The Shawshank Redemption

Time marches on and it's already time for another new theme.  Everyone has their ups and downs (or downs and ups) and that's exactly what we're dealing with this time around with "The Fall and Rise".  This cycle we'll be dealing with movies about characters who face a dramatic downfall only to make a comeback, either physically, emotionally or socially.  

The shakeup for this week is "must include a major flashback".  The movie must include one or more major flashbacks, where past events are integral to the understanding of the current story.

We'll be watching and discussing "The Shawshank Redemption" this week which fits the theme and shakeup on all accounts.  Starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, a banker convicted of uxoricide forms a friendship over a quarter century with a hardened convict, while maintaining his innocence and trying to remain hopeful through simple compassion.