The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Red listens for Andy to break down, while Heywood taunts Fat-Ass.

Scene 21 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 15 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 21

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.
Scene 11
Andy crosses Shawshank’s gate and enters the prison system that will define his life.
Just before
Scene 18
Red listens from his cell as footsteps approach the block.
Scene 19
The guard calls lights out and darkness settles over the tiers.
Scene 20
The new prisoners endure a night of panic, crying, and sickness in their cells.
Scene 21
This scene

21INT -- RED'S CELL -- NIGHT (1947)

Red waits at the bars. Smoking. Listening. He cranes his head, peers down toward Andy's cell. Nothing. Not a peep.

HEYWOOD (O.S.)

Fat-Ass...oh, Faaaat-Ass. Talk to

me, boy. I know you're in there. I

can hear you breathin'. Now don't

you listen to these nitwits, hear?