The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Cautiously Recommended

USA
Feature Film
Director: Frank Darabont
Writers: Frank Darabont, Stephen King
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
Composer: Thomas Newman
Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, Mark Rolston, James Whitmore

Although hamstrung somewhat by the speechifyingly unrealistic dialogue and a general lack of credibility when it comes to prison life, Darabont’s sprawling portrait of a mild mannered banker, wrongly imprisoned for the murder of his wife and her lover, is, never the less, by the time that it gets to its thoroughly satisfying conclusion, an entertainingly rewarding experience. Iain.Stott