SPEC: Zero vs Starving in Suburbia

SPEC: Zero has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 6.5/10 for Starving in Suburbia). Starving in Suburbia is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 2h 18m. SPEC: Zero is the older of the two (2013 against 2014). Both are drama, tv movie movies, so they suit a similar mood.

SPEC: Zero posterSPEC: Zero2013 VS Starving in Suburbia posterStarving in Suburbia2014
SPEC: ZeroStarving in Suburbia
Audience score★ 7.9/10★ 6.5/10
Year20132014
Length2h 18m1h 24m
GenresComedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, TV MovieDrama, TV Movie
CountryJapan–
DirectorYukihiko TsutsumiTara Miele
Main castRen Osugi, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Erika Toda, Tetsushi Tanaka, Ryo KaseEmma Dumont, Paula Newsome, Izabella Miko, Brendan Meyer, Callie Thorne

Synopsis

SPEC: Zero

High school student Saya Toma lost her parents and younger brother in an airplane accident. Detective Akio Kondo came and told her "your family has a high possibility that they were killed by people who have spec." That was the first time she heard of "spec". 6 years later, Saya Toma, who has never forgotten what the Detective said, decides to become a detective. She returns to Japan after receiving training by the FBI in the United States…

Starving in Suburbia

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?

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