A banker is wrongly jailed for murder. Over the course of his life sentence, he forms a close friendship with a fellow inmate and earns a position of trust as book-keeper to the corrupt prison governor - giving him the time and opportunity to conceive a unique escape plan. Frank Darabont's drama, starring Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown and Gil Bellows.

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.