Hair of the Bear vs The Crossing Guard

Hair of the Bear has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6/10 for The Crossing Guard). Hair of the Bear is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 51m. The Crossing Guard is the older of the two (1995 against 2026). Both are drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hair of the Bear posterHair of the Bear2026 VS The Crossing Guard posterThe Crossing Guard1995
Hair of the BearThe Crossing Guard
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.0/10
Year20261995
Length1h 32m1h 51m
GenresDrama, ThrillerDrama, Thriller
CountryCanada–
DirectorAlexandre Trudeau, James McLellanSean Penn
Main castMalia Baker, Robert Naylor, Roy Dupuis, Catherine Bérubé, Jonathan LawrenceKellita Smith, Robin Wright, David Morse, Anjelica Huston, Piper Laurie

Synopsis

Hair of the Bear

Refusing to go to school, anxious 16-year-old Tori is driven by her mother to her grandfather's rustic cabin in Eastern Manitoba on the remote American-Canadian border. As Tori struggles to adapt to the woodsman ways of her French Canadian grandfather, she ultimately must embrace the outdoors if she is to survive the deadly game of cat and mouse she is thrust into.

The Crossing Guard

Unable to move on from the loss of his daughter, Freddy, now a shell of the person he was before, swears to kill the man responsible for her death.

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