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Frank Darabont has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Shawshank Redemption.
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
Dir. Frank Darabont · With Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
Dir. Frank Darabont · With Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
Dir. Frank Darabont · With Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, Toby Jones
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.
Dir. Chuck Russell · With Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch
A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
Dir. Chuck Russell · With Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Craig Wasson
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
Dir. Frank Darabont · With Lauren Cohan, Norman Reedus, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires in surprising ways.
Dir. Frank Darabont · With Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, William Atherton
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
Dir. Frank Darabont · With Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Laurie Holden
Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.
Dir. Chris Walas · With Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson
Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.
Dir. Kenneth Branagh · With Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce
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