Prison & Redemption : Comparables / Inspirations

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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