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Overview

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Réalisateur:
Frank Darabont
Writers (WGA):
Stephen King (short story "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption")
Frank Darabont (screenplay)
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Release Date:
23 septembre 1994 (USA) suite
Genre:
Crime | Drame suite
Accroche:
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
Plot:
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 13 nominations suite
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Autre(s) titre(s):
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (USA) (working title)
À l'ombre de Shawshank (Canada: French title) [fr]
Les évadés (France) [fr]
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MPAA:
Rated R for language and prison violence.
Durée:
142 min
Pays:
USA
Langue:
Anglais
Couleur:
Couleur (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 suite
Emplacements De Pelliculage:
Ashland, Ohio, USA suite

Curiosités

Anecdotes:
Red says he has no idea what the ladies are singing about. Actually, they're singing about the marriage ceremony and wedded bliss. suite
Goofs:
Continuity: In the aerial shot where Andy's bus approaches the prison, next to the gate is a red brick building and it's sidewalk is strewn with debris. As the bus pulls in seconds later and we see the gate and same brick building from the vantage point of guards who hurried from a tower, the sidewalk is clean. suite
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[first lines]
District Attorney: Mr. Dufresne, describe the confrontation you had with your wife the night that she was murdered.
Andy Dufresne: It was very bitter. She said she was glad I knew, that she hated all the sneaking around. And she said that she wanted a divorce in Reno.
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Soundtrack:
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31 out of 38 people found the following comment useful:-
This is How Movies Should Be Made, 18 February 2008
10/10
Author: alexkolokotronis de Queens, New York

This movie is not your ordinary Hollywood flick. It has a great and deep message. This movie has a foundation and just kept on being built on from their and that foundation is hope.

Other than just the message of this movie the acting was phenomenal. Tim Robbins gave one of the greatest performances ever. He was inspiring, intelligent and most of all positive. His performance just made me smile. Robbins plays Andy Dufresne who was wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. He is gets to life sentences but yet never gives up hope. In he becomes friends with Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding played by Morgan Freeman. Freeman who gives the finest performance of his career has unlike Robbins lost hope. He is in deep regret of the crime that he committed. His way of deflecting the pain away is by trying to not feel anything at all. With his friendship with Andy he learns that without our hopes and dreams we have nothing. Andy also becomes friends with the rest of Red's group. James Whitmore also gave a great performance as Brooks Halten who gets out of prison parole but in the words of Red he has been "institutionalized".

The directing by Frank Darabont was just magnificent. He kept this movie at a great steady pace along with the writing and great cinematography. He portrayed prison life in such a horrifying way, but not in terms of the physical pain but the stress and pain that wares mentally on the inmates, some of which deserve a second chance.

Whatever you do, don't listen to the people who say this movie is overrated because this is one of the most inspiring and greatest movies ever. It has everything you could possibly want.

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