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The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American prison drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. The film tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne ( Tim Robbins ), who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murders of his wife and her lover ...
The film, The Shawshank Redemption, was nominated for seven Academy Awards in 1994, including Best Picture, [1] and has been regarded as one of the best films of all time. The main roles were played by Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. In 2009, the story was adapted for the stage as The Shawshank Redemption. [2]
The plot outlined here is the movie plot. It is obvious when reading the differences between the novella and the movie in the shawshank redemption movie article. Bigbadbyte 05:05, 4 October 2005 (UTC) (2 years later.) But now, clearly, the plot summary is for the novel. Ellsworth 19:50, 19 September 2007 (UTC) (3 years later.)
Thirty years ago, it was a box office flop. Then it became one of the most beloved movies ever made.
FLASHBACKS: The producers wanted Tom Cruise. The creek in its most famous scene was toxic. And barely anyone saw it upon release. So why, Tom Fordy asks, did Frank Darabont’s seemingly doomed ...
Twenty-five years ago, The Shawshank Redemption finished as a first-run failure that seemed sentenced to obscurity. But then Frank Darabont's stirring cellblock epic found an unlikely reprieve and ...
Stephen King's novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption was widely thought to be based on Tolstoy's short story "God Sees The Truth, But Waits", which Stephen King has disavowed. [citation needed] [3] It was adapted into a feature film, The Shawshank Redemption (1994), starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. [4]
Thirty years after The Shawshank Redemption opened in U.S. theaters on Sept. 23, 1994, director Frank Darabont revealed the lengths Tim Robbins went to in portraying the film’s hero.. In a ...