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Director: Frank Darabont
Initial Release: September 10, 1994
Running Time: 142 minutes.
Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
The Film Guide | Movie Review English
Written by: Celina Saqib
A powerful on screen drama that
reminds us, many times in our life things go out of hand and beyond our control
but hope is the essence of life that gives our life true meaning and spirit.
The film portrays the story of
two imprisoned men (Robbins as Andy Dufresne & Freeman as Ellis ``Red``
Redding) bond over a number of years, finding comfort and eventual repossession
through acts of common decency. Andy Dufresne a banker by profession is
wrongfully sentenced to severe two lifelong incarcerations for killing his wife
and her lover. While trying to establish his place in the jail Andy finds
solace in the friendship he forms with fellow inmate, Ellis ``Red`` and gets a
prison job complimenting his talent as a banker. Red goes through three appeals
and in the third appeal he gets a release. Overtime Andy finds ways to live out
life with relative ease as one can in a prison, leaving a message for all of us
that while the body may be locked away in a cell, the spirit can never be truly
imprisoned. The movie writer very smartly shows the several aspects of life in
a prison.
It’s truly a motivational story as it never
fails to make you feel better in darkest moments of life and The Shawshank
Redemption uplifts you in ways that you can’t find in movies today.
