The Shawshank Redemption (1995)
Director: Frank Darabont
Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
UK Release Date: 17th February 1995
Have i mentioned before i'm not a good film student? Well because i've not seen many of the film 'classics' i'm often faced with the issue that when i come to view theses films they fail to live up with the high expectations people created for them. So how was the film that is the highest rated film on IMDb going to cope under the mountain of pressure put on it to be amazing? Well, i LOVED it!! Shawshank is a true Hollywood story of friendship in the face of adversity. It also manages to break one of the biggest film conventions and not feature a romantic subplot. Yes, it's a long film but still manages to hold your attention for its entire run. The entirely engaging way it looks at a setting that many of us will never set foot in is true cinematic brilliance and Darabont manages to get the audience to engage with characters that in any other film would be treated as villainous. At the heart of this is possibly the most likable and lovable actor of all time, Morgan Freeman, who is at the height of his talents here and is the actor who manages to hold the whole film together, surrounded of course by dozens of great performances. The Shawshank Redemption will go down in history as one of the greatest works of film of all time and quite frankly it deserves too. Utter Brilliance.
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