The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Red faces the parole board after thirty years and is denied release again.

Scene 118 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:03 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 118

After a banker is wrongly imprisoned for murder, he uses patience, expertise, and friendship to survive Shawshank and build a path to freedom.

Scenes 1–8
Andy’s former life and conviction frame a banker whose apparent control has vanished.
Scenes 9–10
Inside prison, Andy needs a way to survive without surrendering the inner self he is trying to protect.
Scenes 11–30
Andy enters Shawshank and confronts its violence, hierarchy, and rules.
Scene 31
Andy and Red begin the friendship that will carry the film’s argument about hope and connection.
Scene 51
Andy tells Red that prisoners retain an inner life and hope, though Red warns hope can be dangerous.
Scene 112
Andy broadcasts Mozart; the whole prison experiences a brief freedom of mind, revealing what hope can still do.
Just before
Scene 115
Andy is sent to solitary for broadcasting the opera.
Scene 116
Andy sweeps his arms to the music still playing in his head while he sits in solitary.
Scene 117
In the mess hall, the men joke with Andy about the broadcast and ask whether the punishment was worth it.
Scene 118
This scene

118INT -- SHAWSHANK HEARINGS ROOM -- DAY (1957)

Red enters, ten years older than when we first saw him at a parole hearing. He removes his cap and sits.

MAN #L

It says here you've served thirty

years of a life sentence.

MAN #2

You feel you've been rehabilitated?

RED

Yes sir, without a doubt. I can say

I'm a changed man. No danger to

society, that's the God's honest

truth. Absolutely rehabilitated.

CLOSEUP -- PAROLE FORM

A big rubber stamp slams down: "REJECTED."