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My favorite line..."Either get busy livin', or get busy dyin' "...This movie mirrored my life for a time so errily well...
This is my fav movie; great characters that draw you in.....When Tim Robbins decides to play the opera music and take the punishment....it has meaning
This was an awesome movie. One of my favs.
My number One favorite movie...great acting. Great theme. Great story. I watch it regularly and so does my daughter...I love Red's (Morgan Freeman's) character saying, "I'm a man whose known to locate things from time to time..."
Has to be one of the best movies, prison or not, ever done. Andy and Red's bond while in prison and the aftermath when they are released is a fantastic tribute to Steven King's excellent novel. Throughout the movie you keep wondering what will happen to Andy as he works for the warden and does taxes for the guards. He is so laid back while performing these mudane tasks the ending comes as a
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Variety
Central to the film's success is a riveting, unfussy performance from Robbins. Freeman has the showier role, allowing him a grace and dignity that come naturally. Full Review
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
Speaking of jail, "Shawshank"-the-movie seems to last about half a life sentence. The story, chiefly about the 20-year friendship between Freeman and Robbins, becomes incarcerated in its own labyrinthine sentimentality. Full Review
Elvis Mitchell
The New York Times
There are times when The Shawshank Redemption comes dangerously close to sounding one of those "triumph of the spirit" notes. But most of it is eloquently restrained. [23 Sept 1994, p.C3] Full Review
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
Whitmore's Brooks is a brilliantly-realized character, and the scenes with him attempting to cope with life outside of Shawshank represents one of the film's most moving -- and effective -- sequences. Full Review
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
Paradoxically, it is Shawshank's zealousness in trying to cast a rosy glow over the prison experience that makes us feel we're doing harder time than the folks inside. [23 Sept 1994] Full Review
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