The Sessions vs What We Wanted to Be
What We Wanted to Be has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.9/10 for The Sessions). What We Wanted to Be is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 1h 35m. The Sessions is the older of the two (2012 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The Sessions
What We Wanted to Be| The Sessions | What We Wanted to Be | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.9/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 35m | 1h 24m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | – | Argentina |
| Director | Ben Lewin | Alejandro Agresti |
| Main cast | W. Earl Brown, John Hawkes, William H. Macy, Helen Hunt, Adam Arkin | Eleonora Wexler, Luis Rubio, Antonio Agresti, Carlos Gorosito |
Synopsis
The Sessions
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene to lose his virginity.
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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