The Shawshank Redemption
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Frank Darabont
Produced by	Niki Marvin
Written by	Novella: Stephen King Screenplay: Frank Darabont
Narrated by	Morgan Freeman
Starring	Tim Robbins Morgan Freeman Bob Gunton William Sadler Clancy Brown Gil Bellows
Music by	Thomas Newman
Cinematography	Roger Deakins
Editing by	Richard Francis-Bruce
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures (1994-1999) Warner Bros. (1999-present)
Release date(s)	September 23, 1994
Running time	142 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$25 million
Gross revenue	$28,341,469
Allmovie profile
IMDb profile

The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film, written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the Stephen King novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. The film stars Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne and Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982) is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in Different Seasons. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 414 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (522 × 755 pixel, file size: 87 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Film poster for the 1994 American film, The Shawshank Redemption. ... Frank Darabont (born January 28, 1959) is a three-time Academy Award nominated[1]American film director, screenwriter and producer. ... This article may not be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... For other persons named Stephen King, see Stephen King (disambiguation). ... Frank Darabont (born January 28, 1959) is a three-time Academy Award nominated[1]American film director, screenwriter and producer. ... For the Dawsons Creek director, see Morgan J. Freeman. ... Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist, and musician. ... For the Dawsons Creek director, see Morgan J. Freeman. ... Bob Gunton (born November 15, 1945 in Santa Monica, California) is an American actor who is known for his role as the evil Warden Norton in the 1994 movie The Shawshank Redemption. ... William Sadler as Luther Sloan on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine William Sadler (born April 13, 1950 in Buffalo, New York) is an American actor. ... Clarence J. Brown III (born January 5, 1959) is an American actor. ... Gil Bellows (born June 28, 1967 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian film and television actor. ... Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film score composer. ... Roger Deakins (born May 24, 1949 in Torquay, Devon, England) has established himself as a successful cinematographer in America and Britain. ... Richard Francis-Bruce (born 10 Dec. ... The Columbia Pictures logo from 1993 to the present Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. ... “WB” redirects here. ... is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The year 1994 in film involved some significant events. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The year 1994 in film involved some significant events. ... A drama film is a film that depends mostly on in-depth character development, interaction, and highly emotional themes. ... Frank Darabont (born January 28, 1959) is a three-time Academy Award nominated[1]American film director, screenwriter and producer. ... For other persons named Stephen King, see Stephen King (disambiguation). ... A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction somewhat longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. ... Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982) is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in Different Seasons. ... Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist, and musician. ... For the Dawsons Creek director, see Morgan J. Freeman. ...

The film portrays Andy spending nearly two decades in the cruelty of Shawshank State Prison, a fictional penitentiary in Maine, and his friendship with Red, a fellow inmate. This movie exemplifies the gap between box office success and popularity. Despite receiving lukewarm box office reception, The Shawshank Redemption received favorable reviews from critics and has enjoyed a remarkable life on cable television, home video, and DVD, and continues to be noticed by popular culture fourteen years after its initial release. It is frequently ranked amongst the greatest films of all time. Cruel And Unusual redirects here. ... This article is about the institution. ... Official language(s) None (English and French de facto) Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Area  Ranked 39th  - Total 33,414 sq mi (86,542 km²)  - Width 210 miles (338 km)  - Length 320 miles (515 km)  - % water 13. ... Cable TV redirects here. ... The home video business rents and sells videocassettes and DVDs to the public. ... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc - see Etymology) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ... While it is impossible to objectively determine the greatest film of all time, it is possible to discuss the films that have been regarded as the greatest ever. ...

Plot

In 1947, a young banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover based on strong circumstantial evidence, and is sentenced to two consecutive life sentences (one for each victim) at the notorious Shawshank Prison in Maine. Days later, prison inmate Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman) appears before the Shawshank Prison Parole Board, which rejects his parole after having spent twenty years of his life sentence. Red emerges into the prison yard in time to witness the arrival of new inmates, including Andy Dufresne. Following an ominous and intimidating introduction by the disciplinarian Warden Samuel Norton and sadistic Chief Prison Guard Captain Byron Hadley, Andy and the other new inmates are deloused and shuffled to their cells. One of the prisoners breaks down in his cell, whereupon Captain Hadley savagely beats him unconscious, inflicting fatal injuries. Circumstantial evidence is lesbian sex with a huge glass dildo unrelated facts that, when considered together, can be used to infer a conclusion about something unknown. ... Official language(s) None (English de facto) Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Area  Ranked 39th  - Total 33,414 sq mi (86,542 km²)  - Width 210 miles (338 km)  - Length 320 miles (515 km)  - % water 13. ... For other uses, see Louse (disambiguation). ...

Andy asks Red for a Rita Hayworth poster as the inmates watch Gilda

Andy gradually becomes acquainted with Red's circle of friends, and specifically Red himself, who is known as a clever supplier of smuggling in contraband to his fellow inmates. After a month of adjusting to his new life, Andy approaches Red and orders from him a rock hammer, so as to pursue his hobby of rock collecting. A friendship soon develops, which Red acknowledges as unlikely as he believed the younger man to be "a really cold fish." Andy initially works in the prison laundry, where he is harassed and sought out to be raped by a group of sadistic inmates known as "The Sisters." He endures the abuse for nearly two years, but he never speaks a word about it. One day, while tarring the roof of Shawshank's license plate factory, Andy overhears Captain Hadley discussing the taxes on an inheritance he is set to receive. Andy's efforts to help him with this problem nearly get him thrown off the roof, but his knowledge of finance enables him to set up a tax shelter for Captain Hadley. The only payment he asks in return is 3 beers a piece for each of his co-workers. Image File history File links Shawshankdvdcap. ... Image File history File links Shawshankdvdcap. ... Rita Hayworth (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), was an American actress who rose to stardom in the 1940s as the eras leading sex symbol. ... Gilda (1946) is a black-and-white film noir directed by Charles Vidor. ... Contraband consists of items of which possession may be illegal, depending on the variety and the country or the age or sex of the possessor. ... A typical geologists hammer - tubular shaft with chisel head A geologists hammer is a hammer used for geological purposes - by geologists to attain a fresh surface of a rock, to determine its composition, nature, minerals present and history, and by fossil hunters to break rocks and hopefully discover... Tax shelters are any method of reducing taxable income resulting in a reduction of the payments to tax collecting entities including state and federal governments. ...

During a film screening, Andy asks Red to get him a poster of Rita Hayworth for his cell. When Andy is once again accosted and severely beaten by The Sisters as he leaves the theater, the prison guards commit vigilante punishment against the Sisters' leader, Boggs. It becomes clear to all prisoners that the guards are now protecting Andy from mistreatment. After spending a week in "the Hole," Boggs is permanently hospitalized and transferred out of Shawshank by a brutal act of retribution by Hadley, and Andy is never again victimized by any of the inmates. When Andy's skills gain the attention of the warden, he is appointed to assist elderly trustee Brooks Hatlen in the prison library, his first instance of preferential treatment, and writes to the Maine Senate for funds to improve the library. Andy sets up a makeshift office to provide tax and financial services to a growing number of guards and his "clientele" grows to include the entire prison staff, guards from other prisons, and even Warden Norton himself. Rita Hayworth (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), was an American actress who rose to stardom in the 1940s as the eras leading sex symbol. ... Solitary confinement, colloquially referred to as the hole (or in British English the block), is a punishment in which a prisoner is denied contact with any other persons, excluding guards, chaplains and doctors. ... The debating chamber of the Maine Senate in the State House in Augusta The Maine Senate is the upper house of the Maine Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maine. ...

After Andy has spent nearly ten years in Shawshank, he and Red find a distraught and hostile Brooks holding a knife to Heywood's throat. Brooks' parole has finally been granted and he, in prison since 1905, is so accustomed to life inside that he fears the real world. Outside the prison walls, Brooks encounters nothing but loneliness, isolation, and a dead-end job of bagging groceries. While he was a respected man within prison, he is merely (according to Red) "a used-up old con with arthritis in both hands" in the outside world. In addition, he is given no sympathy by society and is harassed by his supervisor. He writes a final letter to his friends back at Shawshank before hanging himself in his room at a halfway house. A halfway house is a term for a drug rehabilitation center or sex offender center where drug users or sex offenders respectively are allowed to move more freely than in a correctional center but are still monitored by staff and/or law enforcement. ...

Warden Samuel Norton capitalizes on Andy's skills and devises a program to put prison inmates to work for local construction projects. His real motive is to embezzle funds in order to profit from corruption within the system. Andy then hides the embezzled funds for Norton by creating a fraudulent identity. Not coincidentally, the Warden expands the prison library, and Andy is given the opportunity to help inmates obtain their high school diplomas.

In 1965, a young prisoner named Tommy Williams enters Shawshank on a "B&E" charge. Andy takes a liking to him, and soon Tommy is being educated to take his GED. After attempting to complete the exam (which he later passes), he learns of Andy's supposed crime from Red, but he has a shocking story to tell: one of his old roommates had gleefully described murdering two people who fit the description of Andy's wife and her lover. Andy hopes that he will be able to get a new trial with Tommy's help. Instead of contacting a lawyer to reopen his case, he goes to the warden with the story, which Norton tries to dissuade as Tommy having made up out of pity. Fearing exposure if Andy is set free, Norton sends Andy to solitary confinement and orders Hadley to kill Tommy. Norton makes it very clear that Andy will continue to receive protection from the guards only if he continues to help Norton embezzle funds. Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Burglars attempted to break into an apartment by pulling away the lock. ... The GED, General Educational Development, or General Equivalence Degree Test, is a test that certifies the taker has attained American or Canadian high school-level academic skills. ...

Two months later, Andy is released from solitary confinement and returns to the main prison population a seemingly broken man. Out in the yard, he gives ominous instructions to Red, telling him that if he is ever released, he is to go to a specific spot in a certain hayfield to find something that has been buried there. Andy's friends are concerned that he may commit suicide like Brooks. The following morning, however, Andy is missing from his cell, in which only a poster of Raquel Welch, who has replaced Rita, stares at the Warden. In a fury over Andy's vanishing into thin air, the Warden punctures a hole in the poster, and discovers to his shock that the poster conceals the mouth of a long escape tunnel through the concrete wall. Warden Norton loses his composure and commits all of his resources to tracking the escapee down, but Andy is never found. Jo Raquel Tejada (born September 5, 1940), best known by her stage name Raquel Welch, is an American actress who reached fame during the 1960s. ...

In a flashback sequence, it is revealed that Andy escaped the prison by tunneling through the walls with his rock hammer for nearly 19 years, slowly chipping away at the cement wall and using various pin-up posters to cover up his work. He completed his escape by crawling 500 yards through a sewage tunnel. After his escape, Andy assumes the fake identity he created earlier for the purpose of concealing the warden's embezzlements. Wearing Norton's clean suit and shoes, Andy withdraws the funds that he had deposited over the years for Norton. He also sends evidence of the scams to a local newspaper, exposing the crimes of the warden and the head guard. Hadley is arrested, reportedly "sobbing like a little girl" as he is taken away, and Norton commits suicide in his office. In literature, film, television and other media, a flashback (also called analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. ...

Soon after, Red is finally released on parole. After trying to cope with life outside prison (and being given the same job and apartment Brooks had had years earlier), he recalls his promise to Andy shortly before Andy's escape. Red finds money and instructions hidden in the field, and eventually reunites with Andy in Zihuatanejo on the coast of Mexico. It has been suggested that Medical parole be merged into this article or section. ... Ixtapa Beach Resort Ixtapa Playa Linda. ...

Cast

• Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne
• Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding
• Bob Gunton as Warden Samuel Norton
• William Sadler as Heywood
• Clancy Brown as Capt. Byron Hadley
• Gil Bellows as Tommy Williams
• Mark Rolston as Bogs Diamond
• James Whitmore as Brooks Hatlen
• Jeffrey DeMunn as 1946 DA
• David Proval as Snooze
• Jude Ciccolella as Guard Mert
• Paul McCrane as Guard Trout
• Scott Mann as Glenn Quentin

Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist, and musician. ... For the Dawsons Creek director, see Morgan J. Freeman. ... Bob Gunton (born November 15, 1945 in Santa Monica, California) is an American actor who is known for his role as the evil Warden Norton in the 1994 movie The Shawshank Redemption. ... William Sadler as Luther Sloan on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine William Sadler (born April 13, 1950 in Buffalo, New York) is an American actor. ... Clarence J. Brown III (born January 5, 1959) is an American actor. ... Gil Bellows (born June 28, 1967 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian film and television actor. ... Mark Rolston (R) in Aliens Mark Rolston (December 7, 1956 - ) an American actor, born in Baltimore, Maryland. ... Whitmore in The Asphalt Jungle James Allen Whitmore (born October 1, 1921) is an American film actor. ... Jeffrey DeMunn (born April 25, 1947 in Buffalo, New York) is an American theatre, film and television actor. ... A district attorney is, in some U.S. jurisdictions, the title of the local public official who represents the government in the prosecution of criminals. ... David Proval (born May 20, 1942 as David Aaron Proval) is an American actor, known for his role as Richie Aprile on the HBO television series The Sopranos. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Paul McCrane as Dr. Romano on ER. Paul David McCrane (born January 19, 1961) is an American movie, television and theatre actor. ... Scott Mann is a British film director. ...

Production

Darabont secured the film adaptation rights in 1987 from Stephen King after impressing the author with his short film adaptation of "The Woman in the Room" in 1983. This is one of the more famous Dollar Deals made by King with aspiring filmmakers. Darabont later directed The Green Mile, which was based on another work about a prison by Stephen King, and then followed that up with an adaptation of King's novella The Mist. The Dollar Baby (also sometimes referred to as the Dollar Deal) is a term coined by best-selling author Stephen King in reference to a select group of student and aspiring filmmakers for whom he has granted permission to adapt one of his short stories for the sole consideration of... The Green Mile (1999) is an American drama movie, and is directed by Frank Darabont. ... The Mist, also known as Stephen Kings The Mist, is a 2007 American horror film based on the 1980 novella The Mist by Stephen King. ...

The Shawshank Redemption was filmed in and around the city of Mansfield, Ohio, located in north-central Ohio. The prison featured in the film is the old, abandoned Ohio State Reformatory immediately north of downtown Mansfield. The Reformatory buildings have been used in several other films, including Harry and Walter Go to New York, Air Force One and Tango and Cash. Most of the prison yard has now been demolished to make room for expansion of the adjacent Richland Correctional Institute, but the Reformatory's Gothic Administration Building remains standing and, due to its prominent use in films, has become a tourist attraction. The real warden of the Richland Correctional Institute had a cameo appearance in Shawshank as the prisoner seated directly behind Tommy on his bus ride to prison and several other staff members from the nearby Mansfield Correctional Institution have small roles. Nickname: Location within the state of Ohio Coordinates: , Country State County Richland Founded 1808 Incorporated 1828 (village) - 1857 (city) Government  - Mayor Donald Culliver (D) Area [1]  - City 29. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Ohio State Reformatory, circa 2005. ... Terrorist Egor Korshunov (Gary Oldman) confronts the President of the United States (Harrison Ford). ... Tango & Cash is a 1989 American movie starring Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell. ... The western facade of Reims Cathedral, France. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television. ...

Several exterior scenes were shot at the Malabar Farm State Park, in nearby Lucas, Ohio.^[1] The sequence in which Andy is parked outside his home contemplating murdering his wife was filmed at the Pugh Cabin within the park. The sequences representing the village of Buxton and the field where Red finds Andy's hidden letter were filmed on private land located opposite the park entrance on Bromfield Road. The oak tree is clearly visible from the roadside. The adjacent rock wall, which was constructed specifically for the film, is located on the far side of the hill away from the roadside. The wall is still standing, although it has been somewhat eroded. Other scenes were shot in Ashland, Ohio, Butler, Ohio, Upper Sandusky, Ohio and Portland, Maine. Malabar Farm State Park is an Ohio State Park, located near Lucas, Ohio, and the Mohican State Park. ... Lucas is a village located in Richland County, Ohio. ... Ashland is a city in Ashland County, Ohio, United States. ... Butler is a village located in Richland County, Ohio. ... Upper Sandusky is a city in Wyandot County, Ohio, along the Sandusky River. ... Nickname: Motto: Resurgam (Latin for I will rise again) Coordinates: , Country State County Cumberland Settled 1632 Incorporated 1786 Government  - Mayor Nicholas M. Mavodones, Jr Area  - City  52. ...

The photo of a young Red on his parole forms is that of Morgan Freeman's son, Alfonso. Alfonso is also seen in the yard when Andy's load of prisoners is first dropped off, shouting enthusiastically "Fresh Fish! Fresh Fish" whilst reeling in an imaginary line. Alfonso later played a parody of his father's character, Red, in a short spoof titled The Sharktank Redemption, available on the second disc of the 10th anniversary DVD. In contemporary usage, a parody (or lampoon) is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ...

The film ends with the prominent dedication "In Memory of Allen Greene". Darabont dedicated the film to his friend and agent, Allen Greene II, who died just before the completion of the film due to complications from AIDS.^[2] Dedication (Lat. ... For other uses, see AIDS (disambiguation). ...

Interpretations

Roger Ebert suggests that the integrity of Andy Dufresne is an important theme in the story line,^[3] especially in prison, where integrity is lacking. Andy is an individual of integrity (here referring to adherence to a code of morality) among a host of criminals, and guards, with little integrity.^[4] Additionally, some critics have interpreted the film as a Christian parable due to its handling of hope, original sin, redemption, salvation, and faith in the afterlife. Some Christian reviewers have referred to it as a film "true to Christian principles."^[5] In the director's commentary track on the tenth anniversary DVD, Darabont denies any intent to create such a parable, and calls such interpretations of the film "fantastic." Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... For other uses, see Christian (disambiguation). ... // For a comparison of parable with other kinds of stories, see Myth, legend, fairy tale, and fable. ...

Critical reaction

• In the 1994 Academy Awards the movie was nominated for seven awards (Best Picture, Best Actor – Morgan Freeman, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Sound) but, in the shadow of 1994's big winner Forrest Gump, failed to win a single one.

• In 1998 Shawshank was not listed in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies, but nine years later (2007), it placed at the 72nd position on the revised list, outranking both Forrest Gump (76th) and Pulp Fiction (94th), the two most critically acclaimed movies from the year of Shawshank's release.

• In 1999, film critic Roger Ebert listed Shawshank on his "Great Movies" list,^[6] and in reader polls by the film magazine Empire, the film ranked fifth in 2004 and first in 2006 on the lists for greatest movie of all time.^[7][8]

• The Shawshank Redemption, as of June, 2008, currently holds the #2 spot on the IMDB Top 250. It ranks second only to The Godfather, and currently has the highest number of votes than any other movie on the site, with over 330,000 votes as of 29 May 2008.

• In 2002, The Shawshank Redemption was voted the third greatest film ever made in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Film Poll.

The 67th Academy Awards, honoring the best movies of 1994, were held on March 27, 1995 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California. ... ©A.M.P.A.S.® The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to artists working in the motion picture industry. ... Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. ... For the Dawsons Creek director, see Morgan J. Freeman. ... The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. ... Charles Rosher the first recipient in 1928 The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is awarded each year to a cinematographer for his work in one particular motion picture. ... The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. ... The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. ... The Academy Award for Sound Mixing is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most aesthetic sound mixing or recording, and is generally awarded to the production sound mixers and re-recording mixers of the winning film. ... For other uses, see Forrest Gump (disambiguation). ... The year 1998 in film involved some significant events. ... The first of the AFI 100 Years. ... AFI’s 100 Years. ... Pulp Fiction is a 1994 film by director Quentin Tarantino, who cowrote the film with Roger Avary. ... Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Emap Consumer Media since July 1989. ... The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) [1] is an online database of information about actors, movies, television shows, television stars and video games. ... This article is about the 1972 film. ... This article is about the British television station. ...

Music

Main article: The Shawshank Redemption (soundtrack)

The score was composed by Thomas Newman, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1994. Interestingly enough, the main theme ("End Titles" on the soundtrack album) is perhaps best known to modern audiences as the inspirational sounding music from many movie trailers dealing with inspirational, dramatic, or romantic films in much the same way that James Horner's driving music from the end of Aliens is used in many movie trailers for action films. The Shawshank Redemption is the original soundtrack, on the Epic Soundtrax label, of the 1994 Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated film The Shawshank Redemption starring Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, Bob Gunton, William Sadler and Clancy Brown. ... Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film score composer. ... This article is about the film; for the video games see Aliens (Square computer game) and Aliens (arcade game). ...

References to other works

• Andy asks Red for a Rita Hayworth poster during a screening of Hayworth's film Gilda. He eventually replaces the poster with one of Marilyn Monroe in her skirt blowing scene from The Seven Year Itch and later with Raquel Welch from One Million Years B.C., which was not released until 1967.

• When Andy receives the first response to his letters to the Maine Senate concerning the prison library, the shipment includes a record of The Marriage of Figaro. Defying Norton, Andy plays the duet "Sull'aria Che soave zeffiretto" over the prison loudspeakers for all the inmates and guards to hear (the marvelous duet recorded by Edith Mathis and Gundula Janowitz).

• While sorting books in the library, Heywood asks Andy what to do with a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo. When Andy notes that the book is about a prison break, Red advises that they file it in the educational materials section.

• While talking to Red about Randell Stevens, an imaginary man used to cover up money laundering, Andy mentions that Randell Stevens is a "...second cousin to Harvey the rabbit." Andy is referencing an imaginary six-foot rabbit from the 1945 play Harvey.

• Andy's prison break is quite like that of Giacomo Casanova, as outlined in his memoirs History of My Life. When planning his escape from the Leads, Casanova had a pick which he kept in the back of a Bible, which Andy did with his rock hammer. Also, Casanova instructed a fellow prisoner to put pictures of saints up on the wall to cover up the hole he was making.

• When Warden Norton hears the sirens coming for him and opens his safe, he finds Andy's Bible in place of the bribe book that Andy smuggled out upon his escape. On the inset of the cover, Andy had written "Dear Warden: You were right, salvation lay within", which the warden once said to Andy in referring to the Bible. The warden flips further into the book and finds the cut-out pages that housed Andy's rock-hammer, which allowed him to tunnel out and escape over the course of 19 years. The opposing page to the start of the rock-hammer's cut-out is the page that begins the Bible's section entitled Exodus (which in the Bible describes the departure of the Israelites from slavery to freedom), showing how Andy's Bible, in a physical, ironic, and literal sense, was Andy's path to salvation.

Gilda (1946) is a black-and-white film noir directed by Charles Vidor. ... Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson;[1] June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), was a Golden Globe-winning[2] American actress, singer, model, Hollywood icon,[3] cultural icon, fashion icon,[4] pop icon, film executive and sex symbol. ... This article or section seems to contain too many quotations for an encyclopedia entry. ... One Million Years B.C. is a 1966 (released in the U.S. in 1967) adventure film and fantasy film starring Raquel Welch set - loosely - in the time of cavemen. ... The debating chamber of the Maine Senate in the State House in Augusta The Maine Senate is the upper house of the Maine Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maine. ... Le Nozze di Figaro, is a comic opera composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Beaumarchais. ... Edith Mathis (born February 11, 1938, Lucerne) was a Swiss soprano. ... Gundula Janowitz (born August 2, 1937 in Berlin, Germany) was one of the greatest lyric sopranos in modern history, renowned for her magnificent tone -- often described as creamy or silvery -- and her vocal control at the top of her range. ... The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas. ... This is an article about the play called Harvey. ... Casanova redirects here. ...

Impact

• As reported in the New York Times, this movie was in news headlines on December 17, 2007, as two jail inmates escaped from a high-security unit of the Union County jail, New Jersey, in what news reporters described as "Shawshank-style escape". They used photos of bikini-clad women to hide their escape holes. Both were eventually caught. ^[9]

A subplot of the 2006 movie "Puff, Puff, Pass" involves the two main characters trying to find a television with cable so they can watch a weekend marathon of "The Shank". One doesn't remember Andy being sodomized in prison, while the other insists that it's a major plot point. Other parts of Shawshank Redemption are referenced throughout the film. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...

See also

• List of fictional prisons
• Films considered the greatest ever

This list consists of fictional prisons from various works of literature, film, and television: See also List of penal institutions in comics Category: ... While there is no agreement upon the greatest film of all time, many publications and organizations have tried to determine the films considered the greatest ever. ...

References

2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... is the 360th day of the year (361st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... is the 360th day of the year (361st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events of 2008: (EMILY) Me Lesley and MIley are going to China! This article is about the year. ... is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Emap Consumer Media since July 1989. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Emap Consumer Media since July 1989. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...

Further reading

• Mark Kermode (October 1, 2003). The Shawshank Redemption. London: British Film Institute. ISBN 978-0851709680. 

Mark Kermode (born Mark Fairey[1] on 2 July 1963) is an English film critic who regularly writes for Sight and Sound magazine and The Observer newspaper. ... is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The British Film Institute (BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and...

External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:

The Shawshank Redemption

• The Shawshank Redemption at the Internet Movie Database
• The Shawshank Redemption at Allmovie
• The Shawshank Redemption review by Roger Ebert
• The Shawshank Redemption review by Roger Ebert as "Great Movie"
• The Shawshank Redemption at Filmsite.org
• The script for the film - varies slightly from the final version.
• The Shawshank Redemption at the Arts & Faith Top100 Spiritually Significant Films list
• A review from The Washington Post
• A review from PrisonFlicks.com