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.
The Shawshank Redemption, the first theatrical feature written and directed by Frank Darabont (he�d previously directed Buried Alive, a nastily entertaining made-for-TV thriller starring Tim Matheson and Jennifer Jason Leigh), is based on a 91-page story by Stephen King called �Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption,� which he wrote shortly after finishing The Dead Zone and eventually published in his collection Different Seasons.