The Color of Friendship vs The Long Shot

The Long Shot has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.7/10 for The Color of Friendship). The Color of Friendship is the shorter watch at 1h 23m compared with 1h 34m. The Color of Friendship is the older of the two (2000 against 2004). Both are drama, family, tv movie movies, so they suit a similar mood.

The Color of Friendship posterThe Color of Friendship2000 VS The Long Shot posterThe Long Shot2004
The Color of FriendshipThe Long Shot
Audience score★ 6.7/10★ 7.8/10
Year20002004
Length1h 23m1h 34m
GenresDrama, Family, TV MovieDrama, Family, TV Movie
Country––
DirectorKevin HooksGeorg Stanford Brown
Main castPenny Johnson Jerald, Carl Lumbly, Travis Kyle Davis, Shadia Simmons, Anthony BurnettJulie Benz, Shannon Collis, Gage Golightly, Christopher Cousins, Marsha Mason

Synopsis

The Color of Friendship

Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black…

The Long Shot

A woman moves with her husband and seven-year-old daughter from Colorado to California and then her husband abandons them. While trying to rebuild her life, she finds solace while working at a horse farm and decides to enter her beloved horse in a high-stakes riding competition.

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