Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama
Release Year: 1994
Country: USA
Runtime: 142
Rating: 6.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Frank Darabont
Sound: Dolby Digital
Taglines:

  • Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.


    • Writing by: Stephen King – (short story "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption")
    Frank Darabont – (screenplay)

    Produced by: Liz Glotzer – executive producer
    David V. Lester – executive producer (as David Lester)
    Niki Marvin – producer

    Cast: Tim Robbins – Andy Dufresne
    Morgan Freeman – Ellis Boyd Red Redding
    Bob Gunton – Warden Norton
    William Sadler – Heywood
    Clancy Brown – Captain Hadley
    Gil Bellows – Tommy
    Mark Rolston – Bogs Diamond
    James Whitmore – Brooks Hatlen
    Jeffrey DeMunn – 1946 D.A.
    Larry Brandenburg – Skeet
    Neil Giuntoli – Jigger

    Music: Thomas Newman
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    Plot Outline: Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
    Plot: Andy Dufresne is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Set in the 1940s, the film shows how Andy, with the help of his friend Red, the prison entrepreneur, turns out to be a most unconventional prisoner.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    The man who cried and was beaten when Andy first arrived is listed and credited as “Fat Ass” — the other inmates nickname for him.

    Goofs: We know about 25 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Anachronisms: Federal income taxes were due on March 15th, not April 15th as they are today.

    Trivia: There are 46 entries in the trivia list – like these:

    • The role of Tommy Williams was intended for Brad Pitt.
    • The exteriors were filmed at the defunct Mansfield State Reformatory in Ohio. The prison was in such poor condition that renovations had to be made prior to filming. However, most the interiors were shot on a sound stage, because they determined it would be cheaper to build duplicates of the interiors rather than renovating the interiors of Mansfield.
    • The American Humane Association monitored the filming of scenes involving Brooks crow. During the scene where he fed it a maggot, the AHA objected on the grounds that it was cruel to the maggot, and required that they use a maggot that had died from natural causes. One was found, and the scene was filmed.