This is a very clever film that taps into human nature at its best and worst. Tim Robbins plays the hot shot city banker who is jailed for life in Shawshank Prison for the murders of his wife and her lover. 1940’s America and the prison guards are more corrupt and easily as brutal as the inmates themselves. Morgan Freeman plays Red, the “Norman Stanley Fletcher” of Shawshank who operates a neat little racket as a smuggler of practically anything you could wish for. Tim Robbins (Andy Dufresne) becomes indispensable as his banking skills are exploited. A long film but with plenty of drama, suspense and story telling to help you along the way so getting a toilet break will be difficult. To sum up, superb particularly the end.
IMDB: The Shawshank Redemption
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