The Shawshank Redemption poster
Screenplay Frank Darabont
Director Frank Darabont

The Shawshank Redemption

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

Release Date: 1994-09-23

Duration: 142 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Morgan Freeman
    Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
  • Clancy Brown
    Captain Byron T. Hadley
  • Bob Gunton
    Warden Norton
  • William Sadler
    Heywood
  • David Proval
    Snooze
  • Paul McCrane
    Guard Trout
  • Brian Libby
    Floyd
  • Tim Robbins
    Andy Dufresne
  • Gil Bellows
    Tommy
  • Jeffrey DeMunn
    1946 D.A.