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The story takes place in 1947, banker Andy because his wife was having an extramarital affair, drunk and wanted to use shot and killed his wife and her lover, but he ultimately did not start. However, an unfortunate coincidence - that night, another man shot and killed his wife and her lover, so Andy is accused of murder, and was sentenced to a life sentence, which means he will spend the rest of his life in Shaw shank Prison .

For a long time, Andy is almost no contact with anyone. Month later, Andy Please Rhett help him out of the first things is a stone hammer and want to spend time carving some small things, and said he wanted a way to escape the routine inspection of the prison authorities. After Andy and engage in huge poster of Rita Hayward, a wire attached to the cell wall


1960s, the young man Tommy imprisonment for theft, soon became a good friend of Andy and Red. Andy to think Tommy smart, very grounding, determined to teach him to learn the culture, so that he can use legitimate means to earn a living after his release. Coincidentally, Tommy overcome sentence to Shaw shank spent time in another prison, and Andy wife and her lover's death the truth from the same cell of a prisoner's mouth that excited Andy to find a prison long, hope the warden to help him reverse the verdict. The warden can not succeed as an excuse for Andy, Andy and the warden in a dispute, the warden said to him do not forget that he is in what capacity, and Andy off dark room a month. This month, the warden murdered told him to know the truth Tommy, Andy a dark room Shi you Tommy guards escape and kill the reason to deceive Andy, but Andy knew soup meters was murdered. The warden gave him a month, and called him a good think about how to do that (in fact, wanted him to continue to help him to money laundering ). Because he worried the gray income exposure, on the other hand, he also think Andy has remained in prison to help him do account.


Andy knew the truth, it is decided to get freedom through their own salvation! Action before he gave Reid said some "strange", called Reid If one day out of prison to go to a place where there will be things he left Reid. Andy efforts to successfully jailbreak jailbreak tool is that the Bible "Redemption Road", and that the small stone hammer hidden in the book (the book is carving out a just used to put the stone hammer grooves). He took the money help warden wash (12 banks were to take away U.S. $ 370,000), and will be sent to the newspaper evidence warden suspected of corruption and murder. Subsequently, a large number of police and journalists flocked to Shaw shank the desperate warden locked themselves in the office, and finally shot himself.
Andy jailbreak reach the outfall tunnel dug yourself, and then climb over the creek (the film back to the escape route close-up of the outfall to the outside, and measured three ways to describe the outfall length: 500 yards; the length of five football fields; half a mile, based on visual inspection at least 1Km want to express the meaning of several described specifically stated Andy finally the more the prison, they do one called legendary things, details refer to individuals in the United States heroism. Reid was released on parole after his release, he found Andy left for him gifts - stack of nominal value 50 dollars and a letter, the letter which comes to the matter of "hope", and also the movie theme that "hope" is a terrible thing, and today Andy prove to him, "hope" should exist, and called in the letter to Reid went looking for him in Mexico, Rhett overcome in prison Reid a parole after a psychological crisis, found Andy. The two friends eventually meet.