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THE STORY
Few movies capture the triumph of the human spirit as memorably as _Frank Darabont’s film The Shawshank Redemption, from the same Stephen King story collection that gave us Stand by Me. It is an extraordinary tale of hope, friendship and survival inside a maximum security prison. Morgan Freeman plays Red, a lifer who knows how to cope with the bleak hopelessness of Shawshank State Prison. _Tim Robbins plays new inmate Andy, a quiet banker convicted of murders he didn’t commit – and whose indomitable will earns Red’s respect and friendship. Andy’s _resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. He’s full of surprises. _And the best comes last, leading to one of the most satisfying finales in film history.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Commentary by Frank Darabont
Hope Springs Eternal: A Look Back at The Shawshank Redemption
Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature
The Sharktank Redemption
Storyboards: Bogs Takes a Fall and New Fish Arrive
Photo Galleries
A TALENTED CAST
TIM ROBBINS (as ANDY DUFRESNE)
Tim Robbins began his acting career at age 12 in New York City. After graduating from UCLA, he landed supporting roles in major films like Top Gun and Bull Durham before his breakthrough lead performance in Robert Altman’s 1992 Hollywood _parable The Player, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film _Festival. In Shawshank, Robbins plays Andy, a mild-mannered New England banker convicted and sentenced to double life sentences for the murder of his unfaithful wife and her lover.
MORGAN FREEMAN
(as ELLIS BOYD “RED” REDDING)
After attending Los Angeles _Community College, Tennessee-born Morgan Freeman embarked on a long and successful acting career, first on the stage and then in film, where he has captured a Best _Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance in _Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby. He also scored Oscar nominations for the 1987 drama Street Smart, then, two years later, as Best Actor in Driving Miss Daisy(re-creating his Obie Award-winning role from the off-Broadway play), and received yet another Best Actor nomination for his portrait of “lifer” and prison “fixer” Red Redding in The Shawshank_Redemption, perhaps his most well-known role.
JAMES WHITMORE
(as BROOKS HATLAN)
After graduating from Yale while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, veteran star James Whitmore won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Newcomer for the Broadway show Command Decision. A Best _Supporting Oscar nomination came with only his second major film role, in 1949’s Battleground. Since then, Whitmore has maintained a steady and eclectic career. A prison librarian who’s been incarcerated his entire adult life, Brooks Hatlen has become institutionalized to the extent that his biggest fear is freedom.
BOB GUNTON
(as WARDEN NORTON)
A Vietnam veteran, California native Bob Gunton achieved early acclaim for his role opposite then-newcomer Meryl Streep in the 1977 Brecht-Weill musical Happy End, which marked Gunton’s _Broadway debut. Since then, he has earned Tony nominations for stage roles in Evita as well as for the title role in the 1990 Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd. Gunton has also demonstrated his versatility on film, notably as Samuel Norton, the devout, deceitful warden of _Shawshank prison.
WILLIAM SADLER
WILLIAM SADLER
(as HEYWOOD)
A graduate of the State University of New York and Cornell University, Buffalo native William Sadler is a veteran performer whose varied film roles have made him an _instantly recognizable face in _American movies. His talents made him a perfect fit for Heywood, a member of Red’s inner circle at Shawshank.
