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.
The Shawshank Redemption has generally received very positive reviews.
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The Shawshank Redemption was released in 1994 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 985 reviews, giving The Shawshank Redemption (1994) an average rating of 89%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 95%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 86%.
With a score of 89%, The Shawshank Redemption is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1994, which stands at 57%.
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