Green Book vs The Descendants

Green Book has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 6.8/10 for The Descendants). The Descendants is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 10m. The Descendants is the older of the two (2011 against 2018). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Green Book posterGreen Book2018 VS The Descendants posterThe Descendants2011
Green BookThe Descendants
Audience score★ 8.2/10★ 6.8/10
Year20182011
Length2h 10m1h 55m
GenresComedy, Drama, HistoryComedy, Drama
CountryUnited States of AmericaUnited States of America
DirectorPeter FarrellyAlexander Payne
Main castSebastian Maniscalco, Viggo Mortensen, P.J. Byrne, Mahershala Ali, Joe CorteseGeorge Clooney, Michael Ontkean, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Matt Corboy

Synopsis

Green Book

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

The Descendants

With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront a young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.

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