Beautiful Boy vs Hair of the Bear
Hair of the Bear has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.6/10 for Beautiful Boy). Hair of the Bear is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 59m. Beautiful Boy is the older of the two (2018 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Beautiful Boy
Hair of the Bear| Beautiful Boy | Hair of the Bear | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2018 | 2026 |
| Length | 1h 59m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama, Thriller |
| Country | – | Canada |
| Director | Felix van Groeningen | Alexandre Trudeau, James McLellan |
| Main cast | Julian Works, Maura Tierney, Timothy Hutton, Amy Ryan, Timothée Chalamet | Malia Baker, Robert Naylor, Roy Dupuis, Catherine Bérubé, Jonathan Lawrence |
Synopsis
Beautiful Boy
After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
Hair of the Bear
Refusing to go to school, anxious 16-year-old Tori is driven by her mother to her grandfather's rustic cabin in Eastern Manitoba on the remote American-Canadian border. As Tori struggles to adapt to the woodsman ways of her French Canadian grandfather, she ultimately must embrace the outdoors if she is to survive the deadly game of cat and mouse she is thrust into.
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