Simply supereb. An outstanding movie.
The heart of this extraordinary movie is a brilliant and indelible performance by Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins. Lets discuss this all time classic here.

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Trivia about the movie:
The exteriors were filmed at the defunct Mansfield State Reformatory in Ohio. The prison was in such poor condition that renovations had to be made prior to filming. However, most the interiors were shot on a sound stage, because they determined it would be cheaper to build duplicates of the interiors rather than renovating the interiors of Mansfield.

And do you people know that in Stephen King's original story, Red was written as an Irishman. In the movie, they left the line, "Maybe it's 'cause I'm Irish", in as a joke, even after they had cast Morgan Freeman as Red.

Wow. I had no idea. Why is the world would they have chosen an african-american to play the part of the irishman!!!!

Watch the movie (again if you have to) and realize that NOBODY else could've played it with all the heart and talent of Freeman. I kinda went "huh?" when I first saw the casting but after hearing Freeman's narrative and seeing play his part... Red was perfectly cast!

Other trivia... Andy Dufrense was short in the novel while Robbins stands a towering 6-3.

This is my all time favorite movie by a mile. top 1 of 1.
I have seen it probably 500 times and every single time it is on TBS or HBO, lol

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I agree, this is one of the best movies ever and, I believe, Stephen King's masterpiece.

man of King's stories have been good movies like the green mile, shining, etc.

considered one of the best movies of that era

funny how very few people actually saw it in the theaters. it really became popular when it hit basic cable and the movie channels