Director Frank Darabont adopted the screenplay from a Stephen King novella and made his directorial debut with this movie. Movie is all about two prisoners who met in the prison and were imprisoned for many years lived their life in solitude. It tell the story of a prisoner Andy Dufrense (Tim Robbins) who has been into prison for a killing his wife and her lover which he didn't commit and has to serve two life sentences in the prison. He meets a fellow prisoner named Red (Morgan Freeman) in the jail who is already serving a life sentence for murdering when he was young and can get anything in the jail. He later on becomes the best buddy of Andy and helps him getting different things in the prison.
The prison life of Andy has been described in a very smooth way and the ups and downs in his prison life are shown in a seamless manner. The whole story is narrated by Red in the movie by which director keeps the few parts of Andy's life quiet mysterious. The slow but steady flow of movie makes it more interesting and keeps us glued. The climax of the movie is outstanding and touches the heart.
The movie was released in the year 1994 along with the movies "Forest Gump" and "Pulp Fiction". It was nominated for 7 Oscars but unfortunately didn't won any of them. I would surely recommend you to watch this movie
I will rate this movie 5/5
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