Ghost Town vs On Borrowed Time
On Borrowed Time has the higher audience score (7.5/10 against 6.5/10 for Ghost Town). On Borrowed Time is the shorter watch at 1h 39m compared with 1h 42m. On Borrowed Time is the older of the two (1939 against 2008). Both are comedy, drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Ghost Town
On Borrowed Time| Ghost Town | On Borrowed Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.5/10 | ★ 7.5/10 |
| Year | 2008 | 1939 |
| Length | 1h 42m | 1h 39m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | David Koepp | Harold S. Bucquet |
| Main cast | Greg Kinnear, Alan Ruck, Aasif Mandvi, Téa Leoni, Dana Ivey | James Burke, Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi, Una Merkel |
Synopsis
Ghost Town
Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!
On Borrowed Time
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra…
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