"The Shawshank Redemption"
Plot summary:
The story takes place in 1947. Banker Andy killed his wife and her husband with a gun because of her extramarital affair. Her lover, so he was accused of shooting his wife and her lover, and Andy was sentenced to life imprisonment, which means that he will spend the rest of his life in Seank Prison.
Ari was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in 1927, and was paroled several times without success. He has now become the "authority figure" in Shawnker's prison, and as long as you can pay, he can get almost anything you want: cigarettes, candy, alcohol, even marijuana. Whenever a new prisoner arrives, everyone bets on who will cry on the first night. Ari thought Andy, who was weak and bookish, would cry, but Andy's silence cost him four packs of cigarettes. But it also made Ari look at him differently.
For a long time, Andy did not have contact with anyone. While everyone complained, he took a leisurely walk in the yard, just like in the park. A month later, the first thing Andy asked Ari to help him was a small pickaxe. His explanation was that he wanted to carve some small things to kill time, and said that he would find a way to escape from prison. routine inspection. Soon, Ari started playing chess made by Andy. Afterwards, Andy made a huge poster of Rita Hayworth and posted it on the wall of the cell.
Once, Andy and several other prisoners went out to work, and he overheard the prison officer talking about tax collection. Andy said he had a way to make the prison officer legally exempt from this large amount of tax. In exchange, he won two bottles of Tiger beer for each of a dozen prisoner friends. Over a beer, Ari said he felt free again for the first time in years.
Due to Andy's proficient knowledge of financial systems, he quickly got rid of the heavy manual labor in prison and the harassment of other perverted prisoners. Soon, the famous Andy began to handle tax issues for more and more prison guards, and even their children came to him for advice on their education. At the same time, Andy has gradually become an important tool for money laundering by Warden Warden, Shawnk. Because Andy kept writing to the governor, he finally got a small amount of money for the prison to build a prison library. Prison life is very ordinary, and you always have to find something to do. Andy heard that Ari loved playing the harmonica, so he bought one for him. After the night is quiet, the melodious and gentle sound of the harmonica can be heard echoing in the prison.
The arrival of a young prisoner broke Andy's peaceful prison life: this prisoner had heard about Andy's case when he served in another prison before, and he knew who the real murderer was! But when Andy asked the warden to reopen the case, he was flatly rejected and was severely punished by two months of solitary confinement. In order to prevent Andy from being released, the prison did not hesitate to kill the insider!
Facing the cruel reality, Andy became very depressed... One day, he said to Ari: "If one day, you can get parole, you must go somewhere to complete a mission for me. Wish. That was the place where I had my first date with my wife. You will know what it is when you dig out a box under a big oak tree there. "That night, it was stormy and thunderous. The soul-saving Andy successfully escapes from prison.
It turns out that Andy has been digging holes with that little pickaxe every day for twenty years, and then covering the hole with posters. After Andy was released from prison, he took away some of the black money saved by the warden and exposed the truth about the warden's corruption and bribery. What the warden saw in the safe where he kept his small account book was a Bible left by Andy. In the hollowed out part was a pickaxe that was almost ground into a round head.
Ari was released, he found a box of cash under the oak tree, and the two old friends finally reunited on the sunny coast of Mexico.
Cast:
Morgan Freeman .... Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
Tim Robbins. ... Andy Dufresne, Inmate 37927
Clancy Brown .... Capt. Byron Hadley
Mark Rolston .... Bogs Diamond< /p>
John R. Woodward.... Bullhorn Tower Guard
Gil Bellows.... Tommy Williams, Inmate 46419
Paul McCrane .... Trout (guard)
William Sadler .... Heywood, Inmate 32365
Dion Anderson Anderson .... Haig (head bull)
Ned Bellamy .... Youngblood (guard)
Renee Blaine .... Andy Dufresne's wife< /p>
Bill Bolender .... Elmo Blatch
Larry Brandenburg .... Skeet
Chuck Brauchler .... Man missing guard
Brian Brophy .... Parole hearings man (1967)