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Hi there. Malcolm here with something a bit different for you today.

It's an episode from our friends at What Went Wrong, a podcast all about how it's nearly

impossible to make movies, exploring the history behind one of the most

popular films of the mid-1990s. The Shawshank Redemption is the highest-rated movie on IMDB.

On this episode of What Went Wrong, host Lizzie Bassett and Chris Winterbauer explore the unexpected

journey Frank Deribon's

theatrical directorial debut

took from big screen disappointment

to near universally

beloved American classic.

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Kahn, Kite! And action, And action, Hello, and welcome

Hello, and welcome back to what went wrong, your favorite podcast, full stop, that just so happens to be about movies and how it is nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one, let alone what some people, I believe, think is one of the greatest movies of all time.

I am one of your hosts, Lizzie Bassett, here as always, with Chris Winterbauer.

And Chris, what movie do we have

for them today? Slingblade? Apparently, rude. That was my Morgan Freeman narrating 90% of the

Shawshank Redemption. And you can say I liked Andy from the start. Yes, we are discussing 1994 is the Shashank Redemption.

A film, many of us millennials, I can safely say, probably remember watching on television over and over and over again.

We will get to that. Lizzie, had you seen the Shshank Redemption before, I'm assuming that you had,

and what were your thoughts upon watching or re-watching it for the podcast?

Well, you mentioned television. That is the only place I've ever seen the Shawshank Redemption

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