Taking Woodstock vs The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs has the higher audience score (7.1/10 against 6.2/10 for Taking Woodstock). Taking Woodstock is the shorter watch at 2h compared with 2h 12m. Taking Woodstock is the older of the two (2009 against 2018). Both are comedy, drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Taking Woodstock
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs| Taking Woodstock | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.2/10 | ★ 7.1/10 |
| Year | 2009 | 2018 |
| Length | 2h | 2h 12m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Music | Comedy, Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance, Western |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Ang Lee | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen |
| Main cast | Jonathan Groff, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Paul Dano, Liev Schreiber, Imelda Staunton | David Krumholtz, Clancy Brown, Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Willie Watson |
Synopsis
Taking Woodstock
The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm…
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.
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