Fireflies at El Mozote vs My Own Private Idaho
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.1/10 for My Own Private Idaho). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 44m. My Own Private Idaho is the older of the two (1991 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Fireflies at El Mozote
My Own Private Idaho| Fireflies at El Mozote | My Own Private Idaho | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.1/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 1991 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 44m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, History, War | Drama |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Ernesto Melara | Gus Van Sant |
| Main cast | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk | Keanu Reeves, Udo Kier, Flea, Mickey Cottrell, Grace Zabriskie |
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.
My Own Private Idaho
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.
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