Final Recipe vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.9/10 for Final Recipe). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 37m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2013). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Final Recipe posterFinal Recipe2013 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
Final RecipeNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 6.9/10★ 10.0/10
Year20132012
Length1h 37m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorGina KimPolly Findlay
Main castBobby Lee, Aden Young, Michelle Yeoh, Lori Tan Chinn, Sahajak BoonthanakitAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Final Recipe

Hao's Singaporean restaurant is in danger of going out of business. Hao's grandson, Mark, secretly travels to Shanghai to attend a cooking competition despite his grandfather's wishes for him to become an engineer. Mark takes the place of a contestant who did not show up and must now impress the host, Julia Lee, and her chef husband, David Chen. Chen, who is originally from Singapore and misses his family, eventually learns he is Mark's father.

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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