Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 142 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
The story
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.
- prison
- friendship
- police brutality
- corruption
- based on novel or book
- freedom
- hope
- prison cell
- delinquent
- redemption
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Tim Robbins
Andy Dufresne
Morgan Freeman
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
Bob Gunton
Warden Norton
William Sadler
Heywood
- Clancy Brown — Captain Byron T. Hadley
- Gil Bellows — Tommy
- James Whitmore — Brooks Hatlen
- Mark Rolston — Bogs Diamond
- Jeffrey DeMunn — 1946 D.A.
- Larry Brandenburg — Skeet
- Neil Giuntoli — Jigger
- Brian Libby — Floyd
- David Proval — Snooze
- Joseph Ragno — Ernie
- Jude Ciccolella — Guard Mert
- Directed
- Frank Darabont
- Written
- Frank Darabont
Production
- Rating
- 8.7 / 10 · 31,254 ratings
- Studio
- Castle Rock Entertainment
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
