The Shawshank Redemption
Directed by Frank Darabont
Imprisoned 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. From TMDB
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Viewers praise the film's powerful storytelling and emotional depth. [1][2][3] The performances of Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman are widely acclaimed. [2][4][5] Some find the film predictable or overrated. [6][7]
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This is much more predictable and Hollywood than a King novel. This story of another man wrongfully in prison for murder joins the list of about every other movie about a man sent to prison for murdering his wife. And therein lies the problem. Most of the time, the killer is the husband, and most of the time the right man is in prison. Juries are now doomed to consist of several people who are brainwashed by this …
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Some birds aren't meant to be caged. The Shawshank Redemption is written and directed by Frank Darabont. It is an adaptation of the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. Starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, the film portrays the story of Andy Dufresne (Robbins), a banker who is sentenced to two life sentences at Shawshank State Prison for apparently murdering his wife and her lover. Andy …
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The Shawshank Redemption is one of those timeless classics that pulls you in with its heartfelt storytelling and remarkable performances. At its core, it’s a story about hope, friendship, and the resilience of the human spirit, set against the bleak backdrop of Shawshank prison. Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne and Morgan Freeman as Red deliver deeply moving performances, capturing the bond that grows between two men …
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First time seeing this in probably close to 20 years, maybe longer. Forgot how excellent of a movie this was, amazing all around from the performances, Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins especially, with a roller coaster of emotions. The writing (from Stephen King's novel) direction from Frank Darabont was precise and just all around fantastic. This is the very rare 5 star movies I've given but it is easily one of the …
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The Shawshank Redemption may seem like a familiar story today because many movies released afterward have explored similar themes. However, watching it now still felt like a completely new experience to me. The plot itself is simple, but what makes this movie extraordinary is the director's storytelling and execution. Every scene is presented with purpose, and the emotional journey keeps the audience engaged from …
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Critics, per Wikipedia
The Shawshank Redemption opened to generally positive reviews. Some reviewers compared the film to other well-received prison dramas, including Birdman of Alcatraz, Cool Hand Luke, and Riot in Cell Block 11. Gene Siskel said that, like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shawshank Redemption is an inspirational drama about overcoming overbearing authority. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale. Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman said that Freeman makes the Red character feel genuine and "lived-in". Janet Maslin of The New York Times said that Freeman was quietly impressive, but lamented that Red's role in the film had limited range,…
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60 of 294 · most liked firstRob Reiner directed some of the most beloved movies of all time, including Stand By Me, This is Spinal Tap, and The Princess Bride. His production company also made movies like The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise and Michael Clayton. The film industry has lost one of its titans.
neutral · AI labelView post →Reiner thought about and in the end said, "We have to make this film." They agreed to let the writer direct the film and Rob would just be a producer on it. Which is how Frank Darabont ended up directing THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 🎬🖤 Directed by Frank Darabont
neutral · AI labelView post →#books #booksky My introduction to Stephen King came after watching The Shawshank Redemption. I learned that the movie was based on SK’s novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, published in 1982 as part of a collection of four novellas titled Different Seasons. Two of the four novellas …
neutral · AI labelView post →Chris Stuckmann’s horror movie ‘SHELBY OAKS’ will release on October 3 in theaters. NEON has doubled the film’s budget to add more gore & violence as well as film some reshoots inside the real prison/museum from ‘THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION’ (Source: www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching The Shawshank Redemption for the first time in probably 30 years, and you know what? This is a good movie.
positive · AI labelView post →I think the thing that pisses me off the most about our current round of human implosion is that the fascists are consistent as always, in that they think THIS time everyone else will finally submit, and then you ask them their favorite movie and they say “The Shawshank Redemption”
negative · AI labelView post →So, no one was up to it, and thus I didn't see THE THING or re-watch THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. But Ann and I did see a movie tonight we missed the first time around. And it was terrific.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you measure a film’s “success” by its box office, and not how it made you think and feel while watching it, then you aren’t a movie fan. The Shawshank Redemption didn’t do well when it was released, and is considered one of the best films of all time. Did you enjoy the film? It’s a success.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ultimately, the Shawshank Redemption is a movie about hope. You hope that the warden crushes the spirit of Andy Dufresne
neutral · AI labelView post →Der Vergleich passt in Bezug auf Preise, weil alle rumheulen, dass 1994 nicht das "Meisterwerk" des Macker-Genies gewann, aber dabei völlig vergessen, dass der eigentlich unfair übersehene Film 1994 weder "Pulp Fiction" noch "The Shawshank Redemption" war, sondern "Four Weddings and a Funeral."
neutral · AI labelView post →Andrew Tate wrote a letter from prison that is mostly a high school level analysis of the movie The Shawshank Redemption. it is really funny
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s movie: The Shawshank Redemption
neutral · AI labelView post →What game, book, TV show, and/or movie do you wish you could experience for the first time again?. This thread has convinced me to play Outer Wilds. My picks are: - Game: Portal 2. - Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. - TV show: Bojack Horseman. - Movie: The Shawshank Redemption.
neutral · AI labelView post →#FebruaryMovieChallenge #FilmSky #Moviesky 25 : someone wrongfully accused in a movie The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
neutral · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) By John Hanley
neutral · AI labelView post →The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Directed by Frank Darabont
neutral · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) By John Hanley
neutral · AI labelView post →A new JUST KING THINGS bonus ep, available to all our Patreon supporters: we tackle 1994's THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, the best movie of all time according to IMDb, perhaps because of how immaculately it's made and how confusing its message actually is. www.patreon.com/posts/141116...
neutral · AI labelView post →What movies did people look up to during the 80s/90s?. You know how, today, we take inspiration or look up to “classic” films like The Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption? Well, what did people in the 80s/90s look up to? 70s movies? Black and white movies? What were seen as classics back then?
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie you’ve never gotten round to watching even though everyone else in the world seems to love it and now you wonder if you’ll ever bother cos you’ve absorbed so much about it from popular culture references that watching it almost seems redundant? Mine is The Shawshank Redemption
neutral · AI labelView post →Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption and Jurassic Park were all shown at movie theaters in October, 1994.
neutral · AI labelView post →Teenage son wanted curry and movie night. Took advice and tried him on The Shawshank Redemption. “I think that’s the best movie I’ve ever seen.”
positive · AI labelView post →...Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies... Movie 🎥: The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Written & Directed: Franke Darabont .. 🌑 🖤 ☁️ 💙 .. beautiful sky ...to me its like a river in the sky ... (Photo by Kirpal)
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched The Shawshank Redemption for at least the 10th time! My favorite movie of all time!
positive · AI labelView post →SPICY HOT TAKE: THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION is a damn fine film.
positive · AI labelView post →Any fans of the 1994 movie The Shawshank Redemption?
neutral · AI labelView post →I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying. OTD 9/23/94: Frank Darabont's stellar adaptation of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION opened. Despite critical acclaim & 7 Oscar nods, box office disappointment. Home release catapulted to #1 on IMDB Top 250. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →‘It’s the damnedest thing I’ve ever seen’: 10 film flops that became classics – ranked!. TLDR 10 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) **Budget:** **£19.3m.** **Worldwide** **gross:** **£22m** 9 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) **Budget: £2.3m****. Worldwide gross:** **£3.2m** 8 Strange Days (1995) **Budget: £32.3****m****.** **Worldwide gross: £13.1m** 7\. The Thing (1982) **Budget: £12m****. Worldwide gross: £15.9m** 6\. Donnie Darko (2001) **Budget: £3.5m****. Initial…
neutral · AI labelView post →#Gif&Records #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 16: “The Shawshank Redemption” This is 1 of my favorite movies! In the film, Andy slowly chips away at his prison cell wall until the hole, hidden by a poster, is big enough to allow him to escape. “I'm Free” · The Who m.youtube.com/watchv=v4L8L...
neutral · AI labelView post →Name a movie that flopped at the box office but is actually great. #FilmSky I'll name four: The Thing, The Rocketeer, The Shawshank Redemption and Iron Giant. The Thing got a sequel published by @darkhorse.com and The Rocketeer got a movie adaptation from Disney.
positive · AI labelView post →I'm beginning to think the biggest prank people my age perpetrated on younger people is convincing them the Shawshank Redemption was a good movie. I've heard multiple people say it's their favorite movie. I don't argue but I assume they've only seen four movies.
negative · AI labelView post →"The Shawshank Redemption" - As far as I'm concerned; still the greatest movie of all time.
positive · AI labelView post →At what point does "the book was better" simply reveal that you prefer books?. I'm a reader. I completely understand how "the book" provides more nearly a singular vision and has room to explore characters and their interior lives pretty extensively and explicitly, and the lower cost means you can target niche audiences. I often find I like the book (LOTR, Dune, any Twain adaptation ever) better than the movie or show, but not always. At some point aren't you just saying that the things…
neutral · AI labelView post →#MovieMadness Day 16 My favorite shot from a movie Gotta be this one from The Shawshank Redemption. Thought I'd also mention this little known, but good and visually stunning movie, The Fall youtu.be/OTn5XUFP_iA?...
positive · AI labelView post →Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption may be the best story Stephen King wrote. It holds up every time I encounter it, on paper or as a movie. I cry every time. And I KNOW how it ends.
positive · AI labelView post →“Drink up while it’s cold Ladies.” THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994) What a Film. #TimRobbins #ClancyBrown #MorganFreeman
positive · AI labelView post →Movie: The Shawshank Redemption Language: French Country: France Rest in peace Benoît Allemane (1942 - 2025) 🕯
neutral · AI labelView post →Whatever movie they played on TBS the most between the years 1995 and 2010. So... THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION.
neutral · AI labelView post →Every year, gonna ask my boys their favorite new movie and favorite first-time. For 2025: Lucas: The Long Walk, Get Out Miles: Sinners, Whiplash Noah: Fantastic Four, The Shawshank Redemption
neutral · AI labelView post →#MovieMadness Day 5 - Movie you wish you'd seen on opening night The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont) I've seen it an innumerate time since, and would love to have seen it on Day 1.
positive · AI labelView post →#JuneMovieChallenge 13/6. Movie where someone is arrested. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
neutral · AI labelView post →@omacolt.bsky.social #SeptemberMovieChallenge Sept 1 Laboring in a movie The Shawshank Redemption 1994
neutral · AI labelView post →Every streaming and DVD copy of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION should start like 45 minutes into the movie, like you just came across it on cable
positive · AI labelView post →🕰️Daily Conundrum 48🕰️ Clue: 100 quid and 3 points! (5,7) Weds answer(47) Deborah Meaden Fact: Deborah’s favourite film is The Shawshank Redemption. 🎥 🚫Hints/spoilers in replies=block 🚨 Please share if you play along 👍 📺 Countdown 🕰️ 2.10pm ❓ Channel 4!
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching zoomers react to THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION and I have to remember they are Young and therefore don't automatically know every single beat of this movie like clockwork
neutral · AI labelView post →#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky Day 17. Someone sentenced to prison in a movie. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
neutral · AI labelView post →#AugustMovieChallenge Day 11. Prison in a movie. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) youtu.be/dpjB6b9OZYI
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve just finished watching The Shawshank Redemption (1994) for the first time ever I’ve avoided it because so many straight men say it’s their favourite movie It was good
neutral · AI labelView post →With all of the movie memories discussed in the last couple of days, it is a reminder that the best Stephen King film adaptations of all time are Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.
positive · AI labelView post →Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. .. Movie 🎥: The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Director: Frank Darabont Story by: Stephen King ☁️ (Photo by Kirpal)
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm an Austin Film Festival 2nd Rounder with my Drama Feature 'Chow' which is like if 'The Bear' and 'The Shawshank Redemption' had a baby. I'm so excited to have a script be in the Top 20% of all scripts submitted and congratulations to all the other 2nd rounders!! #filmsky #scriptsky
neutral · AI labelView post →"The Shawshank Redemption". I *want* to say "Mad Max: Fury Road" or "Brick", as I prefer both those movies, but the Shawshank Redemption has not a single wasted moment, nor a single extraneous scene. There is nothing to add or remove from the film. There is no sub-par performance.
positive · AI labelView post →#MayMovieChallenge #Moviesky Day 5. Rainy day in a movie. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
neutral · AI labelView post →If The Shawshank Redemption was set in 2026, parts of it would be totally unbelievable. For example, in the film the Warden takes his own life after his years of corruption are uncovered. Today he'd just pay Trump a million dollars for a full pardon.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you've seen movie The Shawshank Redemption, then you know what he did.
neutral · AI labelView post →#MovieChallenge #20films 9/20: The Shawshank Redemption #filmsky 🎬🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →I watch the movie The Shawshank Redemption a lot—- Stephen King based movie that gives me all the feels. Filming was in Ohio at an actual old prison known for rampant mistreatment of prisoners resulting in deaths. Actors claimed it was creepy and scary.
positive · AI labelView post →I agree the marketing for LIFE OF CHUCK hasn't been effective but I also have NO idea how you effectively market this film without ruining the story or making it look too bleak OR too sugary. I do recall that THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION had similar problems though. That film initially TANKED.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's like a John Carney movie if he'd been born in Austin and loved THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION.
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