Hanging Up vs Life Is Beautiful
Life Is Beautiful has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 5.3/10 for Hanging Up). Hanging Up is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 1h 56m. Life Is Beautiful is the older of the two (1997 against 2000). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Hanging Up
Life Is Beautiful| Hanging Up | Life Is Beautiful | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.3/10 | ★ 8.4/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 1997 |
| Length | 1h 34m | 1h 56m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Comedy, Drama |
| Country | – | Italy |
| Director | Diane Keaton | Roberto Benigni |
| Main cast | Tracee Ellis Ross, Lisa Kudrow, Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton, Walter Matthau | Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bini Bustric |
Synopsis
Hanging Up
Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind - when their curmudgeonly father, Lou, is admitted to a Los Angeles Hospital. After years of wild living, intermittent affection, and constant phoning, he is finally threatening to die.
Life Is Beautiful
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
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