Double Happiness vs What We Wanted to Be
What We Wanted to Be has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.3/10 for Double Happiness). What We Wanted to Be is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 1h 27m. Double Happiness is the older of the two (1994 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Double Happiness
What We Wanted to Be| Double Happiness | What We Wanted to Be | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.3/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 1994 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 27m | 1h 24m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | – | Argentina |
| Director | Mina Shum | Alejandro Agresti |
| Main cast | Callum Keith Rennie, Sandra Oh, Alannah Ong, Lesley Ewen, Kevin Kelly | Eleonora Wexler, Luis Rubio, Antonio Agresti, Carlos Gorosito |
Synopsis
Double Happiness
Jade Li is a feisty, 20-something Chinese Canadian, trying to achieve that happy medium between giving in to her parent's wishes and fulfilling her own needs and desires - double happiness. Naturally, something's got to give and when love beckons in the shape of Mark, a white university student, the facade of the perfect Chinese daughter begins to slip.
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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