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www.paloaltoonline.com - : Unless you feel compelled to discover how imprisoning 140 minutes of harsh brutality and simple-minded, self-congratulatory humanism can be, spare yourself from this redemption. Written and directed by Frank Darabont. more...
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movie-reviews.colossus.net - : Spanning the years from 1947 through 1966, The Shawshank Redemption takes the ''innocent man in prison'' theme and bends it at a different angle. Instead of focusing on crusades for freedom, the movie ventures down a less-traveled road, concentrating on the personal cost of adapting to prison life and how some convicts, once they conform, lose the ability to survive beyond the barbed wire and iron bars. As one of the characters puts it: ''These [prison] walls are funny. First you hate them, then you get used to them, then you start to depend on them.'' more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : ''The Shawshank Redemption'' is a movie about time, patience and loyalty -- not sexy qualities, perhaps, but they grow on you during the subterranean progress of this story, which is about how two men serving life sentences in prison become friends and find a way to fight off despair. more...
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