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The Shawshank Redemption

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

  • Genres: Drama, Crime
  • Vote average: 8.704
  • Vote count: 26099
  • Runtime: 142 Minutes
  • Release date: 1994-09-23
  • Budget: 25m USD
  • Revenue: 28m USD

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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.

Production: Castle Rock Entertainment

Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, James Whitmore, Mark Rolston

Crew: Niki Marvin (Producer), Roger Deakins (Director of Photography), Richard Francis-Bruce (Editor), Julie Lichter (Casting), Deborah Aquila (Casting), Liz Glotzer (Executive Producer)

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