The Shawshank Redemption

Sep 23, 1994

2h 22m

★ 8.7

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.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

Castle Rock Entertainment

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Cast

Andy Dufresne

Tim Robbins

Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

Morgan Freeman

Warden Norton

Bob Gunton

Heywood

William Sadler

Captain Byron T. Hadley

Clancy Brown

Tommy

Gil Bellows

Brooks Hatlen

James Whitmore

Bogs Diamond

Mark Rolston

1946 D.A.

Jeffrey DeMunn

Skeet

Larry Brandenburg

Jigger

Neil Giuntoli

Floyd

Brian Libby

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