The Shawshank Redemption

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

Plot Summary

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.

8.7 /10

1994

US

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prison

friendship

police brutality

corruption

based on novel or book

hope

prison cell

delinquent

redemption

parole board

prison escape

wrongful imprisonment

interracial friendship

framed for murder

1940s

voiceover

ambiguous