The Shawshank Redemption

Frank Darabont · 1994 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

Convicted in 1947 of shooting his wife and her lover on evidence he denies, a reserved New England banker enters a Maine penitentiary and makes himself useful to the warden's accounts. A lifer who can obtain contraband narrates two decades of routine, assault and small privileges won inside the walls. A modest earner on release that television repeats turned into an enduring popular favourite.

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