The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

The judge sentences Andy to consecutive life terms for the murders.

Scene 8 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Inciting Incident
Save the Cat: Catalyst
Judge

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Begins 6 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 8

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

Scene 3
Andy sits drunk in his car with a loaded revolver, outside the cabin where his wife is with her lover.
Just before
Scene 5
On the witness stand, Andy recounts the argument and his decision not to grant his wife a divorce.
Scene 6
The prosecutor’s closing argument treats the physical evidence as proof that Andy murdered the couple.
Scene 7
Jurors eat dinner and quickly find Andy guilty.
Scene 8
This scene

8INT -- COURTROOM -- DAY (1946)

Andy stands before the dias. THE JUDGE peers down, framed by a carved frieze of blind Lady Justice on the wall.

JUDGE

You strike me as a particularly icy

and remorseless man, Mr. Dufresne.

It chills my blood just to look at

you. By the power vested in me by

the State of Maine, I hereby order

you to serve two life sentences,

back to back, one for each of your

victims. So be it.

He raps his gavel as we

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AN IRON-BARRED DOOR 9 slides open with an enormous CLANG. A stark room waits beyond. CAMERA PUSHES through. SEVEN HUMORLESS MEN sit side by side at a long table. An empty chair faces them. We are now in: