Big vs Ride Your Wave
Ride Your Wave has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 7.2/10 for Big). Ride Your Wave is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 1h 44m. Big is the older of the two (1988 against 2019). Both are comedy, drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Big
Ride Your Wave| Big | Ride Your Wave | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 7.6/10 |
| Year | 1988 | 2019 |
| Length | 1h 44m | 1h 34m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance |
| Country | – | Japan |
| Director | Penny Marshall | Masaaki Yuasa |
| Main cast | Tom Hanks, John Heard, Jon Lovitz, Robert Loggia, Elizabeth Perkins | Rina Kawaei, Haruki Ishiya, Kentaro Ito, Ryota Katayose, Honoka Matsumoto |
Synopsis
Big
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
Ride Your Wave
Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love.
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