Just Before I Go vs What We Wanted to Be

What We Wanted to Be has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.4/10 for Just Before I Go). What We Wanted to Be is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 1h 35m. Just Before I Go is the older of the two (2015 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Just Before I Go posterJust Before I Go2015 VS What We Wanted to Be posterWhat We Wanted to Be2024
Just Before I GoWhat We Wanted to Be
Audience score★ 6.4/10★ 7.8/10
Year20152024
Length1h 35m1h 24m
GenresComedy, Drama, RomanceComedy, Drama, Romance
CountryUnited States of AmericaArgentina
DirectorCourteney CoxAlejandro Agresti
Main castJack Quaid, Missi Pyle, Seann William Scott, David Arquette, Olivia ThirlbyEleonora Wexler, Luis Rubio, Antonio Agresti, Carlos Gorosito

Synopsis

Just Before I Go

Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for creating the shell of a person he has become. But life is tricky. The more determined Ted is to confront his demons, to get closure, and to withdraw from his family, the more Ted is yanked into the chaos of…

What We Wanted to Be

An impossible love story that begins outside a movie theater, continues in a café and could end with the two protagonists together… if real life wasn’t much more complicated than the movies. United by their love of cinema, these two main characters decide to live the lives they dreamed of and not the lives they are destined to live. In a series of encounters, imagination triumphs over reality and everyday reality takes a back seat.

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