Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
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.
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Character
Earnest, classical in form, resolved and meticulous.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
Who loves it, who doesn't
334 profiled raters. Loved most by The Sinceres; disliked most by The Provocateurs.
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“Does Morgan Freeman steal The Shawshank Redemption from Tim Robbins?”
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Reviews
We read them all: the case against is ruthless_ruth's, funniest is quinn.ironist's. Marked below.
- quinn.ironistFunniestThe Ironist★½
A greeting card with a prison in it. Every emotion is pre-approved. I know I am alone here and I am comfortable.
- ruthless_ruthThe case againstThe Provocateur★½
It is fine. It is a warm bath of a film and everyone I know treats it like scripture. Freeman's narration is doing a lot of the work people credit to the story.
Cast
- Tim RobbinsAndy Dufresne
- Morgan FreemanEllis Boyd 'Red' Redding
- Bob GuntonWarden Norton
- William SadlerHeywood
- Clancy BrownCaptain Byron T. Hadley
- Gil BellowsTommy
- James WhitmoreBrooks Hatlen
- Mark RolstonBogs Diamond
- Jeffrey DeMunn1946 D.A.
- Larry BrandenburgSkeet
Crew
- Frank DarabontDirector
- Frank DarabontScreenplay
- Stephen KingNovel
- Roger DeakinsDirector of Photography
- Thomas NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Richard Francis-BruceEditor
- Niki MarvinProducer
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