The Shawshank Redemption
1994 | Drama | USA | Directed by Frank Darabont
Overview
Andy Dufresne, innocent in Shawshank, keeps hope in a rock hammer and a poster. From a Stephen King novella, with Morgan Freeman voice as a warm blanket. Seven Oscar nominations, zero wins, then video and cable made it a perennial at the top of every audience poll. The tunnel reveal is structure paying off in a single shot. Get busy living or get busy dying. Redemption as engineering.
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