Dan in Real Life vs What We Wanted to Be
What We Wanted to Be has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.6/10 for Dan in Real Life). What We Wanted to Be is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 1h 38m. Dan in Real Life is the older of the two (2007 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dan in Real Life
What We Wanted to Be| Dan in Real Life | What We Wanted to Be | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.6/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 2007 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 38m | 1h 24m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | United States of America | Argentina |
| Director | Peter Hedges | Alejandro Agresti |
| Main cast | Jessica Hecht, Emily Blunt, Norbert Leo Butz, Amy Ryan, Juliette Binoche | Eleonora Wexler, Luis Rubio, Antonio Agresti, Carlos Gorosito |
Synopsis
Dan in Real Life
Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love with is actually his brother's new girlfriend.
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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