The Shawshank Redemption vs Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Shawshank Redemption has the higher audience score (8.7/10 against 8.1/10 for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri). Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 22m. The Shawshank Redemption is the older of the two (1994 against 2017). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The Shawshank Redemption
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri| The Shawshank Redemption | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.7/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 1994 | 2017 |
| Length | 2h 22m | 1h 55m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | United Kingdom |
| Director | Frank Darabont | Martin McDonagh |
| Main cast | Clancy Brown, William Sadler, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Joseph Ragno | Kerry Condon, John Hawkes, Amanda Warren, Željko Ivanek, Peter Dinklage |
Synopsis
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.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
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