Aisle Seat Animation Edition

By Andy Dursin
The Aisle Seat Blog
www.andyfilm.com

Long before some viewers discovered it on video, prior to it becoming a classic film that was embraced by the masses, Frank Darabont's THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (****, 136 mins., 1994, R; Warner) was a little movie that almost nobody saw.

Yet for those of us who did see the movie upon its original release in September 1994, you knew immediately that Darabont -- adapting a Stephen King novella -- had produced something truly extraordinary: an absorbing, beautifully acted and masterfully told period story about the relationship between two men (Tim Robbins' Andy Dufrense and Morgan Freeman's "Red" Redding) in a Maine prison, their aspirations to live outside the confines of their existence and eventually break free, both spiritually and physically, from their surroundings.

Splendidly shot by Roger Deakins, designed by Terence Marsh, and scored ... (continued)

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