, 2h22 Directed byFrank Darabont OriginUSA GenresDrama, Crime ThemesPrison films, Évasion, Films about capital punishment, Buddy films ActorsTim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, James Whitmore, Clancy Brown Rating87% In 1947 Portland, Maine, banker Andy Dufresne is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences at the fictional Shawshank State Penitentiary in rural Maine. Andy befriends prison contraband smuggler, Ellis "Red" Redding, an inmate serving a life sentence. Red procures a rock hammer and later a large poster of Rita Hayworth for Andy. Working in the prison laundry, Andy is regularly assaulted by the "bull queer" gang "the Sisters" and their leader, Bogs.