Life Is Beautiful vs Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Life Is Beautiful has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 7.5/10 for Me and Earl and the Dying Girl). Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is the shorter watch at 1h 45m compared with 1h 56m. Life Is Beautiful is the older of the two (1997 against 2015). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Life Is Beautiful posterLife Is Beautiful1997 VS Me and Earl and the Dying Girl posterMe and Earl and the Dying Girl2015
Life Is BeautifulMe and Earl and the Dying Girl
Audience score★ 8.4/10★ 7.5/10
Year19972015
Length1h 56m1h 45m
GenresComedy, DramaComedy, Drama
CountryItaly–
DirectorRoberto BenigniAlfonso Gomez-Rejon
Main castRoberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bini BustricJon Bernthal, Olivia Cooke, Connie Britton, Molly Shannon, Nick Offerman

Synopsis

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.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.

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