![]() The novella has been adapted into a film, The Shawshank Redemption, starring Tim Robbins as Andy, and Morgan Freeman as Red, and a play of the same name. The story ends with Red preparing to break his parole and follow Andy to Mexico. He finds a letter wrapped in plastic addressed to him from "Peter Stevens" inviting him to join Andy in Mexico and $1,000 in cash. In September 1975, Red receives a blank postcard from McNary, Texas, a "tiny town" near the Mexican border, and surmises that Andy crossed the border there. After a search, Norton discovers that the poster pasted to Andy’s cell wall covers a man-sized hole – Andy had used his rock hammer to slowly chip a tunnel through the wall. On the morning of March 12, 1975, after 28 years in prison, Andy disappears from his locked cell. ![]() Andy tells Red that one day "Peter Stevens" will own a small seaside resort hotel in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. In October 1967, Andy tells Red about “Peter Stevens”, a pseudonym under which Andy had sold off his assets and invested the proceeds. ![]() Over the years, Andy uses his financial knowledge to assist various prison staff. He later requests a large poster of Rita Hayworth, which he hangs on the wall above his bed. Andy asks Red to get him a rock hammer, which he uses to shape rocks he collects from the exercise yard into small sculptures. There, he meets Red, a prisoner who is known in the prison for his ability to smuggle in contraband items. He is sent to Shawshank State Penitentiary to serve a double life sentence. In 1947, in Maine, Andy Dufresne, a banker, is tried and convicted for the double murder of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence. ![]()
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