Boy vs Burt
Burt has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.3/10 for Boy). Burt is the shorter watch at 1h 18m compared with 1h 27m. Boy is the older of the two (2010 against 2025). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Boy
Burt| Boy | Burt | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.3/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2010 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 27m | 1h 18m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Comedy, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Taika Waititi | Joe Burke |
| Main cast | Rachel House, Taika Waititi, Cohen Holloway, James Rolleston, Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu | Oliver Cooper, Olivia Luccardi, Brenda Vaccaro, John Karna, Louis Lombardi |
Synopsis
Boy
Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.
Burt
Burt, a 69-year-old musician with Parkinson’s, has his life turned upside down when a man from New York shows up claiming to be his son. Having always dreamed of being a father, Burt embraces Sammy and invites him to stay for the weekend, where he lives with his grumpy landlord.