If you loved The Shawshank Redemption, try The Green Mile

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Frank Darabont, and they both carry the bittersweet mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Shawshank Redemption, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Green Mile is

Cold walls of a 1930s prison, a worn wooden chair, the sound of a cell door closing. A death row corrections officer and an enigmatic inmate with healing powers collide in a Southern prison. Frank Darabont adapts Stephen King with characteristic restraint.

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