Lone Star vs Paper Towns

Lone Star has the higher audience score (7/10 against 6.2/10 for Paper Towns). Paper Towns is the shorter watch at 1h 49m compared with 2h 15m. Lone Star is the older of the two (1996 against 2015). Both are drama, mystery, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Lone Star posterLone Star1996 VS Paper Towns posterPaper Towns2015
Lone StarPaper Towns
Audience score★ 7.0/10★ 6.2/10
Year19962015
Length2h 15m1h 49m
GenresDrama, Mystery, RomanceDrama, Mystery, Romance
Country––
DirectorJohn SaylesJake Schreier
Main castChris Cooper, Frances McDormand, Joe Morton, Matthew McConaughey, Jeff MonahanJaz Sinclair, Cara Delevingne, Cara Buono, Austin Abrams, Justice Smith

Synopsis

Lone Star

When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

Paper Towns

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge, he follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Quentin arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Quentin soon learns that there are…

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