Forrest Gump vs Patients

Forrest Gump has the higher audience score (8.5/10 against 7.4/10 for Patients). Patients is the shorter watch at 1h 50m compared with 2h 22m. Forrest Gump is the older of the two (1994 against 2017). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Forrest Gump posterForrest Gump1994 VS Patients posterPatients2017
Forrest GumpPatients
Audience score★ 8.5/10★ 7.4/10
Year19942017
Length2h 22m1h 50m
GenresComedy, Drama, RomanceComedy, Drama
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorRobert ZemeckisGrand Corps Malade, Mehdi Idir
Main castGary Sinise, Robin Wright, Tom Hanks, Hanna Hall, Siobhan Fallon HoganDominique Blanc, Yannick Renier, Alban Ivanov, Florence Muller, Rabah Nait Oufella

Synopsis

Forrest Gump

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.

Patients

After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in a rehabilitation center. He meets with other handicapped persons (tetraplegics, paraplegics, traumatized crania), all victims of accidents, as well as a handicapped since his early childhood. They go through impotence, despair and resignation, with their daily struggle to learn how to move a finger or to hold a fork. Some of them slowly find a…

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