The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
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- Synopsis
- A banker is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to life in a Maine prison, where he learns to cope with the realities of prison life while using his intelligence to prevail against the odds....
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- Starring
- Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, Bill Sadler, Clancy Brown
- Director(s)
- Frank Darabont
- Distributor(s)
- Warner Bros.
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 142 min.
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Washington Post | Rita KempleyAdd Critic to Favorites
Remarkable.Read the full review
Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites
It's the no-bull performances that hold back the flood of banalities. Robbins and Freeman connect with the bruised souls of Andy and Red to create something undeniably powerful and moving.Read the full review
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
If the film is perhaps a little slow in its middle passages, maybe that is part of the idea, too, to give us a sense of the leaden passage of time, before the glory of the final redemption.Read the full review
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