Admission vs What We Wanted to Be
What We Wanted to Be has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 5.6/10 for Admission). What We Wanted to Be is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 1h 47m. Admission is the older of the two (2013 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Admission
What We Wanted to Be| Admission | What We Wanted to Be | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.6/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 2013 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 47m | 1h 24m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | – | Argentina |
| Director | Paul Weitz | Alejandro Agresti |
| Main cast | Ben Levin, Sarita Choudhury, Paul Rudd, Wallace Shawn, Gloria Reuben | Eleonora Wexler, Luis Rubio, Antonio Agresti, Carlos Gorosito |
Synopsis
Admission
Straitlaced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school overseen by her former classmate, the freewheeling John Pressman. Pressman has surmised that Jeremiah, his gifted yet very unconventional student, might well be the son that Portia secretly gave up for adoption many years ago.
What We Wanted to Be
An impossible love story that begins outside a movie theater, continues in a café and could end with the two protagonists together… if real life wasn’t much more complicated than the movies. United by their love of cinema, these two main characters decide to live the lives they dreamed of and not the lives they are destined to live. In a series of encounters, imagination triumphs over reality and everyday reality takes a back seat.
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