The Shawshank Redemption (DVD)

...big epic tale or cover the planet using the beauty of the natural world as a backdrop. The Shawshank Redemption does none of theses things yet remains one of the most memorable and critically acclaimed films of modern cinema. It relies on the things that have films always had relied on prior to the modern explosion of studio technology and special affects, a good story and some great acting. It's a small and fairly slow story but it plays out with ...
...It defies a genre, compels the emotions and delivers a film of an artistic quality that Hollywood had been lacking for years and all from Frank Darabont's directorial debut. Based on the Stephen King novel "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" this is the story of Andy, a young banker, who finds himself in Shawshank prison for a double murder that he claims that he didn't commit. The ongoing joke in the prison is that everyone is innocent ...

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...Hollywood fodder for one reason: the delicate balance between style and substance. Style being the visual appeal of the film and the spectacle that it creates. Substance being the raw emotion, grit, blood, sweat and tears that lots of recent ‘flicks’ fail to achieve because their focus is that of style. There are not many modern films that can rival the charm, finesse and shear emotional satisfaction that can rival the classics. Thankfully the film ...
...“The Shawshank Redemption”: one of the best films of the last ten years and possibly ever made. “The Shawshank Redemption” was nominated for seven academy awards (including Best Film and Best Actor at the 1995 Academy Awards. It was however rapped at the 1995 Academy Awards by Forrest Gump (as was Pulp Fiction) but funny enough, The Shawshank Redemption has frequently been voted one of the greatest films of all time as has “Pulp Fiction” and where ...

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The Shawshank Redemption "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." When my mum sat me down about two years ago to watch The Shawshank Redemption, I don't know what I expected, but whatever it was this film managed to touch my heart. It's a story of injustice, a story of friendship, but most of all, a story of hope. ***The Plot*** The film starts with the trial of Andy Dufresne, and after being declared guilty, ...
...life sentences ahead of him. The other inmates are dubious of Andy at first, saying that he was "a real cold fish". Despite this, Andy forms an unlikely friendship with Red, the prison "fixer", that continues throughout the film. We then follow Andy's life in prison. You see when him and some other inmates tarred the license-plate factory roof and "sat with the sun on the back of [their] shoulders and felt like free men". He becomes Brooks' assistant ...

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...deciding what to watch on the TV that night and it happened to be on. My mum suggested we watch it saying it was quite good and told me that it was set in a prison. At that I screwed up my face at the thought of it. I mainly enjoy romantic comedies, Disney, thrillers and horror films. It fell into none of those categories. It just sounded dull and boring but I reluctantly agreed to watch it. Thank goodness I did. I'm glad my mum was insistent or ...
...It is set in the year 1947. It is a story of courage and brutal truths of what prison can be like and how all the inmates deal with it. Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) an intelligent banker, is convicted of two brutal murders. Of his wife, and her lover after having found out his wife was having an affair. The tale sees him on his journey though life at Shawshank. The story for the film, written by Stephen King couldn't be better. I have't read a lot ...

L.Yeomans 09.07.2003 (13.07.2003) · Read full review
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Based on the book 'Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption' the film stars Tim Robbins as Andy Dufrene and Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding as they spend their life in a fictional penitentiary in Maine. The prison is called Shawshank State Prison. The film follows Andy as he spends two decades in the cruelty of Shawshank and his friendship with Red, who is a fellow inmate. Like Green Mile, the film is about being wrongly convicted of a crime, ...
...the rest of his life in prison. ===The Cast=== Andy Dufrene (Tim Robbins): Robbins wasn't the first choice to play this role, Tom Hanks, Kevin Costner, Tom Cruise, Nicholas Cage and even Charlie Sheen were all considered for the role, but Robbins managed to come through and delivered a fantastic performance as Andy Dufrene. Red (Morgan Freeman): The king of narration wasn't the first choice either. The casting directors wasn't Harrison Ford of Robert ...

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The Shawshank Redemption is one of the best films I have ever seen. I don't make this claim lightly; it IS and I have watched a lot of good films over the years. When I first watched it , on a video borrowed from the library, I didn't expect it was going to have such a big impact on me. I thought it was going to be just another prison drama, but I was very wrong and really glad I had taken a chance and decided to take it home. Shawshank Redemption ...
...brutal American Penitentiary, and about the lives of the prisoners, the Gouvernor and the Prison Guards. It tells of the struggles of the inmates to survive and hopefully get parole and leave before they die, but it is about more than that! Not only is it a beautiful piece of cinema, - wonderfully shot, acted and written, it is also a portrait of the American Penal System from the 1940s onwards. It deals with the injustices, the poor conditions and ...

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...swimming with dolphins or visiting the Grand Canyon, watching The Shawshank Redemption is one of those things you have to do before you die. Directed by Frank Darabont (who later went on to make the extremely similar prison-based tear-jerker The Green Mile) this film was sadly neglected at the 1994 Oscars, with Forest Gump winning the main awards. Nor was it that successful commercially. However, since then, it has grown on audiences, and become ...
...that in previous reviews. The film tells the story of Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), a kind, intelligent man who is interested in rocks. He is convicted of the murder of his wife and the man she was having an affair with, although he always maintains his innocence, and is sent to the famously brutal Shawshank Prison. Inside, he makes friends with Red (Morgan Freeman), and they form a bond that stays strong throughout his years of confinement. However, ...

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...and Shawshank Redemption’, Shawshank Redemption the movie (1994) stars Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman as two prisoners, Andy Dufresne and Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding respectively. As well as being an examination of rough prison life, and a daring ‘escape’ adventure, the film is essentially about friendship, self-esteem and, above all, hope. The Story ========= Andy Dufresne, a quiet banker, is sent to Shawshank to serve ...
...inmate who is known as the prison ‘fixer’, a man who can get you anything for the right price. After a while – at first Andy keeps to himself with his head hung low – the two form an unlikely but very deep friendship. This friendship is the key to the ‘redemption’ of both men. Eventually Andy comes out of himself, awakened by the chance to build and run the prison library. Here he begins to teach other prisoners ...

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With the recent Channel 4 Shawshank weekend, I watched the film again for maybe the third time to see if I could work out why it has become such a classic in the eyes of so many people. Based on the novella Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King (from the Different Seasons collection which incidentally also contained The Body which was filmed as Stand By Me and The Apt Pupil which also made it into the movies), this, at the time, ...
...drafted in to sort out the guards’ tax returns, later being enlisted by the hypocritical governor (Bob Gunton) to run his various financial scams, all the while campaigning for a better library for the prison. Over the next 20 years. Andy becomes a source of constant inspiration to his fellow inmates, among them Red (Morgan Freeman who turns in another solid believable perfomance), who is the prison getter ( you want it, he gets it ) and who ...

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For me Shawshank is the best movie ever made. Written by Stephen King, it is the work of genius. The story is engrossing, inspiring and even overwhelming in parts. The locations are perfect, the actors performances, probably the best you will ever see. I already owned it on video and now I own it on DVD. Unfortunately the extras, or lack of them should I say, have really let this masterpiece down. I will give you a brief outline of the story. There ...
...more about that. I for the most part, will be concentrating on the DVD features. Cast/Characters ************ Tim Robbins – Andy Dufresne Morgan Freeman – Ellis ‘Red’ Redding Clancy Brown – Captain Byron Hadley Gil Bellows – Tommy Williams Mark Rolston – Bogs Diamond Bob Gunton – Warden Samuel Norton William Saddler – Heywood James Whitmore – Brooks Hatlen The Story ******* Set for the most part, in Shawshank prison, the story follows ...

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*** The plot *** It's difficult to do justice to the plot in a succinct few paragraphs without spoiling anything, but I'll do my best to stick to an outline. Don't worry! You won't find any spoilers! The Shawshank Redemption is a prison drama based on a short story penned by Steven King, "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption", written in 1982. Shawshank State Prison is a fictional penitentiary in Maine, USA. The movie was actually filmed in the ...
...of its imposing architecture. The film is narrated by an inmate known as Red who we learn more about as the movie progresses. It takes place in the latter half of the Forties and the plot centres around a young banker, Andy Dufresne. On the basis of wholly circumstantial evidence Andy is found guilty of murdering his wife and her lover and is given two life sentences to be served at the infamous Shawshank State Prison. Shortly after starting his ...

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...but Andy was different to the rest - he actually was innocent. So sets the scene for one of the best movies I have ever seen, The Shawshank Redemption, based on Stephen King’s short story, "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption". The story is narated by "Red" (played by Morgan Freeman) an old prison "Fixer", one of those men on the inside who can get anything you want from the outside, as long as it is not dangerous. Red tells the story ...
...time he goes he says the same thing, that he feels he is reformed, but always in vain… Andy (played by Tim Robbins) was a city banker, who was accused of brutally murdering his wife and her lover in a fit of rage. All the clues point to Andy, and as he has no alibi, he is sent down for life. Each time new prisoners come to Shawshank, one always breaks in the middle of the night, question is… which one? Shawshank is a top security prison, ...

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The Shawshank Redemption started life as 'Rita Hayworth and Shawkshank Redemption,' a short story from the extremely talented pen of one Stephen King. Any of you who have read some of my other ops will know how much of a god I think this guy is! But the problem with superb books is that they often make the transition into cinema as a very average film. Well The Shawshank Redemption was an above average short story that has become a wonderful, emotional ...
...And yes, I HAVE seen the classics. Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, Doctor Zhivago... but The Shawshank Redemption beats them all hands down. I first saw this film when it had it's first showing on BBC. I didn't know what it was (which is the reason it didn't do particularly well in the box office - The name suggested a relgious film!) and was channel hopping when I saw Tim Robbins sitting it a car holding a gun. What followed for nearly two hours ...

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...which film would be, but The Shawshank Redemption would definitely be in my top 10. I remember the film coming out in the UK in 1995 and seeing it on billboards but it never really appealed to me to go and see it. By chance, I bought the book only because it was a Stephen King novel. The book is called 'Different Seasons' and features 4 short stories and 3 of them have been made into films. Shawshank is from the story 'Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank ...
...Stephen King novel, none of the stories were horror based, instead concentrating on human emotions. After reading Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, I felt it was one of the best pieces that Stephen King had ever done and I didnt realise it was so old! I missed the opportunity to see the film at the cinemas (it had a very limited run) and had to wait until it came out on video before I could see it. Like most other Stephen King stories ...

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...English lesson, and everyone in the class who owns a DVD player laughs, or at least exchanges knowing looks. About 8 peoples hands shoot up, all wanting to give a variation on the same reply – “What…what did you call me?”, or “Obtuse, as in deliberate”, or “Solitary, a month”. You see, ever since I watched this movie and started to tell everyone in sight about it (including people on trains…I ...
...a) my threats to remove the eyes of anyone who doesn’t agree with me, and b) the movie being so ruddy fantastic. The Shawshank Redemption was released way back in 1994, to what I speculate to be critical acclaim. It stars Tim Robbins as Andy Defrense, a hotshot banker who gets convicted for the murder of his wife. And the man she was having an affair with, naturally. Andy is sent to Shawshank prison to serve a double life sentence. He makes ...

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