breaks out, takes the warden's money out of a bank, gets the warden arrested and heads to rural Mexico. Red is released a short time later and finds Andy.
My Rating:8

Reviews for The Shawshank Redemption

Review - Shawshank Redemption, The

Gritty, with a lot of (pointless) foul language, but the basic message — "Get busy living or get busy dying" — as played out in the lives of the two leads and several supporting characters, was powerful.

Reviewed by Roger on 2012-04-05 22:16:23

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