Hair of the Bear vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

Hair of the Bear and National Theatre Live: Antigone are tied on audience score (10/10). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Hair of the BearNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year20262012
Length1h 32m1h 32m
GenresDrama, ThrillerDrama
CountryCanadaUnited Kingdom
DirectorAlexandre Trudeau, James McLellanPolly Findlay
Main castMalia Baker, Robert Naylor, Roy Dupuis, Catherine Bérubé, Jonathan LawrenceAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Hair of the Bear

Refusing to go to school, anxious 16-year-old Tori is driven by her mother to her grandfather's rustic cabin in Eastern Manitoba on the remote American-Canadian border. As Tori struggles to adapt to the woodsman ways of her French Canadian grandfather, she ultimately must embrace the outdoors if she is to survive the deadly game of cat and mouse she is thrust into.

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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