Film · Drama
The Shawshank Redemption
“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”
19942h 22mDir Frank Darabont8.7TMDB
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
Top Cast
59 total
Tim Robbins
as Andy Dufresne
Morgan Freeman
as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
Bob Gunton
as Warden Norton
William Sadler
as Heywood
Clancy Brown
as Captain Byron T. Hadley
Gil Bellows
as Tommy
James Whitmore
as Brooks Hatlen
Mark Rolston
as Bogs Diamond
The scene we cut
Get busy living
Get busy living or get busy dying and Red thinks his friend is giving up.
It lost Best Picture to Forrest Gump and only found its audience on VHS and TV reruns.
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