Girls vs National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 4.2/10 for Girls). Girls is the shorter watch at 1h 35m compared with 2h 15m. Girls is the older of the two (1980 against 2023). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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GirlsNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies
Audience score★ 4.2/10★ 9.0/10
Year19802023
Length1h 35m2h 15m
GenresComedy, DramaComedy, Drama, History
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorJust JaeckinJeremy Herrin
Main castAnne Parillaud, Etienne Chicot, Christophe Bourseiller, Gérard Loussine, Philippe KlébertSam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus Lowe

Synopsis

Girls

Three girls: Susanne, Annie and Catherine, just have finished high school and meet every night to have a good time in discos and bars with frequently changing boyfriends. Susanne’s younger sister Betty often joins them and copies their behavior, believes everything they say. So she soon ends up with with projectionist George – although she doesn’t take the pill yet.

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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