Fireflies at El Mozote vs Holding the Man
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.7/10 for Holding the Man). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 8m. Holding the Man is the older of the two (2015 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Fireflies at El Mozote
Holding the Man| Fireflies at El Mozote | Holding the Man | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.7/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2015 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 2h 8m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, History, War | Drama |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Ernesto Melara | Neil Armfield |
| Main cast | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk | Sarah Snook, Guy Pearce, Geoffrey Rush, Anthony LaPaglia, Ryan Corr |
Synopsis
Fireflies at El Mozote
During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio network and hope to end their government's reign of terror with the help of an American journalist.
Holding the Man
Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years in the face of everything life threw at it – the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love can't solve tried to destroy them.
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