Andy Dufresne
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Oct 14, 1994 · The Shawshank Redemption: Directed by Frank Darabont. With Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler. Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.
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- Drama
- Frank Darabont
- 1994-10-14
Over the following two decades, he befriends a fellow prisoner, contraband smuggler Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), and becomes instrumental in a money laundering operation led by the prison warden Samuel Norton .
Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to a tough prison.
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- Frank Darabont
- R
- Tim Robbins
When an innocent male banker is sent to prison accused of murdering his wife, he does everything that he can over the years to break free and escape from prison. While on the inside, he develops a friendship with a fellow inmate that could last for years.
Sep 23, 1994 · 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.
Sep 23, 1994 · A movie review of the 1994 film based on Stephen King's story, starring Morgan Freeman as a lifer who befriends a banker (Tim Robbins) in prison. The review praises the film's quiet power, its themes of time and redemption, and its performances.
The film's opening scene shows him being given two life sentences for the murder of his wife and her lover, and then we move, permanently, to a point of view representing the prison population and particularly the lifer Ellis 'Red' Redding (Morgan Freeman). It is his voice remembering the first time he saw Andy ("looked like a stiff breeze ...
