Green Book vs The Rum Diary
Green Book has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 5.9/10 for The Rum Diary). The Rum Diary is the shorter watch at 2h compared with 2h 10m. The Rum Diary is the older of the two (2011 against 2018). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Green Book
The Rum Diary| Green Book | The Rum Diary | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.2/10 | ★ 5.9/10 |
| Year | 2018 | 2011 |
| Length | 2h 10m | 2h |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, History | Comedy, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Peter Farrelly | Bruce Robinson |
| Main cast | Sebastian Maniscalco, Viggo Mortensen, P.J. Byrne, Mahershala Ali, Joe Cortese | Amaury Nolasco, Aaron Eckhart, Richard Jenkins, Giovanni Ribisi, Johnny Depp |
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 Rum Diary
Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s 'The Lost Generation', Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman and her fiancée, a…
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