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Oct 14, 1994 · A drama based on Stephen King's short story about a banker wrongfully imprisoned in a gloomy jail and his friendship with a fellow inmate. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this classic film.
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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.
Mar 6, 2022 · The Shawshank Redemption is an American crime drama movie from 1994. It was written originally as a screenplay by Shawn Patrick Patterson and directed by Frank Darabont. The movie is...
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Sep 23, 1994 · "The Shawshank Redemption" is a movie about time, patience and loyalty -- not sexy qualities, perhaps, but they grow on you during the subterranean progress of this story, which is about how two men serving life sentences in prison become friends and find a way to fight off despair.
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.
Steeped in old-fashioned storytelling and given evergreen humanity by Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins, The Shawshank Redemption chronicles the hardship of incarceration patiently enough to come by...
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Oct 17, 1999 · A film critic's analysis of a prison drama based on Stephen King's story, starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. He praises the film's slow pace, calm narration, and themes of hope and friendship.
