The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

The Shawshank Redemption rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb9.3/10· 3.2M votes

Rotten Tomatoes89%

Metacritic82%

TMDb8.721/10· 30K votes

With 89% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 9.3/10 on IMDb and 82/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About The Shawshank Redemption

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 of The Shawshank Redemption

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  Tim Robbins

  as Andy Dufresne

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  Morgan Freeman

  as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

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  Bob Gunton

  as Warden Norton

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  William Sadler

  as Heywood

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  Clancy Brown

  as Captain Byron T. Hadley

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  Gil Bellows

  as Tommy

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  James Whitmore

  as Brooks Hatlen

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  Mark Rolston

  as Bogs Diamond

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  Jeffrey DeMunn

  as 1946 D.A.

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  Larry Brandenburg

  as Skeet

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  Neil Giuntoli

  as Jigger

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  Brian Libby

  as Floyd

The Shawshank Redemption facts

Budget

$25M

Box office

$28.3M

Our take on The Shawshank Redemption

Frank Darabont's 1994 prison drama follows wrongly convicted banker Andy Dufresne across two decades inside Shawshank, and his friendship with lifer Red. Patient, warm and quietly stirring, it became a word-of-mouth classic about hope, endurance and the long game of dignity. If its slow-building emotional payoff moved you, seek out humane character dramas about resilience and friendship forged under impossible circumstances.