Billy Elliot vs Man About Town
Billy Elliot has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 4.5/10 for Man About Town). Man About Town is the shorter watch at 1h 25m compared with 1h 50m. Man About Town is the older of the two (1939 against 2000). Both are comedy, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Billy Elliot
Man About Town| Billy Elliot | Man About Town | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 4.5/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 1939 |
| Length | 1h 50m | 1h 25m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Music | Comedy, Music |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Stephen Daldry | Mark Sandrich |
| Main cast | Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven | Monty Woolley, Cecil Kellaway, Norman Ainsley, Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour |
Synopsis
Billy Elliot
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon…
Man About Town
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
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