Support our work! Corona Column 3 Use these free activities to help kids explore our planet, learn about global challenges, think of solutions, and take action. Kid reviews for The Shawshank Redemption. Common Sense says Gritty prison tale has positive messages, lots of profanity. Based on our expert review.
Based on 40 reviews. Based on reviews. Add your rating. Parents say 40 Kids say Teen, 15 years old Written by hayal12 July 26, Highly engaging, inspirational and touching 'The Shawshank Redemption' paints a harsh yet resilient picture of underdogs standing up to a corrupt and unjust system and coping with whatever trials life may throw at them.
At its heart is the friendship between two inmates serving life sentences in a high-security prison in which practically all the jailbirds are victims of gross miscarriages of justice. Together they weather an onslaught of cynically cruel guards, prison rapists, and a tyrannical and manipulative warden. The completely satisfying end to their story serves as a reminder that evil never triumphs and that unfaltering hope will sustain you. However, expect frequent bad language and less frequent, but more explosive, violence.
This title contains: Positive Messages. Positive role models. This review Helped me decide 1. Had useful details 2. Read my mind 1. Report this review. This is just such an inspiriational film with emotion and themes full of merit. The acting is great. Tim Robbins is very good, but Morgan Freeman gave the best performance of this entire movie. He fit the character of Red perfectly. The story is a classic- a wrongfully-convicted man tries to find hope.
The message and themes in the screenplay of hope are just so emotional and heart-throbbing. I loved watching this film. It was an experience of multiple emotions. The screenplay and direction is perfect. Donate About Us Contact Us. The Shawshank Redemption R - 7. Subscribe to our newsletter Know when new reviews are published We will never sell or share your email address with anybody and you can unsubscribe at any time.
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Check your inbox for a welcome email. Email address required. First Name. There is also a scene in which a character crawls through yards of a sewer pipe filled with excrement. There is also frequent profanity, including "f--k" and its variations. However, the film also shows inmates forming a loving community of friendship and support despite oppressive conditions and a sense of maintaining perseverance and hope in the darkest of hours.
Add your rating See all 40 parent reviews. Add your rating See all kid reviews. It's , and Andy doesn't have the stuff for prison life. Andy befriends "Red" Redding Morgan Freeman and uses his past as a banker to get a job in the prison library. But things unravel. In doing the books for the warden, he learns that the prison boss is taking bribes, and Andy is to launder them. A lovable former inmate hangs himself when he gets to the outside but can't adjust after decades behind bars.
The inmate whom Andy helps get his GED is shot by the guards to keep him quiet about information that might prove Andy is innocent of the murders and set him free. Andy spends two months in solitary. After he gets out, he seems depressed and Red worries he'll kill himself.
The next day, Andy isn't dead, but he isn't there, either -- he's escaped. The rest is a perfect Stephen King happy ending, complete with comeuppance for the corrupt warden. This is a movie that stands the test of time and still resonates with viewers. Call this the Stand by Me of prison stories. Here we have all the things that made Stand by Me such a satisfying experience: loveable characters, writerly flourishes, one-dimensional evil antagonists, enduring friendships, poetic justice, and a happy ending.
This one is far darker and far more violent than Stand by Me and so ought to be reserved only for older teens. The story is slow to develop, and younger kids and children sensitive to the suffering of others may find this world a difficult one to sit with for the film's duration.
Having said all that, the film is satisfying but cloying. Andy is the minister of the healing power of hope. He educates the inmates on the healing power of Mozart.
He builds a library. He asks Red why he stopped playing the harmonica. When Red replies that it's no use in prison, Andy looks at him soulfully and replies that "here's where you need it the most. Families can talk about the ways oppressed people have kept their spirit historically -- for example, through spirituals created by slaves. How would you handle such a bleak future? Why did Brooks feel more comfortable in prison than out of prison? Why did Andy get Red a harmonica?
What did that represent? Why did Red and Andy disagree on whether they should have hope for a better life? Did their class and race affect their approaches? This movie attempts to show the life of inmates in a prison in s Maine. While much has changed about prison life since that time, does the "institutionalization" discussed in the movie seem like it would be a problem today?
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