The Shawshank Redemption vs Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

The Shawshank Redemption has the higher audience score (8.7/10 against 6.1/10 for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps). Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is the shorter watch at 2h 13m compared with 2h 22m. The Shawshank Redemption is the older of the two (1994 against 2010). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

The Shawshank Redemption posterThe Shawshank Redemption1994 VS Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps posterWall Street: Money Never Sleeps2010
The Shawshank RedemptionWall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Audience score★ 8.7/10★ 6.1/10
Year19942010
Length2h 22m2h 13m
GenresCrime, DramaCrime, Drama
Country––
DirectorFrank DarabontOliver Stone
Main castClancy Brown, William Sadler, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Joseph RagnoVanessa Ferlito, Josh Brolin, Susan Sarandon, Michael Douglas, Jason Clarke

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.

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.

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