My Week with Maisy vs Patients

My Week with Maisy has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.4/10 for Patients). My Week with Maisy is the shorter watch at 18m compared with 1h 50m. Patients is the older of the two (2017 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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My Week with MaisyPatients
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.4/10
Year20242017
Length18m1h 50m
GenresComedy, DramaComedy, Drama
Country––
DirectorMika SimmonsGrand Corps Malade, Mehdi Idir
Main castMyAnna Buring, Joanna Lumley, Poppy Gilbert, Ellie-Mae Siame, Adrian ChristopherDominique Blanc, Yannick Renier, Alban Ivanov, Florence Muller, Rabah Nait Oufella

Synopsis

My Week with Maisy

Mrs Foster, a retired lady whose cup is half empty, is starting chemotherapy and is understandably anxious. The last thing she needs, is to have to share the treatment room with a 'know it all child' who wants to grow up to be a lesbian. But through their unexpected friendship, Maisy Jones gives Mrs Foster much more than just a glimmer of hope.

Patients

After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in a rehabilitation center. He meets with other handicapped persons (tetraplegics, paraplegics, traumatized crania), all victims of accidents, as well as a handicapped since his early childhood. They go through impotence, despair and resignation, with their daily struggle to learn how to move a finger or to hold a fork. Some of them slowly find a…

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