Life Is Beautiful vs The Rum Diary
Life Is Beautiful has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 5.9/10 for The Rum Diary). Life Is Beautiful is the shorter watch at 1h 56m compared with 2h . Life Is Beautiful is the older of the two (1997 against 2011). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Life Is Beautiful
The Rum Diary| Life Is Beautiful | The Rum Diary | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.4/10 | ★ 5.9/10 |
| Year | 1997 | 2011 |
| Length | 1h 56m | 2h |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Comedy, Drama |
| Country | Italy | – |
| Director | Roberto Benigni | Bruce Robinson |
| Main cast | Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bini Bustric | Amaury Nolasco, Aaron Eckhart, Richard Jenkins, Giovanni Ribisi, Johnny Depp |
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.
The Rum Diary
Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s 'The Lost Generation', Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman and her fiancée, a…
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