Fireflies at El Mozote vs The Boys Are Back
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.3/10 for The Boys Are Back). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 44m. The Boys Are Back is the older of the two (2009 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Fireflies at El Mozote
The Boys Are Back| Fireflies at El Mozote | The Boys Are Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.3/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2009 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 44m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, History, War | Drama |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Ernesto Melara | Scott Hicks |
| Main cast | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk | Tommy Bastow, Clive Owen, Laura Fraser, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Natasha Little |
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.
The Boys Are Back
When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and other parents, he develops his own philosophies on parenting.
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