The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Andy struggles to learn the prison laundry line’s punishing routine.

Scene 28 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 19 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 28

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 25
Red sees blood where Hadley beat Fat-Ass and recalls that Andy cost him a bet.
Scene 26
Morning count begins, and Red studies Andy among the new prisoners.
Scene 27
At breakfast, Bogs and Rooster size Andy up while Brooks feeds a maggot to his crow.
Scene 28
This scene

28INT -- PRISON LAUNDRY -- DAY (1947)

A DEAFENING NOISE of industrial washers and presses. Andy works the laundry line. A nightmarish job. He's new at it. BOB, the con foreman, elbows him aside and shows him how it's done.