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A Maine banker convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover in 1947 gradually forms a friendship over a quarter century with a hardened convict, while maintaining his innocence and trying to remain hopeful through simple compassion. (R, 142 min.)
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Internationally acclaimed actors Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman star in a compelling drama of hope, friendship and atonement behind the walls of a maximum-security prison in The Shawshank Redemption. From a novella by best-selling author Stephen King comes a poignant tale of the human spirit. Red (Freeman), serving a life sentence, and Andy Dufresne (Robbins), a mild-mannered banker wrongly convicted of murder, forge an unlikely bond that will span more than twenty years. Together they discover hope as the ultimate means of survival. Under horrifying conditions and the ever-present threat of violence, two lifers reclaim their souls and find freedom within their hearts in The Shawshank Redemption. [Warner Brothers]
Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
Director: Frank Darabont
Genre: Drama
"It's a simple story elegantly, cleverly told, not to mention expertly acted."
— Tom Russo, Boston Globe
"A throwback to the kind of serious, literate drama Hollywood used to make."
— Derek Adams, Time Out
"Thanks to fine performances and beautiful photography, you get that inspirational jump-start frame after frame."
— Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle
"Freeman, in particular, is exceptional. His performance is so unshowy it can easily go unnoticed, but it's the soul of Shawshank."
— Nev Pierce, BBC.com
"At times poignant, joyful, and terrifying, Shawshank Redemption is an altogether brilliant movie and the debut of an equally brilliant director."
— Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle
"With his gift for rapt pauses, for caressing just the right syllable, Freeman can make a speech like that sound like one of the philosophical nuggets of the ages."
— Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"It's a devoutly old-fashioned, spiritually uplifting prison drama about two lifers who must break their emotional shackles before they can finally become free men."
— Rita Kempley, Washington Post
"You've never seen a prison movie quite like it, and I found its eccentric rhythms and the performances of co-stars Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman nearly irresistible."
— Jack Mathews, Newsday
"Without a single riot scene or horrific effect, it tells a slow, gentle story of camaraderie and growth, with an ending that abruptly finds poetic justice in what has come before."
— Janet Maslin, New York Times
"The Shawshank Redemption is both resigned and inspirational, grittily realistic and vaguely surreal, matter-of-fact and operatic. Somehow, these opposites are combined into a remarkably smooth and lyrical composition."
— Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
"The towering Tim Robbins has a solidity and gentle interiority that occasionally reminds one here of Burt Lancaster. Of equal excellence is Morgan Freeman as Red, who holds the film together with his poetic, often quipping narration."
— Lizzie Francke, Sight & Sound
