Cousins vs The Sessions
Cousins has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.9/10 for The Sessions). Cousins is the shorter watch at 1h 23m compared with 1h 35m. The Sessions is the older of the two (2012 against 2019). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Cousins
The Sessions| Cousins | The Sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.7/10 | ★ 6.9/10 |
| Year | 2019 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 23m | 1h 35m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Mauro Carvalho, Thiago Cazado | Ben Lewin |
| Main cast | Thiago Cazado, Paulo Sousa, Juliana Zancanaro, Denis Camargo, Eduarda Esteves | W. Earl Brown, John Hawkes, William H. Macy, Helen Hunt, Adam Arkin |
Synopsis
Cousins
Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail. The clash of reality between the cousins ends up causing unusual situations, and an unexpected…
The Sessions
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene to lose his virginity.
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