Love Jones vs What We Wanted to Be
What We Wanted to Be has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 7.4/10 for Love Jones). What We Wanted to Be is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 1h 48m. Love Jones is the older of the two (1997 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Love Jones
What We Wanted to Be| Love Jones | What We Wanted to Be | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.4/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 1997 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 48m | 1h 24m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | – | Argentina |
| Director | Theodore Witcher | Alejandro Agresti |
| Main cast | Larenz Tate, Isaiah Washington, Nia Long, Leonard Roberts, Marie-Françoise Theodore | Eleonora Wexler, Luis Rubio, Antonio Agresti, Carlos Gorosito |
Synopsis
Love Jones
Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with their friends, talking about love and sex. Then Nina tests the strength of Darius' feelings and sets a chain of romantic complications into motion.
What We Wanted to Be
An impossible love story that begins outside a movie theater, continues in a café and could end with the two protagonists together… if real life wasn’t much more complicated than the movies. United by their love of cinema, these two main characters decide to live the lives they dreamed of and not the lives they are destined to live. In a series of encounters, imagination triumphs over reality and everyday reality takes a back seat.
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