Hadestown: The Musical vs My Week with Marilyn

Hadestown: The Musical has the higher audience score (8.9/10 against 6.7/10 for My Week with Marilyn). My Week with Marilyn is the shorter watch at 1h 39m compared with 2h 21m. My Week with Marilyn is the older of the two (2011 against 2026). Both are drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hadestown: The Musical posterHadestown: The Musical2026 VS My Week with Marilyn posterMy Week with Marilyn2011
Hadestown: The MusicalMy Week with Marilyn
Audience score★ 8.9/10★ 6.7/10
Year20262011
Length2h 21m1h 39m
GenresDrama, Fantasy, RomanceDrama, Romance
CountryUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom
DirectorBrett SullivanSimon Curtis
Main castReeve Carney, Patrick Page, Eva Noblezada, André De Shields, Francessca Daniella-BakerJulia Ormond, Jim Carter, Eddie Redmayne, Dominic Cooper, Zoë Wanamaker

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.)

My Week with Marilyn

London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who dreams on having a career in movie business, manages to get a job on the set as third assistant director.

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