Captain Fantastic vs Embrace of the Serpent
Captain Fantastic has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 7.7/10 for Embrace of the Serpent). Captain Fantastic is the shorter watch at 1h 58m compared with 2h 5m. Embrace of the Serpent is the older of the two (2015 against 2016). Both are adventure, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Captain Fantastic
Embrace of the Serpent| Captain Fantastic | Embrace of the Serpent | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.9/10 | ★ 7.7/10 |
| Year | 2016 | 2015 |
| Length | 1h 58m | 2h 5m |
| Genres | Adventure, Drama | Adventure, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Matt Ross | Ciro Guerra |
| Main cast | Kathryn Hahn, Erin Moriarty, Steve Zahn, Viggo Mortensen, Frank Langella | Jan Bijvoet, Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Miguee |
Synopsis
Captain Fantastic
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, beginning a journey that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent.
Embrace of the Serpent
The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
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