Bravo!

Rating: 9/10 (18 October 2015)

This movie really good to watch for a movie maniac.
Although the film is set in Maine, the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio stood in for Shawshank Prison. The structure was slated to be torn down, but the production delayed its demolition for a year. After the film wrapped, all the buildings in the complex were torn down except the cell block and main administrative building, which were preserved for historical purposes.
Castle Rock Entertainment, the production company that made The Shawshank Redemption, was co-founded by Stand By Me director Rob Reiner and is named after the mythical Maine town that provides the setting for many of King's books. After director Frank Darabont pitched The Shawshank Redemption to Castle Rock, Reiner originally offered $2.5 million for the script to star Tom Cruise as Andy Dufresne and Harrison Ford as Red.