The Shawshank redemption

Resource Information

The work The Shawshank redemption represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Wadleigh Memorial Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The Shawshank redemption

Statement of responsibility

Warner Bros. Pictures ; Castle Rock Entertainment presents a Frank Darabont film ; screenplay by Frank Darabont ; produced by Niki Marvin ; directed by Frank Darabont

Contributor

• Castle Rock Entertainment (Firm)
• Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Bellows, Gil
• Brown, Clancy
• Darabont, Frank
• Deakins, Roger A., 1949-
• Freeman, Morgan
• Gunton, Bob
• King, Stephen, 1947-
• Marvin, Niki
• Newman, Thomas, 1955-
• Robbins, Tim, 1958-
• Sadler, William, 1950-
• Whitmore, James., 1921-2009

Subject

• Adaptation -- Feature
• DVD-Video discs
• Escapes -- Maine -- Drama
• False imprisonment -- Maine -- Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• King, Stephen, 1947-
• Male friendship -- Maine -- Drama
• Male prisoners -- Maine -- Drama
• Melodrama
• Melodrama
• Melodrama -- Feature
• Prison -- Feature
• Prison films
• Prisons -- Maine -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Adaptation
• DVD-Video discs
• Drama
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Melodrama
• Prison
• Prison films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• fre
• eng
• eng

Summary

""Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises-- and he saves his best for last." -from container

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Roger Deakins ; editor, Richard Francis-Bruce ; music, Thomas Newman ; production designer, Terence Marsh

Dewey number

791.4372

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; language and prison violence

Language note

English or French dialogue, English or French subtitles; closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1995.9.P68

LC item number

S53974365 2007

PerformerNote

Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, James Whitmore

Runtime

142

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action