Billy Elliot vs Rags

Billy Elliot has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 7.3/10 for Rags). Rags is the shorter watch at 1h 28m compared with 1h 50m. Billy Elliot is the older of the two (2000 against 2012). Both are comedy, drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Billy Elliot posterBilly Elliot2000 VS Rags posterRags2012
Billy ElliotRags
Audience score★ 7.6/10★ 7.3/10
Year20002012
Length1h 50m1h 28m
GenresComedy, Drama, MusicComedy, Drama, Music, TV Movie
Country––
DirectorStephen DaldryBille Woodruff
Main castJamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie DravenIsaiah Mustafa, Drake Bell, Keke Palmer, Burkely Duffield, Zak Santiago

Synopsis

Billy Elliot

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon…

Rags

Rags follows the story of Charlie Prince, an orphan living with his acerbic and unloving stepfather and spoiled, simple-minded stepbrothers. Charlie's dream is to be a singer, and while he is vocally talented and can write music, he can't seem to catch a break. Kadee Worth, on the other hand, is the daughter of music mogul Reginald Worth and is an international pop phenomenon. While the world knows her as a glamorous superstar, she is secretly…

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