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The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

PG-13 10/14/1994 (US) Crime and Drama and Mystery and Thriller 2h 22m
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The official tagline for the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption is: "Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.".

Overview

Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to a tough prison. However, only Andy knows he didn't commit the crimes. While there, he forms a friendship with Red (Morgan Freeman), experiences brutality of prison life, adapts, helps the warden, etc., all in 19 years.