Framed 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.
Genre: Drama, Crime
Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, Clancy Brown, Mark Rolston
Producer: Thomas Newman, Thomas Newman, Roger Deakins, Peter Landsdown Smith, Stephen King
IMDb Score: 8.7/10 by 15686 users
Runtime: 142 minutes
Released: 9/23/1994