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(- 1994 -)

Original Title Shawshank Redemption, The Director Frank Darabont Genre Drama Released 1994-09-10 MPAA Rating None Rated 9

Plot Summary

Andy Dufresne is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Set in the 1940's, the film shows how Andy, with the help of his friend Red, the prison entrepreneur, turns out to be a most unconventional prisoner.

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Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne, Inmate 37927 , Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding , Bob Gunton as Warden Samuel Norton , William Sadler as Heywood, Inmate 32365 , Clancy Brown as Capt. Byron Hadley , Gil Bellows as Tommy Williams, Inmate 46419 , Mark Rolston as Bogs Diamond , James Whitmore as Brooks Hatlen, Librarian , Jeffrey DeMunn as District Attorney (1946) , Larry Brandenburg as Skeet , Neil Giuntoli as Jigger, Inmate 33105 , Brian Libby as Floyd, Inmate , David Proval as Snooze, Inmate , Joseph Ragno as Ernie, Inmate , Jude Ciccolella as Mert (guard)

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Truly one of the finest films of all time, it has no flaws. "The Shawshank Redemption" truly has no flaws, and is a gripping presentation from start to finish. One of the very few I rate 10 of 10. Though all actors are superb, three stand out above the rest - Robbins as Dufresne, Freeman as "Red", and Gunton as the most evil warden you will ever see, who smiles with the Bible in one hand while he orders you shot to death with the other. The movie is about 2 hours and 15 minutes but never seems long. Every scene is just right, and there is very much, interesting character development throughout the film. CAUTION - SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW: Dufresne, a straight-arrow banker, is sent to the Maine prison, Shawshank, for two consecutive life terms, convicted of a double murder of his wife and her lover. He contends, even after years in prison, that he did not do it. "Red" has a way to get almost anything, even "Rita Hayworth". He and "Red" become friends and trust each other. Meanwhile, his talents eventually get discovered, he ends up doing IRS returns for all the guards each year, teaches GED,he writes weekly letters to the state and after 6 years gets books and money to expand the prison library. The warden begins to use the prisoners as his own "construction crew" and gets money, illegally, from the outside. Dufresne sets up accounts in a fictitious name to hide the earnings, and becomes the warden's personal accountant. Through a chance encounter by another prisoner, in a prior prison stay, it is discovered who the real killer of Dufresne's wife and lover really was. Of course, the warden doesn't want any part of trying to reverse Dufresne's conviction, because he is best served with him inside. Dufresne is thrown in "solitary" for 2 months for even suggesting that he might get out. This realization sobers Dufresne, and his total focus becomes his freedom. With his small prospector's hammer, and hidden by a large "pin-up" poster on his cell wall, he has secretly been digging a tunnel, and carrying out dirt in his pockets to be spread in the yard. When escape night comes, he steals the warden's "books", eventually sent to a newspaper for the "expose'". He uses one of the warden's suits, his shoes, and the fictitious identity to claim the approx. 5,000 for himself before his escape is discovered, and heads to Mexico on the Pacific Ocean. A few days later, the warden, about to be arrested, shoots himself dead. "Red" finally gets out on parole, bags groceries for a while, then remembers that Dufresne had told him, "If you ever get out, there's a volcanic rock at the end of a stone fence under a big tree in Buxton and under that rock is something I want you to have." He looks it up and finds a letter and cash buried, obviously hidden for "Red" after Dufresne's escape. With that, "Red" joins him in Mexico and they meet and hug on the beach in the last scene, as Dufresne is working on his boat. I saw this, the second time, on DVD. Picture and sound are first-rate, although there aren't any real extras. The French dubbing is done very well.

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