Hadestown: The Musical vs Leaving Las Vegas

Hadestown: The Musical has the higher audience score (8.9/10 against 7.3/10 for Leaving Las Vegas). Leaving Las Vegas is the shorter watch at 1h 51m compared with 2h 21m. Leaving Las Vegas is the older of the two (1995 against 2026). Both are drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hadestown: The Musical posterHadestown: The Musical2026 VS Leaving Las Vegas posterLeaving Las Vegas1995
Hadestown: The MusicalLeaving Las Vegas
Audience score★ 8.9/10★ 7.3/10
Year20261995
Length2h 21m1h 51m
GenresDrama, Fantasy, RomanceDrama, Romance
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorBrett SullivanMike Figgis
Main castReeve Carney, Patrick Page, Eva Noblezada, André De Shields, Francessca Daniella-BakerElisabeth Shue, Steven Weber, Nicolas Cage, Julian Sands, Valeria Golino

Synopsis

Hadestown: The Musical

The tragic love of Orpheus and Eurydice is intertwined with the complex relationship of Hades and Persephone. Eurydice, struggling with poverty, is lured to the industrial underworld of Hadestown by Hades, while Orpheus, a struggling musician, ventures down below to bring her back. (Filmed live at the Lyric Theatre, London, featuring the core five original Broadway cast members.)

Leaving Las Vegas

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

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