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The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American prison drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.
Oct 14, 1994 · A classic drama based on Stephen King's short story about a wrongfully convicted banker who befriends a fellow prisoner in a gloomy jail. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this top-rated film.
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Sep 23, 1994 · A movie about two prisoners who form a friendship and fight despair in Shawshank Prison. Based on a Stephen King story, directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.
Synopsis. In 1947, Andy Dufresne ( Tim Robbins ), a banker in Maine, is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, a golf pro. Since the state of Maine has no death penalty, he is given two consecutive life sentences and sent to the notoriously harsh Shawshank Prison.
Instead, in one of the most remarkable stories in home video history, it found its real mass audience on tapes and discs, and through TV screenings. Within five years, "Shawshank" was a phenomenon, a video best seller and renter that its admirers feel they've discovered for themselves.
Sep 23, 1994 · Learn about the 1994 movie adaptation of Stephen King's short story, directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. Find out the plot, the cast, the format and the distributor of the film.