1994 · drama
The Shawshank Redemption
Directed by Frank Darabont2h 22m1994
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.
Our read: The Shawshank Redemption (1994) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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Neutral, measured, measured drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- measured
- redemptive
- tender
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