The Shawshank Redemption
A banker serving a life sentence for a double murder he denies finds a way to endure and quietly plan his escape inside Shawshank prison.
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About the film
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
What it’s about
Convicted of killing his wife and her lover, banker Andy Dufresne enters Shawshank prison, where brutality and corruption rule on both sides of the bars. His accounting skills soon draw the warden's attention, pulling him into schemes that test his integrity. Fellow inmate Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding becomes a steady presence as Andy adapts to a life that grinds men down.
What hooks you
Frank Darabont directs Tim Robbins as Dufresne and Morgan Freeman as Red. The film received seven Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and was based on Stephen King's novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption." The production used the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, which was so dilapidated that it had to be restored for filming.
Who it’s for
It is worth a look for anyone who is drawn to stories of quiet resilience, long-term friendship, and the slow burn of hope against institutional cruelty. It will also satisfy those who appreciate character-driven drama with a strong sense of place and moral weight.
- Country
- United States
- Year
- 1994
- Genres
- Blockbuster, Drama, Crime
- Running time
- 2h 22min
- Age rating
- 16+
- MPAA
- R
- World premiere
- Sep 10, 1994
×1.1box office to budget
Ratings
MOVIE․ONE · 1,612 votesCreative team
All 9
Trivia
All facts 10
- The film is based on Stephen King's novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, published in the collection Different Seasons (1982).
- The filming took place at the Mansfield Correctional Institution in Ohio. The prison was in such a deplorable state that it had to be brought into proper shape.
- According to the writer himself, Stephen King's original novella was the culmination of all his impressions from the various prison films he watched in childhood.
- Stephen King agreed to sell the rights to his work for practically nothing, as he and Frank share a long-standing strong friendship. This happened after Frank had quite successfully adapted King's short story "The Woman in the Room."
- The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals criticized the film, in which the only representative of the fauna was old Brooks's crow. The film has a scene of feeding the bird a worm found during lunch in the main character's plate. The Society insisted that an already dead larva that had died a natural death be used. After such a specimen was found, the scene was shot.
- The role of Tommy Williams was originally written for Brad Pitt.
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
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1994
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1994
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1994