The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama directed by Frank Darabont, based on Stephen King's novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, starring Tim Robbins as a banker wrongly convicted of murder and Morgan Freeman as a fellow inmate who narrates his decades-long friendship and eventual escape from Shawshank State Penitentiary. The film underperformed at the box office on its initial theatrical release but found a large audience through home video and television broadcast in the years afterward. The Shawshank Redemption is widely regarded as one of the most acclaimed American films of its decade and is frequently cited in audience polls as among the greatest films ever made.
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What is The Shawshank Redemption based on?
A Stephen King novella from the 1982 collection Different Seasons.
The film is based on Stephen King's novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, first published in 1982 in the collection Different Seasons. It was the feature directing debut of its screenwriter, Frank Darabont, and it was nominated for seven Academy Awards.
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The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.
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The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama directed by Frank Darabont, based on Stephen King's novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, starring Tim Robbins as a banker wrongly convicted of murder and Morgan Freeman as a fellow inmate who narrates his decades-long friendship and eventual escape from Shawshank State Penitentiary.
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The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.
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