Michael vs On Borrowed Time

On Borrowed Time has the higher audience score (7.5/10 against 5.7/10 for Michael). On Borrowed Time is the shorter watch at 1h 39m compared with 1h 45m. On Borrowed Time is the older of the two (1939 against 1996). Both are comedy, drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Michael posterMichael1996 VS On Borrowed Time posterOn Borrowed Time1939
MichaelOn Borrowed Time
Audience score★ 5.7/10★ 7.5/10
Year19961939
Length1h 45m1h 39m
GenresComedy, Drama, FantasyComedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country––
DirectorNora EphronHarold S. Bucquet
Main castWallace Langham, Richard Schiff, Carla Gugino, William Hurt, John TravoltaJames Burke, Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi, Una Merkel

Synopsis

Michael

Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.

On Borrowed Time

Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra…

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