Band on the Run vs The Stories
The Stories has the higher audience score (7.4/10 against 6/10 for Band on the Run). Band on the Run is the shorter watch at 1h 28m compared with 1h 41m. Band on the Run is the older of the two (2024 against 2026). Both are comedy, drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Band on the Run
The Stories| Band on the Run | The Stories | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.0/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2024 | 2026 |
| Length | 1h 28m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Music | Comedy, Drama, Music |
| Country | – | Egypt |
| Director | Jeff Hupp | Abu Bakr Shawky |
| Main cast | Larry Bagby, Matt Perl, Dylan Randazzo, Landon Taverniér, Daniel Blair | Nelly Karim, Amir El-Masry, Valerie Pachner, Amr Abed, Ahmed Kamal |
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.
The Stories
The Stories is a decades-spanning Egyptian family saga and love story set between the late 1960s and 1980s. The film follows Ahmed, a young man from a Middle-Class Cairo family who dreams of becoming a concert pianist. During the tense summer of 1967, as war looms over Egypt, he begins a pen-pal correspondence with an Austrian woman named Elizabeth (“Liz”). A semi-autobiographical film based on the director's parents and how they met.
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