The Roses vs What We Wanted to Be
What We Wanted to Be has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 7.1/10 for The Roses). What We Wanted to Be is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 1h 45m. What We Wanted to Be is the older of the two (2024 against 2025). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The Roses
What We Wanted to Be| The Roses | What We Wanted to Be | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.1/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 45m | 1h 24m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | – | Argentina |
| Director | Jay Roach | Alejandro Agresti |
| Main cast | Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman, Zoë Chao, Ncuti Gatwa, Andy Samberg | Eleonora Wexler, Luis Rubio, Antonio Agresti, Carlos Gorosito |
Synopsis
The Roses
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while Ivy's own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites.
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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