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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

R09/23/1994Drama, Crime2h 22m
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Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Tim Robbins

    Andy Dufresne

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    Morgan Freeman

    Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

  3. Cast 1

    Bob Gunton

    Warden Norton

  4. Cast 1

    William Sadler

    Heywood

  5. Cast 1

    Clancy Brown

    Captain Byron T. Hadley

  6. Cast 1

    Gil Bellows

    Tommy

  7. Cast 1

    James Whitmore

    Brooks Hatlen

  8. Cast 1

    Mark Rolston

    Bogs Diamond

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    Jeffrey DeMunn

    1946 D.A.

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