The Shawshank Redemption

Plot Summary

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.

Cast

• Tim Robbins

  as Andy Dufresne

• Morgan Freeman

  as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

• Bob Gunton

  as Warden Norton

• William Sadler

  as Heywood

• Clancy Brown

  as Captain Byron T. Hadley