Fireworks vs The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption has the higher audience score (8.7/10 against 7.7/10 for Fireworks). Fireworks is the shorter watch at 1h 43m compared with 2h 22m. The Shawshank Redemption is the older of the two (1994 against 1997). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Fireworks
The Shawshank Redemption| Fireworks | The Shawshank Redemption | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.7/10 | ★ 8.7/10 |
| Year | 1997 | 1994 |
| Length | 1h 43m | 2h 22m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Takeshi Kitano | Frank Darabont |
| Main cast | Ren Osugi, Takeshi Kitano, Susumu Terajima, Yuko Daike, Makoto Ashikawa | Clancy Brown, William Sadler, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Joseph Ragno |
Synopsis
Fireworks
Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.
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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