City Banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is in Shawshank State Prison after receiving a double life sentence for murder. There he meets Red (Morgan Freeman) and also forms friendships with the warden and prison guards. Andy soon finds that you either get on with living or you get on with dying.
Product Identifiers
Producer
Niki Marvin
EAN
5037115202833
eBay Product ID (ePID)
61611799
Product Key Features
Actor
James Whitmore, Morgan Freeman, William Sadler, Tim Robbins, Mark Rolston, Gil Bellows, Robert Gunton
Director
Frank Darabont
Release Year
2005
Genre
Drama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs
1
Format
UMD
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States of America
Director of Photography
Roger Deakins
Art Director
Peter Lansdown Smith
Costume Designer
Elizabeth McBride
Production Designer
Terence Marsh
Reviews
Rolling Stone - ...Undeniably powerful and moving..., New York Times - ...A slow, gentle story of camaraderie....THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION has its own brand of iconoclasm..., Premiere - ...[The pairing of Freeman and Robbins] sparks moments of true grace and emotion..., Empire - Fully deserves its modern classic status ... leaves you with a warm glow and a grin no 30-year stretch could remove., Entertainment Weekly - "...Extremely satisfying entertainment....[A] provisional masterpiece..." -- Rating: A-
Author
Stephen King
Certificate
15
Additional Information
City Banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is in Shawshank State Prison after receiving a double life sentence for murder. There he meets Red (Morgan Freeman) and also forms friendships with the warden and prison guards. Andy soon finds that you either get on with living or you get on with dying.
Adapted from a novella taken from Stephen King's 'Different Seasons' (a collection of stories that would also spawn STAND BY ME and APT PUPIL), THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION marked the first foray into the realms of the writer for director Frank Darabont. In the years since the release of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, Darabont has directed two other King Adaptations, THE GREEN MILE and THE MIST. Considered to be a financial failure upon its release, and overshadowed by PULP FICTION and FORREST GUMP at the Oscars, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION has since been re-evaluated as something of a modern classic.