The Shawshank Redemption

1994 • Movie • 4 ratings

Drama

Overview

Hope is a dangerous thing inside a prison, and Andy Dufresne refuses to let it go. A banker wrongly convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, Andy arrives at Shawshank in 1947 with two life sentences and a quiet, unbreakable determination. Tim Robbins plays him with stillness and steel, while Morgan Freeman narrates as Red, the longtime inmate who becomes his closest friend. Over two decades Andy transforms the prison from within, building a library, teaching fellow inmates to read, and playing Mozart over the loudspeakers in one of cinema's great moments of defiance. What follows is about friendship, patience, and the long road to freedom, building to an ending that earns every tear. If you haven't seen it yet, fix that. Soon.