Chaos Theory vs What We Wanted to Be

What We Wanted to Be has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.3/10 for Chaos Theory). What We Wanted to Be is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 1h 27m. Chaos Theory is the older of the two (2008 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Chaos Theory posterChaos Theory2008 VS What We Wanted to Be posterWhat We Wanted to Be2024
Chaos TheoryWhat We Wanted to Be
Audience score★ 6.3/10★ 7.8/10
Year20082024
Length1h 27m1h 24m
GenresComedy, Drama, RomanceComedy, Drama, Romance
Country–Argentina
DirectorMarcos SiegaAlejandro Agresti
Main castElisabeth Harnois, Constance Zimmer, Sarah Chalke, Ryan Reynolds, Emily MortimerEleonora Wexler, Luis Rubio, Antonio Agresti, Carlos Gorosito

Synopsis

Chaos Theory

Frank Allen, a professional speaker who lectures on time management has a perfectly ordered and scheduled life, down to the minute. When his wife sets his clock forward 10 minutes as a joke, his day is thrown off. Deciding that his strictly ordered life has done him little good, he begins to make multiple choice index cards, choosing one at random and doing what is written on the card.

What We Wanted to Be

An impossible love story that begins outside a movie theater, continues in a café and could end with the two protagonists together… if real life wasn’t much more complicated than the movies. United by their love of cinema, these two main characters decide to live the lives they dreamed of and not the lives they are destined to live. In a series of encounters, imagination triumphs over reality and everyday reality takes a back seat.

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