The Shawshank Redemption · written by Frank Darabont · 1994

Brooks wakes frightened from a bad dream in his unfamiliar room.

Scene 93 of 249 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

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Begins 54 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 93

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.
Just before
Scene 90
Brooks enters the dingy room, unsure what to do with his freedom.
Scene 91
Brooks struggles to keep pace bagging groceries in the noisy Foodway.
Scene 92
Brooks feeds pigeons and hopes Jake might return.
Scene 93
This scene

93INT -- BROOKS' ROOM -- NIGHT (1954)

Dark. Traffic outside. Brooks wakes up. Disoriented. Afraid. Somewhere in the night, a LOUD ARGUMENT is taking place.

BROOKS (V.O.)

I have trouble sleeping at night.

The bed is too big. I have bad

dreams, like I'm falling. I wake up

scared. Sometimes it takes me a

while to remember where I am.