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Summary of Plot
Wrongly accused of a double homicide he didn't commit, a banker , Andy Duframe (Tim Robbins) is sent to Shawshank Prison for life. In Prison he befriends Red (Morgan Freeman) who is able to smuggle things from the outside. He then asks Red for a rock hammer & posters of pretty girls. After he befriends the guards by giving them financial advice on their taxes, the warden (Bob Gunton) takes an interest in him. Andy builds a prison library and helps the warden do shady financial scams. One day a newcomer named Tommy (Gil Bellows) tells Andy that in prison he talked to an inmate Ernie (Joseph Ragno) who said he killed a banker's wife and her boyfriend but that it was framed on Andy. Andy tells the warden who is skeptical. The Warden then has Tommy shot. Andy doesn’t want to help the warden with his scam anymore but the warden blackmails him into further help by threatening to destroy the library. One morning, Andy is gone. The Guards search his cell and eventually find that he dug his way out of the wall with the hammer and hid the hole behind the pretty girl poster. This feat took Andy nearly 20 years.
Andy then takes the money accumulated from the scam, coincidently a bankers salary for 20 years) and leaves town. The police attempt to arrest the Warden who commits suicide. Red passes his parole board
and reunites with Andy in Mexico.
Character Connection
In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), the protagonist, learns that only by freeing his soul from the self-torment of guilt over his wife's death can he free himself from the exile of the Shawshank Prison. Even thou Andy is in prison he is still a good man at heart. He creates a gift for his fellow prison inmates by spending his time transforming a formally useless space in the Shawshank Prison into the best prison library in New England. He also then educates Shawshank’s inmates. I see myself in Andy in that way, I feel that I am kind hearted...