Band on the Run vs High Fidelity

High Fidelity has the higher audience score (7.1/10 against 6/10 for Band on the Run). Band on the Run is the shorter watch at 1h 28m compared with 1h 53m. High Fidelity is the older of the two (2000 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Band on the Run posterBand on the Run2024 VS High Fidelity posterHigh Fidelity2000
Band on the RunHigh Fidelity
Audience score★ 6.0/10★ 7.1/10
Year20242000
Length1h 28m1h 53m
GenresComedy, Drama, MusicComedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country––
DirectorJeff HuppStephen Frears
Main castLarry Bagby, Matt Perl, Dylan Randazzo, Landon Taverniér, Daniel BlairJoelle Carter, Tim Robbins, Lili Taylor, John Cusack, Iben Hjejle

Synopsis

Band on the Run

At the height of the Detroit Garage Rock movement in 1999, a wheelchair-bound father, his musician son and his band bond on a raucous road trip as they war with a rival band on the way to the South by Southwest festival.

High Fidelity

After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top five breakups of all time".

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