Big vs Soul
Soul has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.2/10 for Big). Soul is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 1h 44m. Big is the older of the two (1988 against 2020). Both are comedy, drama, family movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Big
Soul| Big | Soul | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 1988 | 2020 |
| Length | 1h 44m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Penny Marshall | Pete Docter |
| Main cast | Tom Hanks, John Heard, Jon Lovitz, Robert Loggia, Elizabeth Perkins | Daveed Diggs, Alice Braga, Wes Studi, Rachel House, Angela Bassett |
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.
Soul
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to…