Family Matters vs Soul
Soul has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7/10 for Family Matters). Family Matters is the shorter watch at 1h 39m compared with 1h 41m. Soul is the older of the two (2020 against 2025). Both are drama, family movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Family Matters | Soul | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.0/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2020 |
| Length | 1h 39m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Drama, Family | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Ke-yin Pan | Pete Docter |
| Main cast | Lan Wei-Hua, Tseng Jing-Hua, Aaron Hong, Cheng Yu-chieh, Alexia Kao | Daveed Diggs, Alice Braga, Wes Studi, Rachel House, Angela Bassett |
Synopsis
Family Matters
Elder sister, Spring, seeks her origins before heading to university, Autumn, the mother, grapples with conceiving a child through artificial insemination, Summer, the younger brother, tries to engage with a paternal figure he barely knows just before his military service, and Winter, the father, desperately tries to change his fate as problems mount up.
Soul
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to…
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