Smart People vs What We Wanted to Be
What We Wanted to Be has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 5.8/10 for Smart People). What We Wanted to Be is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 1h 35m. Smart People is the older of the two (2008 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Smart People
What We Wanted to Be| Smart People | What We Wanted to Be | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.8/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 2008 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 35m | 1h 24m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | – | Argentina |
| Director | Noam Murro | Alejandro Agresti |
| Main cast | Ashton Holmes, Elliot Page, David Denman, Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker | Eleonora Wexler, Luis Rubio, Antonio Agresti, Carlos Gorosito |
Synopsis
Smart People
Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.
What We Wanted to Be
An impossible love story that begins outside a movie theater, continues in a café and could end with the two protagonists together… if real life wasn’t much more complicated than the movies. United by their love of cinema, these two main characters decide to live the lives they dreamed of and not the lives they are destined to live. In a series of encounters, imagination triumphs over reality and everyday reality takes a back seat.
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