Bringing Down the House vs National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 6/10 for Bringing Down the House). Bringing Down the House is the shorter watch at 1h 45m compared with 2h 15m. Bringing Down the House is the older of the two (2003 against 2023). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Bringing Down the House posterBringing Down the House2003 VS National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies posterNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies2023
Bringing Down the HouseNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies
Audience score★ 6.0/10★ 9.0/10
Year20032023
Length1h 45m2h 15m
GenresComedy, DramaComedy, Drama, History
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorAdam ShankmanJeremy Herrin
Main castSteve Martin, Missi Pyle, Jean Smart, Queen Latifah, Joan PlowrightSam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus Lowe

Synopsis

Bringing Down the House

Uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard time meeting the right women. He tries online dating and lucks out when he starts chatting with a fellow lawyer. The two agree to meet in the flesh, but the woman he meets — an escaped African-American convict named Charlene — is not what he expected. Peter is freaked out, but Charlene tries to convince him to take her case and prove her innocence…

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.

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