In the end they beat the system in a most unique way. At the same time he and the cell block scrounger Morgan Freeman develop a close personal relationship. He may be a con, but Robbins still has all his knowledge of finances and pretty soon he's made himself quite invaluable to the warden and the rest of the staff at the prison. Like Luke and Bob Stroud he works out his own rehabilitation and rebels against the prison system.
In the tradition of Cool Hand Luke and Birdman Of Alcatraz comes Tim Robbins who was a banker on the outside, but when he caught his wife cheating on him with a golf pro from their country club, he's convicted of putting eight bullets in them, four apiece and tried and sentenced to two consecutive life terms in Shawshank prison. But the real world of that Maine prison has some bizarre rules of its own and there's a whole new reality within those walls.
None of the usual otherworld creatures that populate the works of Stephen King are to be found in The Shawshank Redemption. Reviewed by bkoganbing 9 / 10 'I Had To Go To Prison To Learn To Be A Crook'
