Boogie Nights vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.6/10 for Boogie Nights). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 2h 36m. Boogie Nights is the older of the two (1997 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Boogie Nights
National Theatre Live: Antigone| Boogie Nights | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 1997 | 2012 |
| Length | 2h 36m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Paul Thomas Anderson | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Don Cheadle, William H. Macy, Nicole Ari Parker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alfred Molina | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
Boogie Nights
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole…
National Theatre Live: Antigone
In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring the death of the traitor Polyneices. But Antigone, Polyneices' sister, will not obey. When Creon's authority is challenged, a gripping conflict emerges between the power of an individual and the state. Polly Findlay's electric 2012 production brings Sophocles' tragedy into the modern world as a gripping political…
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