Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 2h 9m. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is the older of the two (2011 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close posterExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close2011 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
Extremely Loud & Incredibly CloseNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 7.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year20112012
Length2h 9m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorStephen DaldryPolly Findlay
Main castJeffrey Wright, Tom Hanks, John Goodman, Sandra Bullock, Max von SydowAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.

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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