Billy Elliot vs Taking Woodstock
Billy Elliot has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 6.2/10 for Taking Woodstock). Billy Elliot is the shorter watch at 1h 50m compared with 2h . Billy Elliot is the older of the two (2000 against 2009). Both are comedy, drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Billy Elliot
Taking Woodstock| Billy Elliot | Taking Woodstock | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 6.2/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 2009 |
| Length | 1h 50m | 2h |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Music | Comedy, Drama, Music |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Stephen Daldry | Ang Lee |
| Main cast | Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven | Jonathan Groff, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Paul Dano, Liev Schreiber, Imelda Staunton |
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…
Taking Woodstock
The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm…
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