The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption is now the highest-rated film on IMDb's Top 250, a fixture of cable rotation, and shorthand for cinematic hope itself. But in 1994, it was a box office failure; a $25 million adaptation of a Stephen King novella. It opened on just 33 screens, and despite fantastic test screenings, got buried under Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump. A movie that was destined to be a huge success, disappeared uneventfully from cinema screens, and usually that's the end of the story.
But destiny had its own plans for The Shawshank Redemption.
A movie about hope, patience and decades-long…
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