The English Teacher vs What We Wanted to Be
What We Wanted to Be has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 5.6/10 for The English Teacher). What We Wanted to Be is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 1h 32m. The English Teacher is the older of the two (2013 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The English Teacher
What We Wanted to Be| The English Teacher | What We Wanted to Be | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.6/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 2013 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 32m | 1h 24m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | – | Argentina |
| Director | Craig Zisk | Alejandro Agresti |
| Main cast | Jessica Hecht, Norbert Leo Butz, Greg Kinnear, Fiona Shaw, Nathan Lane | Eleonora Wexler, Luis Rubio, Antonio Agresti, Carlos Gorosito |
Synopsis
The English Teacher
Small-town Pennsylvania schoolteacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject. Then a former star pupil reenters her life after failing as a playwright in New York City. Seeing in his script the inspiration that she has always longed to instill in her students, this dyed-in-the-wool romantic enlists the help of long-suffering drama teacher Carl to mount the work as the high school’s next and…
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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