The Shawshank Redemption

1994

Frank Darabont turned a Stephen King novella into a story about endurance behind prison walls. Tim Robbins plays Andy Dufresne, a banker sentenced to life for a murder he insists he did not commit, and Morgan Freeman plays Red, the fellow inmate who narrates two decades of their friendship. Bob Gunton is the warden whose piety covers his corruption, with William Sadler and Clancy Brown filling out life inside Shawshank. Quiet, patient, and built entirely on the idea that hope is worth keeping.