Similarities Between Shawshank Redemption And Stand By Me

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The movies "Shawshank Redemption" and "Stand by Me" are based from Stephen Kings' novellas. The movie "Shawshank Redemption" is a drama film released in 1994. The movie was based on Stephen Kings' novella "Rita Hayworth" and "Shawshank Redemption". The setting of this movie was in the year 1940's-1960's in Portland, Maine and the Shawshank State Penitentiary. The story of the movie was about a banker named Andy Dufresne who says he is innocent and he was not the one who murdered his wife and her lover. He was sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary and in there, he met an inmate named "Red" who was also sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary because he was a contraband smuggler and the both of them became friends. The movie