HUB: PSK / the Book
PSK Comparables: Books & Movies
Prison Books / Books about Incarceration & Reform:
title | subtitle | author | publisher | year |
The 16th Round | From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472 | Rubin “Hurricane” Carter | Viking | 1974 |
The Shawshank Redemption | Rita Hayworth | Stephen King | Viking | 1982 |
Shantaram | — | Gregory David Roberts | Scribe Publications | 2003 |
Gulag Archipelago | An Experiment in Literary Investigation | Alexandr Solzhenitsyn | HarperCollins | 1974 |
The Sun Does Shine | How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice | Anthony Ray Hinton | 2019 | |
Man’s Search for Meaning | (Say “Yes” to Life: A Psychologist Experiences the Concentration Camp) | Viktor Frankl | Beacon Press | 1946 |
Law Man | Memoir of a Jailhouse Lawyer | Shon Hopwood | Crown | 2012 |
Orange is the New Black | My Year in a Women’s Prison | Piper Kerman | Random House | 2011 |
Sheer Madness | From Federal Prosecutor to Federal Prisoner | Andrew McKenna | self | 2015 |
Movies based on those books
- the Shawshank Redemption
- the Hurricane
- American History X
- OITNB
Movies about Bank Robbery
title | director | screenplay | stars | studio | year |
Stir Crazy | Sidney Poitier | Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor | Columbia Pictures | 1980 | |
Wisdom | Emilio Estevez | same | Emilio Estevez | Gladden Entertainment | 1986 |
Point Break | Kathryn Bigelow | W. Peter Iliff | Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves | 1991 | |
Dead Presidents | Albert & Allen Hughes | same | Larenz Tate, Chris Tucker | Walt Disney Studios | 1995 |
The Town | Ben Affleck | Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively | Warner Brothers | 2010 | |
Hell or High Water | David Mackenzie | Taylor Sheridan | Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges | Lionsgate | 2016 |
Baby Driver | Edgar Wright | same | Ansel Elgort, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm, Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx | TriStar / Sony | 2017 |