Burt vs Red Dirt
Burt has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.7/10 for Red Dirt). Burt is the shorter watch at 1h 18m compared with 1h 50m. Red Dirt is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Burt
Red Dirt| Burt | Red Dirt | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 5.7/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2000 |
| Length | 1h 18m | 1h 50m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Joe Burke | Tag Purvis |
| Main cast | Oliver Cooper, Olivia Luccardi, Brenda Vaccaro, John Karna, Louis Lombardi | Walton Goggins, Glenn Shadix, Karen Black, Aleksa Palladino, Jo-Ann Robinson |
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.
Red Dirt
At only twenty, Griffith is struggling with the responsibilities of caring for his unwell aunt, grieving the loss of their family's matriarch, and his own dreams of leaving Pine Apple. With the arrival of a stranger, Griffith's carefully constructed walls of shame and silence begin to come down and his life takes an unexpected turn.