Life Is Beautiful vs Spike of Bensonhurst
Life Is Beautiful has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 5.4/10 for Spike of Bensonhurst). Spike of Bensonhurst is the shorter watch at 1h 40m compared with 1h 56m. Spike of Bensonhurst is the older of the two (1988 against 1997). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Life Is Beautiful
Spike of Bensonhurst| Life Is Beautiful | Spike of Bensonhurst | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.4/10 | ★ 5.4/10 |
| Year | 1997 | 1988 |
| Length | 1h 56m | 1h 40m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Comedy, Drama |
| Country | Italy | – |
| Director | Roberto Benigni | Paul Morrissey |
| Main cast | Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bini Bustric | Maria Pitillo, Rick Aviles, Frank Adonis, Sasha Mitchell, Talisa Soto |
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.
Spike of Bensonhurst
Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn.
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