Cool Runnings vs Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Hunt for the Wilderpeople has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 7/10 for Cool Runnings). Cool Runnings is the shorter watch at 1h 38m compared with 1h 41m. Cool Runnings is the older of the two (1993 against 2016). Both are adventure, comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Cool Runnings posterCool Runnings1993 VS Hunt for the Wilderpeople posterHunt for the Wilderpeople2016
Cool RunningsHunt for the Wilderpeople
Audience score★ 7.0/10★ 7.7/10
Year19932016
Length1h 38m1h 41m
GenresAdventure, Comedy, DramaAdventure, Comedy, Drama
Country––
DirectorJon TurteltaubTaika Waititi
Main castPeter Outerbridge, John Candy, Raymond J. Barry, Leon, Doug E. DougRachel House, Sam Neill, Taika Waititi, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Oscar Kightley

Synopsis

Cool Runnings

When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican bobsled team.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.

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