Billy Elliot vs Rudderless

Billy Elliot has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 7.2/10 for Rudderless). Rudderless is the shorter watch at 1h 45m compared with 1h 50m. Billy Elliot is the older of the two (2000 against 2014). Both are comedy, drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Billy Elliot posterBilly Elliot2000 VS Rudderless posterRudderless2014
Billy ElliotRudderless
Audience score★ 7.6/10★ 7.2/10
Year20002014
Length1h 50m1h 45m
GenresComedy, Drama, MusicComedy, Drama, Music
Country–United States of America
DirectorStephen DaldryWilliam H. Macy
Main castJamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie DravenJamie Chung, Miles Heizer, William H. Macy, Laurence Fishburne, Selena Gomez

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…

Rudderless

A grieving father in a downward spiral stumbles across a box of his recently deceased son's demo tapes and lyrics. Shocked by the discovery of this unknown talent, he forms a band in the hope of finding some catharsis.

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