Sing Street vs The Sessions
Sing Street has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 6.9/10 for The Sessions). The Sessions is the shorter watch at 1h 35m compared with 1h 45m. The Sessions is the older of the two (2012 against 2016). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Sing Street
The Sessions| Sing Street | The Sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.9/10 | ★ 6.9/10 |
| Year | 2016 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 45m | 1h 35m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | John Carney | Ben Lewin |
| Main cast | Aidan Gillen, Mark McKenna, Lucy Boynton, Jack Reynor, Maria Doyle Kennedy | W. Earl Brown, John Hawkes, William H. Macy, Helen Hunt, Adam Arkin |
Synopsis
Sing Street
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
The Sessions
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene to lose his virginity.
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