The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont that adapts Stephen King's short story "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption." In 1946 a young New England banker, Andy Dufresne (Robbins), is convicted and send to jail.
Shawshank follows his harrowing integration into a brutal prison society. He befriends Morgan Freeman's Ellis "Red" Redding. Technically, Freedman is the narrator of the film as his voice guides us through the many years spanning Andy's internal and external freedom from Shawshank and its horrendous inmates including some sadistic guards led by Byron Hadley. Underneath it all, though, this is a clever, if uneven, attempt to cinematically represent male friendship.
It isn't anywhere as good as its admirers pretend but it is touching at places. This isn't really King's short story but Darabont does provide, sporadically, some interesting symbols to garner at. More a rent it than see it flick but a rather good picture given the constraints the actors and director were under.
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