The Shawshank Redemption

1994•142 min•Dir. Frank Darabont

8.7

DramaCrime

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

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.

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Tim Robbins as Andy DufresneMorgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd 'Red' ReddingBob Gunton as Warden NortonWilliam Sadler as HeywoodClancy Brown as Captain Byron T. HadleyGil Bellows as TommyJames Whitmore as Brooks HatlenMark Rolston as Bogs DiamondJeffrey DeMunn as 1946 D.A.Larry Brandenburg as SkeetNeil Giuntoli as JiggerBrian Libby as FloydDavid Proval as SnoozeJoseph Ragno as ErnieJude Ciccolella as Guard MertPaul McCrane as Guard TroutRenee Blaine as Andy Dufresne's WifeScott Mann as Glenn QuentinJohn Horton as 1946 JudgeGordon Greene as 1947 Parole Hearings ManAlfonso Freeman as Fresh Fish ConVincent Foster as Hungry Fish ConJohn E. Summers as New Fish GuardFrank Medrano as Fat AssMack Miles as TyrellAlan R. Kessler as Laundry BobMorgan Lund as Laundry Truck DriverCornell Wallace as Laundry LeonardGary Lee Davis as RoosterNeil Summers as PeteNed Bellamy as Guard YoungbloodJoe Pecoraro as ProjectionistHarold E. Cope Jr. as Hole GuardBrian Delate as Guard DekinsDon McManus as Guard WileyDonald Zinn as Moresby BatterDorothy Silver as 1954 LandladyRobert Haley as 1954 Food-Way ManagerDana Snyder as 1954 Food-Way WomanJohn D. Craig as 1957 Parole Hearings ManKen Magee as Ned GrimesEugene C. DePasquale as Mail CallerBill Bolender as Elmo BlatchRon Newell as Elderly Hole GuardJohn R. Woodward as Bullhorn Tower GuardChuck Brauchler as Man Missing GuardDion Anderson as Head Bull HaigClaire Slemmer as Bank TellerJames Kisicki as Bank ManagerRohn Thomas as Bugle EditorCharlie Kearns as 1966 D.A.Rob Reider as Duty GuardBrian Brophy as 1967 Parole Hearings ManPaul Kennedy as 1967 Food-Way ManagerJames Babson as Con (uncredited)Dennis Baker as Old Man on Bus (uncredited)Fred Culbertson as Police Officer (uncredited)Alonzo F. Jones as Inmate (uncredited)Sergio Kato as Inmate II (uncredited)Gary A. Jones as Convict (uncredited)