The Shawshank Redemption (Bonus 1994 Audience Choice)

For the tenth episode of our special retrospective season, we’re looking back to our season on the awesome movie year of 1994, the winning year in our audience choice poll, for Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption. Written and directed by Frank Darabont (based on the novella by Stephen King) and starring Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler and Clancy Brown, The Shawshank Redemption was nominated for seven Oscars and is often regarded as one of the greatest movies ever made.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-shawshank-redemption-1994), Janet Maslin in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/23/movies/film-review-prison-tale-by-stephen-king-told-gently-believe-it-or-not.html), and Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/1994/09/23/shawshank-redemption-3/).

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