Burt vs Patients
Burt has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.4/10 for Patients). Burt is the shorter watch at 1h 18m compared with 1h 50m. Patients is the older of the two (2017 against 2025). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Burt
Patients| Burt | Patients | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2017 |
| Length | 1h 18m | 1h 50m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Comedy, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Joe Burke | Grand Corps Malade, Mehdi Idir |
| Main cast | Oliver Cooper, Olivia Luccardi, Brenda Vaccaro, John Karna, Louis Lombardi | Dominique Blanc, Yannick Renier, Alban Ivanov, Florence Muller, Rabah Nait Oufella |
Synopsis
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.
Patients
After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in a rehabilitation center. He meets with other handicapped persons (tetraplegics, paraplegics, traumatized crania), all victims of accidents, as well as a handicapped since his early childhood. They go through impotence, despair and resignation, with their daily struggle to learn how to move a finger or to hold a fork. Some of them slowly find a…