An unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge...the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award nominee The Shawshank Redemption. Todd Bowden is one of the top students in his high school class and a typical American sixteen-year-old—until he becomes obsessed about the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. The inspiration for the film Apt Pupil from Phoenix Pictures. Four rambunctious young boys plunge through the faƯcade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. The film Stand By Me is based on this novella. A disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death.