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The Shawshank Redemption

Where:

🇲🇽 Mexico Maine

When:

The 1950s The 1960s The 1940s

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. — Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

Released in 1994 — 142 minutes

Genres:

Drama Crime

Language:

English