4/100 The Shawshank Redemption
Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection4 The Shawshank Redemption Tim Robbins Morgan Freeman – P 2014 Director: Frank Darabont Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inflation, 2014): $53,014,600Famous quote: “Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” – Andy Dufresne [in letter to Red]Of all the adaptations of Stephen King stories — and they are legion because he is the most-adapted living writer — this is only one of two (along with The Shining) to make the list. All that Shawshank love apparently came after the film’s unexceptional theatrical release, when it began popping up on cable TV nearly as regularly as Geico commercials. In 2013, 151 hours of basic cable time was devoted to airing the 142-minute movie. That’s about six days of watching Robbins try to escape from prison.
