The Shawshank Redemption Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. Release date: 1994-09-23 Genres: Drama, Crime Actors: Clancy Brown, David Proval, Jeffrey DeMunn, Brian Libby, Morgan Freeman, Larry Brandenburg, Frank Medrano, Sergio Kato, William Sadler, Vincent Foster, Brian Brophy, Bob Gunton, Ned Bellamy, James Babson, Dion Anderson, Bill Bolender, Brian Delate, Mark Rolston, Don McManus, Tim Robbins, Alfonso Freeman, Mack Miles, Gil Bellows, Ken Magee, Gary Lee Davis, Paul McCrane, James Kisicki, Jude Ciccolella, Neil Giuntoli, James Whitmore, Rohn Thomas, Morgan Lund, Gary A. Jones, Claire Slemmer, Joseph Ragno, Renee Blaine, John D. Craig, Rob Reider, Neil Summers, Charlie Kearns, John Horton, Paul Kennedy, Cornell Wallace, Robert Haley, Chuck Brauchler, Scott Mann, Ron Newell, Gordon Greene, Alan R. Kessler, Dorothy Silver, Alonzo F. Jones, Dennis Baker, Harold E. Cope Jr., Dana Snyder, Donald Zinn, Eugene C. DePasquale, Joe Pecoraro, John E. Summers Direction: John R. Woodward Budget: $25,000,000Revenue: $28,341,469 Runtime: 2 h. 22 min. Score: 8.7/10 Votes: 28,640 Countries: United States of America Companies: Castle Rock Entertainment Available* : Overview: 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.