Mind Game vs Shortcut to Happiness
Mind Game has the higher audience score (7.5/10 against 5.6/10 for Shortcut to Happiness). Shortcut to Happiness is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 1h 43m. Mind Game is the older of the two (2004 against 2007). Both are comedy, drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Mind Game
Shortcut to Happiness| Mind Game | Shortcut to Happiness | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.5/10 | ★ 5.6/10 |
| Year | 2004 | 2007 |
| Length | 1h 43m | 1h 42m |
| Genres | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy |
| Country | Japan | United States of America |
| Director | Masaaki Yuasa | Alec Baldwin |
| Main cast | Koji Imada, Sayaka Maeda, Takashi Fujii, Seiko Takuma, Tomomitsu Yamaguchi | Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Alec Baldwin, Dan Aykroyd, Amy Poehler |
Synopsis
Mind Game
Nishi is a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place.
Shortcut to Happiness
In Manhattan, the aspirant writer Jabez Stone is a complete loser: he is not able to sell his novels, he lives in a lousy apartment and he does not have success with women. When one of his friends Julius Jenson sells his novel for US$ 190,000.00 to an editor, Jabez fells envy and promises to sell his soul to the devil for success and accidentally kills a woman with his typing machine. The Devil knocks on his door, fixes the situation and seals…
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