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Film Story
In 1947 Portland, Maine,banker Andy Dufresne is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, and issentenced to two consecutive life sentences at the Shawshank StatePenitentiary. Andy is befriended by contraband smuggler, Ellis "Red" Redding,an inmate serving a life sentence. Red procures a rock hammer and later a largeposter of Rita Hayworth for Andy. Working in the prison laundry, Andy isregularly assaulted by "the Sisters" and their leader, Bogs.
In 1949, Andy overhears the captain of theguards, Byron Hadley, complaining about being taxed on an inheritance, andoffers to help him legally shelter the money. After an assault by the Sistersnearly kills Andy, Hadley beats Bogs severely. Bogs is then transferred toanother prison. Warden Samuel Norton meets Andy and reassigns him to the prisonlibrary to assist elderly inmate Brooks Hatlen. Andy's new job is a pretext forhim to begin managing financial matters for the prison employees. As timepasses, the Warden begins using Andy to handle matters for a variety of people,including guards from other prisons and the warden himself. Andy begins writingweekly letters asking the state government for funds to improve the decayinglibrary.
In 1954, Brooks is paroled, but cannotadjust to the outside world after fifty years in prison, and commits suicide byhanging himself. Andy receives a library donation that includes a recording ofThe Marriage of Figaro. He plays an excerpt over the public address system,resulting in him receiving solitary confinement. After his release fromsolitary, Andy explains that hope is what gets him through his time, a conceptthat Red dismisses. In 1963, Norton begins exploiting prison labor for publicworks, profiting by undercutting skilled labor costs and receiving bribes. Hehas Andy launder the money using the alias Randall Stephens.
In 1965, Tommy Williams is incarcerated forburglary. He is befriended by Andy and Red, and Andy helps him pass his GEDexam. In 1966, Tommy reveals to Red and Andy that an inmate at another prisonclaimed responsibility for the murders for which Andy was convicted. Andyapproaches Norton with this information, but he refuses to listen and sendsAndy back to solitary confinement when he mentions the money laundering. Nortonhas Hadley murder Tommy under the guise of an escape attempt. Andy declines tocontinue the laundering, but relents after Norton threatens to burn thelibrary, remove Andy's protection from the guards, and move him to worseconditions. Andy is released from solitary confinement after two months, andtells Red of his dream of living in Zihuatanejo, a Mexican coastal town. Redfeels Andy is being unrealistic, but promises Andy that if he is ever released,he will visit a specific hayfield near Buxton, Maine, and retrieve a packageAndy buried there. He worries about Andy's well-being, especially when helearns Andy asked another inmate to supply him with six feet (1.8 meters) ofrope.
The next day at roll call, the guards findAndy's cell empty. An irate Norton throws a rock at the poster of Raquel Welchhanging on the cell wall, revealing a tunnel that Andy dug with his rock hammerover the last 19 years. The previous night, Andy escaped through the tunnel andprison sewage pipe, using the rope to bring with him Norton's suit, shoes, andthe ledger containing details of the money laundering. While guards search forhim, Andy poses as Randall Stephens and visits several banks to withdraw thelaundered money, then mails the ledger and evidence of the corruption andmurders at Shawshank to a local newspaper. FBI agents arrive at Shawshank andtake Hadley into custody, while Norton commits suicide to avoid his arrest.
After serving forty years, Red is finallyparoled. He struggles to adapt to life outside prison and fears he never will.Remembering his promise to Andy, he visits Buxton and finds a cache containingmoney and a letter asking him to come to Zihuatanejo. Red violates his paroleand travels to Fort Hancock, Texasto cross the border to
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