Hair of the Bear vs The Bench
Hair of the Bear 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 32m. The Bench is the older of the two (2000 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Hair of the Bear
The Bench| Hair of the Bear | The Bench | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.9/10 |
| Year | 2026 | 2000 |
| Length | 1h 32m | 1h 29m |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller | Drama |
| Country | Canada | – |
| Director | Alexandre Trudeau, James McLellan | Per Fly |
| Main cast | Malia Baker, Robert Naylor, Roy Dupuis, Catherine Bérubé, Jonathan Lawrence | Sarah Boberg, Jens Albinus, Anette Støvelbæk, Jesper Christensen, Nicolaj Kopernikus |
Synopsis
Hair of the Bear
Refusing to go to school, anxious 16-year-old Tori is driven by her mother to her grandfather's rustic cabin in Eastern Manitoba on the remote American-Canadian border. As Tori struggles to adapt to the woodsman ways of her French Canadian grandfather, she ultimately must embrace the outdoors if she is to survive the deadly game of cat and mouse she is thrust into.
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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