Hadestown: The Musical vs Love Happens

Hadestown: The Musical has the higher audience score (8.9/10 against 5.9/10 for Love Happens). Love Happens is the shorter watch at 1h 49m compared with 2h 21m. Love Happens is the older of the two (2009 against 2026). Both are drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hadestown: The Musical posterHadestown: The Musical2026 VS Love Happens posterLove Happens2009
Hadestown: The MusicalLove Happens
Audience score★ 8.9/10★ 5.9/10
Year20262009
Length2h 21m1h 49m
GenresDrama, Fantasy, RomanceDrama, Romance
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorBrett SullivanBrandon Camp
Main castReeve Carney, Patrick Page, Eva Noblezada, André De Shields, Francessca Daniella-BakerJudy Greer, Aaron Eckhart, Frances Conroy, Anne Marie DeLuise, John Carroll Lynch

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.)

Love Happens

Dr. Burke Ryan is a successful self-help author and motivational speaker with a secret. While he helps thousands of people cope with tragedy and personal loss, he secretly is unable to overcome the death of his late wife. It's not until Burke meets a fiercely independent florist named Eloise that he is forced to face his past and overcome his demons.

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