Billy Elliot vs Merrily We Roll Along
Merrily We Roll Along has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7.6/10 for Billy Elliot). Billy Elliot is the shorter watch at 1h 50m compared with 2h 25m. Billy Elliot is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are comedy, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Billy Elliot
Merrily We Roll Along| Billy Elliot | Merrily We Roll Along | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 8.0/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 50m | 2h 25m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Music | Comedy, Music |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Stephen Daldry | Maria Friedman |
| Main cast | Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven | Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, Reg Rogers, Krystal Joy Brown, Lindsay Mendez |
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…
Merrily We Roll Along
Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los Angeles. The story begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today. A live recording of the 2024 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical…
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