Hot Summer Nights vs The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption has the higher audience score (8.7/10 against 6.6/10 for Hot Summer Nights). Hot Summer Nights is the shorter watch at 1h 47m compared with 2h 22m. The Shawshank Redemption is the older of the two (1994 against 2018). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Hot Summer Nights
The Shawshank Redemption| Hot Summer Nights | The Shawshank Redemption | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.6/10 | ★ 8.7/10 |
| Year | 2018 | 1994 |
| Length | 1h 47m | 2h 22m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Elijah Bynum | Frank Darabont |
| Main cast | Alex Roe, Thomas Jane, William Fichtner, Jack Kesy, Timothée Chalamet | Clancy Brown, William Sadler, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Joseph Ragno |
Synopsis
Hot Summer Nights
In 1991, a sheltered teenager comes of age during a wild summer on Cape Cod, getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for the first time, partying, and eventually realizing that he's in way over his head.
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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