Watch this when
The Shawshank Redemption
Twenty years inside, and he still found ways to be free. Hope is a discipline, not a feeling.
Who it's for
Andy keeps a sense of self in a place designed to erase it: he builds a library, plays music for the whole prison and quietly works on his escape for years.
Hopeless→Hopeful
Feelings it meets
What it is
Frank Darabont wrote and directed this 1994 adaptation of Stephen King's 1982 novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. In 1947, banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sentenced to two life terms for the murders of his wife and her lover, despite saying he is innocent, and is sent to Shawshank State Prison.
Where to find it
Rent or buy on major digital stores. Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: Suicide and implied prison rape.
Age: R (MPAA)
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line,W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
