The Shawshank Redemption (MetaScore 81) is an American film drama created in 1994 and adapted from the Stephen King novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption". It tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murders of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence. Over the following two decades, he befriends a fellow prisoner, contraband smuggler Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), and becomes instrumental in a money-laundering operation led by the prison warden.
Cast & Crew
- Director: Frank Darabont
- Writers: Stephen King and Frank Darabont
- Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne - A banker sentenced to life in prison in 1947 for the murder of his wife and her lover
- Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding - A prison contraband smuggler who befriends Andy
- Bob Gunton as Samuel Norton - The pious and cruel warden of Shawshank penitentiary
- William Sadler as Heywood - A member of Red's gang of long-serving convicts
- Clancy Brown as Byron Hadley - The brutal captain of the prison guards
- James Whitmore as Brooks Hatlen - The elderly prison librarian, imprisoned since the early 1900s
