Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
Andy Dufresne, a mild mannered New England banker, is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. Despised at first by the other inmates because of his introverted manner, Andy slowly forges an unl...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 27, 1998
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Flixster Reviews (64,920)
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November 8, 2009This movie was really good! I kept getting distracted during it, and I'll have to watch it again sometime, but I liked it.
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October 4, 2009This is TOP NOTCH CINEMA! see this movie! excelent! All the actors were spot on. Tim Robbins was interesting because you cant really tell what he is thinking about wich greatly added to his character...he was great!
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September 15, 2009The Shawshank Redemption is the ultimate feel good film. Everything from the performances to the music is just perfect. It's not particularly original, it's stolen ideas from nearly every prison break film there is, but it doesn't matter, The Shawshank Redemption is beautiful and...( read more)
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July 27, 2009In this review I'm not going to give a plot synopsis of this film because I'm sure everybody else who has commented on it has. However, I will express the positive effect it can have on the viewer if they let it.
The acting is uncommonly magnificent. Morgan Freeman delivers the ...( read more) -
November 30, 2009They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. -Andy Dufrense
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November 25, 2009This is a movie set in a prison and it's unlike any movie you've ever seen. We've seen a lot of this stuff, but this is different from most prison films. a lot of prison films have a lot to do with escaping. This is highly different, and it may touch on prison breaks, but most of...( read more)
Critic Reviews
May 12, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
If the film is perhaps a little slow in its middle passages, maybe that is part of the idea, too, to give us a sense of the leaden passage of time, before the glory of the final redemption. full review
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March 28, 2009this is the film that indeed dearest to my heart. at first i ignored this one when i walk through a video store thinking nothing about it until i learned about their Oscar nominations. they had 7 Oscar nominations but went home nothing. so i give it a try, i rented it without single knowledge of what kind of movie this was (i was even curious about the title though) and the rest is history to me. i had vcd of this film (i don't have dvd coz i can't find it) and i never let anyone to borrow it because its a treasure to me and i can't find it anywhere in our country. this movie should stay forever and ever, amen!
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March 18, 2009I think this movie was one of the greatest movies ever made. It truly is realistic. It also gets you think about life. I would recommend this for anyone to watch.
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January 2, 2009one thing for sure....
this is the greatest movie ever made..
i watch it alone at first
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June 22, 2008Not even walls can hold hope confined.
Shawshank is a tale of freedom, friendship and the bond of overcoming struggle in the face of desperation.
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June 18, 2008When it comes to these internet discussion forums, I've been institutionalized. If I ever try to make it on the outside, I might end up hanging myself.
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February 24, 2008It plants in y0u that particular feeling, which makes really think of life.It's like watching the "25th frame" - y0u don't know what exactly is but it fills y0u.Whatever, great m0vie! :)
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