The Shawshank Redemption

Why watch

Starlit Cine editors

• Best for fans of drama about friendship and hope; Frank Darabont wrote and directed it.
• Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman and Bob Gunton star, based on a Stephen King novella.
• About 2 hours 22 minutes, released on 22 September 1994 and slow-paced.

Synopsis

The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. The film tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne, who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murders of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence. Over the following two decades, he befriends a fellow prisoner, contraband smuggler Ellis "Red" Redding, and becomes instrumental in a money laundering operation led by the prison warden Samuel Norton. William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, and James Whitmore appear in supporting roles.

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Director & cast

• F

  Frank Darabont

  Director

• T

  Tim Robbins

  Andy Dufresne

• M

  Morgan Freeman

  Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding

• B

  Bob Gunton

  Samuel Norton

• W

  William Sadler

  Heywood

• J

  James Whitmore

  Brooks Hatlen

• C

  Clancy Brown

  Byron Hadley

• G

  Gil Bellows

  Tommy Williams

• M

  Mark Rolston

  Bogs Diamond