Sorry Kids, The Days of Stumbling Upon a Great Movie on TV Are Over | TV Guide

The Shawshank Redemption didn't become a beloved favorite overnight. Released in the fall of 1994, it earned strong reviews (and later several Academy Award nominations) but underperformed at the domestic box office, earning around $28 million. For the sake of comparison, that's $30 million less than one of the films that muscled it out as it went into wide release in October of that year...
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