A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints vs The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption has the higher audience score (8.7/10 against 6.5/10 for A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints). A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is the shorter watch at 1h 44m compared with 2h 22m. The Shawshank Redemption is the older of the two (1994 against 2006). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
The Shawshank Redemption| A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints | The Shawshank Redemption | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.5/10 | ★ 8.7/10 |
| Year | 2006 | 1994 |
| Length | 1h 44m | 2h 22m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Dito Montiel | Frank Darabont |
| Main cast | Rosario Dawson, Robert Downey Jr., Chance Kelly, Shia LaBeouf, Channing Tatum | Clancy Brown, William Sadler, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Joseph Ragno |
Synopsis
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike.
The Shawshank Redemption
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
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