The number of times a person can watch this movie is limitless. If it hooks you, it's one that you know but watch everytime. I'm viewing a show of how it was made with cast and how it didn't do well at the theater. That's too bad but in all honesty, although it's about the numerous prisoners and prison staff, but I can see how it's one that is better set to watch at home. The overall concept of the various types of prisoners, guards and the Warden and the things that terrify and fascinate the average person. At the same time how intimate the movie truly is between an innocent man and how he survives because of the group he becomes surrounded by. In that sense it takes the power of friendships made can almost overpower the scary things beyond one's control. And so many other things that you get hooked by throughout the movie and the wonder we can have when it comes to that kind of life and the surroundings that goes along with it. This is that one that everyone chosen for this from Steven King, the director and each cast member was dead on the right choice.