Forgiveness Girl vs The Bench

Forgiveness Girl has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.9/10 for The Bench). The Bench is the shorter watch at 1h 29m compared with 1h 51m. The Bench is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Forgiveness Girl posterForgiveness Girl2025 VS The Bench posterThe Bench2000
Forgiveness GirlThe Bench
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.9/10
Year20252000
Length1h 51m1h 29m
GenresDrama, FamilyDrama
CountryUS–
DirectorRob DiamondPer Fly
Main castWalter Platz, Scarlett Diamond, Mia Hansen, Melinda YeamanSarah Boberg, Jens Albinus, Anette Støvelbæk, Jesper Christensen, Nicolaj Kopernikus

Synopsis

Forgiveness Girl

A little girl with cerebral palsy is relentlessly bullied throughout her life, yet finds it in her heart to forgive by seeking strength from a higher source above.

The Bench

Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project boss him about. When Kaj's daughter, with whom he has not been in touch for nineteen years, moves into the same council estate on the run from her violent husband, a change comes over Kaj. His…

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