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04-07-2008This Month 04th Jul 14:26
From his difficult beginning of being born in a refugee camp in France after his parents fled their home in Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution Frank Darabont had become involved in filmmaking by the age of twenty.
He found immediate success as his short adaptation of The Woman in the room, originally written by Stephen King, made it to the semi-final listing for Academy Award consideration in the early eighties.
Darabont built up a good relationship with King and his big movie break came in 1994 when he adapted King's book Rita Heyworth and Shawshank Redemption into The Shawshank Redemption.
Before this he had found some success as a writer, for mainly television. As well as directing Shawshank he also penned the script starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.
Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover in the late 1940s.
However, only Andy knows that he didn't commit the crimes. Sent to Shawshank Prison to do hard time, Andy, a taciturn banker in the outside world, has to learn to get by in the brutal, cutthroat confines of prison life.
His quiet strength slowly earns the respect of his fellow inmates--most notably, Red (Morgan Freeman)--and even much of the prison staff.
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