Burt vs Sugar
Burt has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for Sugar). Burt is the shorter watch at 1h 18m compared with 1h 46m. Burt is the older of the two (2025 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Burt
Sugar| Burt | Sugar | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.5/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2026 |
| Length | 1h 18m | 1h 46m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Joe Burke | Choi Sin-choon |
| Main cast | Oliver Cooper, Olivia Luccardi, Brenda Vaccaro, John Karna, Louis Lombardi | Park Cheol-min, Kim Sun-young, Choi Ji-woo, Ko Dong-ha, Min Jin-woong |
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.
Sugar
A hard-working mom Mira’s 9-year-old son Dong-myung collapses out of the blue due to Type-1 diabetes. Realizing Dong-myung now has to painfully take blood tests 365 days, her heart drops. Mira desperately looks for painless blood sugar monitoring devices globally and ends up importing ‘DexCom’ device, first time ever in Korea. Feeling empathetic to other patients, she begins to help other moms to buy the devices. However, Mira faces accusations…