Title: The Shawshank Redemption
Original Title: The Shawshank Redemption
Year: 1994
Info
- Country: USA
- Length: 142 Minutes (2 hours 22 min)
- Budget: $25,000,000
- Genre: Crime Drama
- Studios: Castle Rock Entertainment Filmayer
- Distributor: Filmayer
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: February 17 1995
- United States: October 14 1994
Plot
Andy Dufresne is a banker sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Gradually Andy gets the respect of other prisoners and friendship of Red, who runs the black market in prison. Andy acquires certain privileges because resolves fiscal problems to the guards and the warden, for whom organized an extensive network of taints políticas. Andy discovers that the true murderer of his wife is locked in another prison, and therefore calls his case reopened. Then the governor ordered to kill this new inmate to prevent the departure of Andy and come to light their dirty business. From that moment Andy loses all its privileges, so he decides to take advantage of all the services the warden still requires him for regain his honor and freedom.
Awards
- 1995 Academy Awards (Oscars): 7 0
Cast
Director:
Escolta Wiley
Andy Dufresne
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding
Warden Norton
Heywood
Cap. Hadley
Tommy
Photos
Trivia
This movie was released in Taiwan as "1995: Fantastic" (it was released in Taiwan in 1995). Many viewers thought it would be an action movie.
Although a very modest hit in theaters, it became one of the highest-grossing video rentals of all time.
Morgan Freeman's favorite film of his own.
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