Join us March 1st as we celebrate the Playhouse Cinema's 4th anniversary since reopening in 2019!
Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to a tough prison. However, only Andy knows he didn't commit the crimes. While there, he forms a friendship with Red (Morgan Freeman), experiences brutality of prison life, adapts, helps the warden, etc., all in 19 years.
"A thumpingly good ode to friendship, hope, wit, wiles and wisdom, brimming with crackling characters and topped with the most twisteroo of twists." - Empire Magazine
"A beloved, incessantly revisited, stone-cold classic." - Times UK
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