Ride Your Wave vs When in Rome

Ride Your Wave has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 5.9/10 for When in Rome). When in Rome is the shorter watch at 1h 31m compared with 1h 34m. When in Rome is the older of the two (2010 against 2019). Both are comedy, fantasy, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Ride Your Wave posterRide Your Wave2019 VS When in Rome posterWhen in Rome2010
Ride Your WaveWhen in Rome
Audience score★ 7.6/10★ 5.9/10
Year20192010
Length1h 34m1h 31m
GenresAnimation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, RomanceComedy, Fantasy, Romance
CountryJapan–
DirectorMasaaki YuasaMark Steven Johnson
Main castRina Kawaei, Haruki Ishiya, Kentaro Ito, Ryota Katayose, Honoka MatsumotoWill Arnett, Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel, Don Johnson, Danny DeVito

Synopsis

Ride Your Wave

Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love.

When in Rome

Disillusioned with romance, Beth, an ambitious New Yorker, travels to Rome for her sister's wedding, where she plucks magic coins from a special fountain of love. The coins attract unwanted attention from an assortment of odd yet ardent suitors: a sausage merchant, a street magician, an artist, and a male model. But when the best man from the wedding, persistent reporter Nick, throws his hat in the ring, Beth wonders if his love is the real…

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