Burt vs Pure Luck
Burt has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.6/10 for Pure Luck). Burt is the shorter watch at 1h 18m compared with 1h 36m. Pure Luck is the older of the two (1991 against 2025). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Burt
Pure Luck| Burt | Pure Luck | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 5.6/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 1991 |
| Length | 1h 18m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Comedy, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Joe Burke | Nadia Tass |
| Main cast | Oliver Cooper, Olivia Luccardi, Brenda Vaccaro, John Karna, Louis Lombardi | Martin Short, Harry Shearer, Scott Wilson, Danny Glover, Sergio Calderón |
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.
Pure Luck
The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the unlucky girl.