Breakdown vs Just Cause

Breakdown has the higher audience score (6.9/10 against 6.2/10 for Just Cause). Breakdown is the shorter watch at 1h 33m compared with 1h 42m. Just Cause is the older of the two (1995 against 1997). Both are action, drama, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Breakdown posterBreakdown1997 VS Just Cause posterJust Cause1995
BreakdownJust Cause
Audience score★ 6.9/10★ 6.2/10
Year19971995
Length1h 33m1h 42m
GenresAction, Crime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerAction, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country––
DirectorJonathan MostowArne Glimcher
Main castKurt Russell, Jack Noseworthy, Jack McGee, Rex Linn, M.C. GaineyLaurence Fishburne, Ed Harris, Blair Underwood, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Sarandon

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…

Just Cause

A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.

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