Every Stephen King Movie Ranked Worst To Best

Perhaps the most popular of King adaptations, The Shawshank Redemption is a moving prison drama about a potentially innocent banker accused of murdering his wife, and the men he meets inside the walls of the eponymous prison. 

Is Andy Dufrense (Tim Robbins) an innocent man? Are any of these men above the possibility of redemption, whether it's Morgan Freeman's dealer Red or the film's callous warden (Bob Gunton)? 

Frank Darabont's film has no interest answering these questions. Instead, he gives each man we meet flaws and virtues of equal merit, and allows us to see them for who they are: human beings searching for meaning, hunting for hope, and - in the case of poor old Brooks (James Whitmore) - looking for a reason to hold on.