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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 second episode of the seventh season of the 2016 American television series Billions featured a copy of the book in the possession of a prisoner character played by Clancy Brown. Brown played a sadistic prison guard in the 1994 movie adaptation of Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. [4]
The Shawshank Redemption opened on 23 September 1994. Test screening reactions and reviews were strong but – from a budget of $25m – made a measly $18m in its first run. ... The film’s title
Thirty years ago, it was a box office flop. Then it became one of the most beloved movies ever made.
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 ...
Publication year Title Notes 1982 Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: Narrator Red recounts Castle Rock as the town he lived in before his incarceration at Shawshank. The novella was originally published in the collection Different Seasons. 1983 Pet Sematary: Refers to the events of Cujo which take place in Castle Rock. 1986 It
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 ...