It is an adaptation of the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. The Shawshank Redemption is written and directed by Frank Darabont.
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It takes a movie like The Shawshank Redemption to touch the soul. The best movies are ones that touch the soul. They may have the best technique or be the most influential motion pictures ever made, but not the best. I have read that Citizen Kane or The Godfather or this or that movie is the best movie ever made. I do not judge it by it's technical merits - I don't really care about that. The Shawshank Redemption and To Kill a Mockingbird are the best movies I have ever seen. No action, no special effects - just men in prison uniforms talking to each other. I have watched it many many times since then and it gets better with every showing. I remembered what she said, so I watched it. One day there was nothing on TV except things I absolutely would not watch under any circumstance or things that I had seen too many times already. I work at a branch library and one day as I was checking The Shawshank Redemption out to one of our older patrons, she said to me, "Whenever I feel down or depressed, I check out this movie and watch it and it always makes me feel better." At the time, I thought that was very strange. I didn't intend to see this movie at all: I do not like prison movies and I don't normally watch them. Both movies leave me feeling cleaner for having watched them.
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The only other movie I have ever seen that effects me as strongly is To Kill a Mockingbird. But like so many other people who wrote comments, I was and am profoundly moved by this simple and eloquent depiction of hope and friendship and redemption. Why do I want to write the 234th comment on The Shawshank Redemption? I am not sure - almost everything that could be possibly said about it has been said.