Shawshank Redemption

How can you not love Morgan Freeman? Also the music is breathtaking. A good movie, but not great. It didn't really strike me as being anything more special than say The Green Mile which was also directed by Frank Darabont. Does anyone else think that Tim Robbins and Tom Hanks look a lot alike? I think Darabont has a penchant for historical prison dramas with white protagonists with a black sidekick. Freeman and Robbins are standouts, particularly Robbin's ability to remain silently stoic. The movie serves as as sort of good "Christian-style" parable. The ending is fun.