The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

09/23/1994 (US) • 2h 22m

Drama, Crime

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

Overview

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 Billed Cast

Tim Robbins

Andy Dufresne

Morgan Freeman

Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

Bob Gunton

Warden Norton

Clancy Brown

Captain Byron T. Hadley

James Whitmore

Brooks Hatlen

Mark Rolston

Bogs Diamond


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$25,000,000.00

Revenue

$28,341,469.00

Keywords

prison

friendship

police brutality

corruption

based on novel or book

freedom

hope

prison cell

delinquent

redemption

parole board

prison escape

wrongful imprisonment

interracial friendship

framed for murder

1940s

voiceover

adoring

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