CJ7 vs On Borrowed Time

On Borrowed Time has the higher audience score (7.5/10 against 7.3/10 for CJ7). CJ7 is the shorter watch at 1h 28m compared with 1h 39m. On Borrowed Time is the older of the two (1939 against 2008). Both are comedy, drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.

CJ7 posterCJ72008 VS On Borrowed Time posterOn Borrowed Time1939
CJ7On Borrowed Time
Audience score★ 7.3/10★ 7.5/10
Year20081939
Length1h 28m1h 39m
GenresComedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Science FictionComedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country––
DirectorStephen ChowHarold S. Bucquet
Main castYuen Shun-Yi, Vincent Kok Tak-Chiu, Stephen Chow, Lam Tze-Chung, Steven Fung Min-HangJames Burke, Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi, Una Merkel

Synopsis

CJ7

A poor construction worker, who struggles to keep his son in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to be much, much more once the young boy starts to play with it.

On Borrowed Time

Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra…

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