The Shawshank Redemption

IMDb link: 0111161
IMDb rating: 9.3 (3,181,527 votes)
Genres: Drama
Director: Morgan Freeman, Frank Darabont, Tim Robbins
Cast: Bob Gunton, William Sadler and others

Release date: 14 Oct 1994
Release year: 1994
Runtime: 142 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: prison, based on the works of stephen king, escape from prison, friendship between men, wrongful conviction, 1940s, voice over narration, suicide by hanging, police brutality, suicide

Plot:

Bank Merchant Andy Dufresne is convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover, and sentenced to life imprisonment at Shawshank prison. Life seems to have taken a turn for the worse, but fortunately Andy befriends some of the other inmates, in particular a character known only as Red. Over time Andy finds ways to live out life with relative ease as one can in a prison, leaving a message for all that while the body may be locked away in a cell, the spirit can never be truly imprisoned.

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