A wrongly imprisoned man ( freedom is taken away ) buys back, or " redeems" his life by escaping and exacting rightful punishment to those who had truly done wrong.
Frank Darabont directed The Shawshank Redemption(1994).
The duration of The Shawshank Redemption is 2.37 hours.
The Shawshank Redemption was released on 09/23/1994.
The Shawshank Redemption was created on 1994-09-23.
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Robert Gunton played the warden in Shawshank Redemption.
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Tim Robbins played Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption.
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It is based on a short story by Stephen King called "Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption". You can find the whole story online on many sites, usually as a .pdf.
Stephen King wrote the novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption on which the 1994 movie The Shawshank Redemption is based. It appears with three other novellas in a book called "Different Seasons".
"The Shawshank Redemption" is not based on a true story. It is a work of fiction adapted from a novella by Stephen King.