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Granada Ventures (a division of ITV plc) have announced a 3 disk 19th Anniversary edition of "The Shawhank Redemption" for release 20th September. Extras are: Disc I Feature Commentary by Frank Darabont Audio Description track English HOH Subtitles Theatrical trailer Biographies Memorable Quotes Disc2 Hope Springs Eternal - A Look Back at Shawshank Redemption Shawshank The Redeeming Feature The Charlie Rose Show with Frank Darabont, Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman (2004 US broadcast) The Sharktank Redemption Shawshank Stills Gallery: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Supporting Cast, Tim and Morgan Behind the Scenes Shawshank Storyboards Disc3 Tim Robbins complete interview (Andy Dufresne, Inmate 37927) Morgan Freeman interview (Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding) Bob Gunton interview (Warden Samuel Norton) William Sadler interview (Heyward, Inmate 32365) Clancy Brown interview (Capt. Byron Hadley) The release is priced at £19.99. From the PR: After ten years this movie masterpiece rates amongst the best and most beloved films ever made, regularly featuring in the 'best movie' polls and almost always in the top five. In fact, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION has just been voted into the Top 10 films of all time in the Diet Coke Film Fest 2004 and will be screened at cinemas around the UK on 25th/26th September 2004. This new 10th Anniversary edition will features more than three hours of extras including a Director's Commentary, from Frank Darabont, documentary featurette, the Shark Tank Redemption spoof, biographies, storyboards, stills and a clip from the Charlie Rose Show featuring Frank Darabont, Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. The cast is lead by Academy Award® winner Tim Robbins (Mystic River, Dead Man Walking -director, The Player) as Andy Dufresne, the bookish and gentle banker and Academy Award® nominee Morgan Freeman (Driving Miss Daisy? Se7en, Un forgiven) who plays fellow prison lifer Red. Adapted for the screen and directed by Frank Darabont making his directorial debut, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION was nominated for 7 Academy Awards® and a slew of others including a Golden Globe, Grammy and Screen Actors Guild award. Based on the short story "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" by acclaimed novelist Stephen King, the film starts in the 1940's with gentle, timid banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) sentenced to two consecutive life terms at Maine's Shawshank prison for the murder of his wife and her lover. Claiming his innocence throughout, initial prison life is hard and brutal, especially for the ingenuous Dufresne, however, he soon manages to form a friendship with Ellis Boyd 'Red1 Redding (Morgan Freeman), the procurement man of Shawshank. What Red can not get you, isn't worth getting. Soon Andy finds a use for his outside skills and ends up handling the prison's books and forming a relationship of sorts with the prison's warden. Narrated throughout by Red, the film tracks over three decades of Andy's incarceration in Shawshank chronicling his ways of keeping sane and human in an inhumane place. Known primarily as a horror writer Stephen King wrote this short novella, originally published in Different Seasons (1982), and sold the rights at a bargain price to budding director Frank Darabont; King had an informal policy of selling aspiring directors the rights to his stories for a dollar. Filmed at a de-commissioned prison, the Mansfield State Penitentiary in Ohio which was in such a state of disrepair that renovations had to be made prior to filming. Inspirational without being saccharine, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION is an old-fashioned tale of hope and spiritual freedom. Witho~t preaching or moralising Red and Andy's friendship is a reminder of the strength of spirit and will over tremendous adversity. |