Crossing Over vs The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption has the higher audience score (8.7/10 against 6.1/10 for Crossing Over). Crossing Over is the shorter watch at 1h 53m compared with 2h 22m. The Shawshank Redemption is the older of the two (1994 against 2009). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Crossing Over
The Shawshank Redemption| Crossing Over | The Shawshank Redemption | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.1/10 | ★ 8.7/10 |
| Year | 2009 | 1994 |
| Length | 1h 53m | 2h 22m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Wayne Kramer | Frank Darabont |
| Main cast | Sarah Shahi, Alice Braga, Summer Bishil, Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta | Clancy Brown, William Sadler, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Joseph Ragno |
Synopsis
Crossing Over
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.
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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