Love, Simon vs Shanghai Blues
Love, Simon has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7/10 for Shanghai Blues). Shanghai Blues is the shorter watch at 1h 43m compared with 1h 50m. Shanghai Blues is the older of the two (1984 against 2018). Both are comedy, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Love, Simon
Shanghai Blues| Love, Simon | Shanghai Blues | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 7.0/10 |
| Year | 2018 | 1984 |
| Length | 1h 50m | 1h 43m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Romance |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Greg Berlanti | Tsui Hark |
| Main cast | Miles Heizer, Drew Starkey, Tony Hale, Natasha Rothwell, Josh Duhamel | Henry Fong Ping, Shing Fui-On, Kenny Bee, Woo Fung, Sylvia Chang |
Synopsis
Love, Simon
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.
Shanghai Blues
In 1937 Shanghai, a soldier and a young woman have an awkward meet-cute in darkness under a bridge as they seek refuge during a bomb raid. Ten years later, the soldier, now a burgeoning songwriter and tuba-player in a marching band, is back in town desperately searching for his would-be soulmate. As fate would have it they end up living in the same building unbeknownst to each other. Through a series of mishaps, he mistakes her new ingénue…
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