Breakdown vs In the Electric Mist

Breakdown has the higher audience score (6.9/10 against 6.1/10 for In the Electric Mist). Breakdown is the shorter watch at 1h 33m compared with 1h 57m. Breakdown is the older of the two (1997 against 2009). Both are crime, drama, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Breakdown posterBreakdown1997 VS In the Electric Mist posterIn the Electric Mist2009
BreakdownIn the Electric Mist
Audience score★ 6.9/10★ 6.1/10
Year19972009
Length1h 33m1h 57m
GenresAction, Crime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country––
DirectorJonathan MostowBertrand Tavernier
Main castKurt Russell, Jack Noseworthy, Jack McGee, Rex Linn, M.C. GaineyKelly Macdonald, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary Steenburgen, Pruitt Taylor Vince, John Goodman

Synopsis

Breakdown

On their cross-country drive, a married couple, Jeff and Amy Taylor, experience car trouble after their SUV breaks down. Stranded in the New Mexico desert, the two catch a break when a passing truck driver offers Amy a ride to a nearby café to call for help. Meanwhile, Jeff is able to fix the car and make his way to the café, but Amy isn't there. He tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never seen Jeff or his wife before. Jeff…

In the Electric Mist

Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the film, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man who he saw being…

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