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I think Alex is very likeable but I feel sorry for his family wife and children. shawshank
This week's cover: 'It's Complicated' stars Alec Baldwin and Meryl Streep talk nudity | EW.com 2009
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#93 POSTED BY dev, Mar 2nd, 2010 11: 14 am sorry folks on my above post i mean to say well, i agree all the list with u (the author) except the shawshank redemption.
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#70 POSTED BY webber, Feb 17th, 2009 3: 41 pm the usual suspects, resevoir dogs, casino, chicago, all in my opinion are overrated movies. how can chicago win best picture over scorseses gangs of new york. i dont agree with you at all for putting shawshank redemption that was an excelent movie. the movies i listed should have been listed before shawshank.
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TDK is imo the best movie of the year so far and yep i also lost faith in the academy when forrest gump (9/10, i liked a lot) beat pulp fiction (best movie of 94) and shawshank.
For Your Consideration: The Dark Knight for Best Picture | /Film 2008
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#92 POSTED BY dev, Mar 2nd, 2010 11: 03 am well, i agree all the list with u (the author) except the shawshank redemption.
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It is like compiling a list of greatest novels and leaving out proust. loved the shawshank redemption by the way.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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Finally a Stephen King property that may be handled properly. dee_dee_n ummm...shawshank? green mile? the shining? the mist? dolores claireborn? misery?
Steven Spielberg Teams with Stephen King for Under the Dome | /Film 2009
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Con air, romeo juilet, se7en, shawshank redemption, demolition man, The hulk, the fugitive and a shite load more. theCurse
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Titanic 2? Say it aint so! 2006
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Containing tracks that shawshank into your brain and just drift around for hours, pushing everything else to one side, we're sure that we'd be listening to colourformoney by Drone a lot more if only some of it didn't plain unsettle us so much.
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Google: "condenados de shawshank" psicologia ambiental
Estado Web Artur 2006
fuffbee commented on the word shawshank
To do something of great magnitude with small, persistence force over time.
May 4, 2007
fuffbee commented on the word shawshank
Tim Robbins actions to escape his prison in "The Shawshank Redeption", where he had hidden a pickaxe in a Bible, and would work to dig an escape route whenever he had a chance. Though it took many years, he eventually shawshanked his way out to freedom.
May 4, 2007
uselessness commented on the word shawshank
Fascinating, I never realized the meaning of that. Thanks!
May 4, 2007
pjbaldes commented on the word shawshank
shawshank: Verb: to dig your way out of something through patience and persistence. Example: my cats shawshanked their way out of the house by scratching at the drywall in the closet for 7 years.
June 19, 2010