Hereafter vs Soul
Soul has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 6.1/10 for Hereafter). Soul is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 2h 9m. Hereafter is the older of the two (2010 against 2020). Both are drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Hereafter
Soul| Hereafter | Soul | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.1/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2010 | 2020 |
| Length | 2h 9m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Drama, Fantasy | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Clint Eastwood | Pete Docter |
| Main cast | Bryce Dallas Howard, Matt Damon, Jay Mohr, Thierry Neuvic, Rebekah Staton | Daveed Diggs, Alice Braga, Wes Studi, Rachel House, Angela Bassett |
Synopsis
Hereafter
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
Soul
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to…