"Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free."
General Information
Came out in: 1994
Gross Revenue: $28,341,469
Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, James Whitmore
Director: Frank Drabont
Writers: Frank Darabont & Stephen King
Producers: Niki Marvin
Gross Revenue: $28,341,469
Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, James Whitmore
Director: Frank Drabont
Writers: Frank Darabont & Stephen King
Producers: Niki Marvin
Plot
Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is a young and successful banker whose life is completely changed when he is unjustly convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment after the murder of his wife and her lover. Andy spends nearly 20 years in Shawshank State prision in Maine where he befriends Red (Morgan Freeman), an older and well respected inmate who shows him the ropes. Over the years he never loses hope and slowly gains the respect of the other inmates.
Favourite Quotes
Red: You're gonna fit right in. everyone in here is innocent, you know that? Heywood, what you in here for?
Heywood: Didn't do it. Lawer screwed me.
Heywood: Didn't do it. Lawer screwed me.
Andry Dufresne: What about you? What are you in here for?
Red: Murder, same as you.
Andry Dufresne: Innocent?
Red: Only guilty man in Shawshank.
Red: Murder, same as you.
Andry Dufresne: Innocent?
Red: Only guilty man in Shawshank.
Why is the my favourite movie?
The story of Andy Dufresne was so touching and prompts the audience to think about the concept of justice. The movie is also based on the novel "Rita Heyworth and the Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King, one of my favorite authors. I am a huge fan of books that have turned into movies! Although I typically like the book more than the movie (of course the book must be amazing if it was turned into a film!), in the case of Shawshank Redemption, the movie is most definitely better than the novel.
Red and Andy Dufresne.
The book the movie is based on...
