Love Exposure vs The Next Best Thing
Love Exposure has the higher audience score (8/10 against 5.3/10 for The Next Best Thing). The Next Best Thing is the shorter watch at 1h 48m compared with 3h 57m. The Next Best Thing is the older of the two (2000 against 2009). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Love Exposure
The Next Best Thing| Love Exposure | The Next Best Thing | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 5.3/10 |
| Year | 2009 | 2000 |
| Length | 3h 57m | 1h 48m |
| Genres | Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | Japan | – |
| Director | Sion Sono | John Schlesinger |
| Main cast | Hikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka | Neil Patrick Harris, Rupert Everett, Benjamin Bratt, Josef Sommer, Madonna |
Synopsis
Love Exposure
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while operating for the sake of sin as an "up-skirt" photographer. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
The Next Best Thing
A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert's little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.
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