10 Greatest Movie Endings Of All Time

8. The Shawshank Redemption http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRBl0GPBm4o Long after Andy Dufresne ingeniously carved out a secret tunnel behind a poster of Raquel Welch with a rock hammer and escaped through the stinking sewers of Shawshank Prison, Red completed his 40 years but, much like Brooks, struggles to adapt to life on the outside, and feels he never will. He remembers a promise he made to Andy to visit Buxton, where he finds a cache containing money and a letter, asking him to come to Zihuatanejo. In the end, the two friends are reunited as free men. What makes the ending of The Shawshank Redemption so powerful is mainly the narrative provided by Morgan Freeman on the bus, it still makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck; Freeman could quite literally be talking about puting the trash out and it'd still be poetic.

 
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