Title: The Shawshank Redemption
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Languages: English
Genres: Drama, Crime,
Runtime: 2:22:00 Hour
Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
Directors: Frank Darabont
MPA Rating: R
Rating: 8.7 (31597 Votes)
TomatoMeter: 91 %
Audiance Score: 98 %
Critics Consensus: The Shawshank Redemption is an uplifting, deeply satisfying prison drama with sensitive direction and fine performances.
Year: 1994
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.