Jean-Philippe vs Merrily We Roll Along
Merrily We Roll Along has the higher audience score (8/10 against 5.7/10 for Jean-Philippe). Jean-Philippe is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 25m. Jean-Philippe is the older of the two (2006 against 2025). Both are comedy, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Jean-Philippe | Merrily We Roll Along | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.7/10 | ★ 8.0/10 |
| Year | 2006 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 2h 25m |
| Genres | Comedy, Music | Comedy, Music |
| Country | France | – |
| Director | Laurent Tuel | Maria Friedman |
| Main cast | Antoine Duléry, Fabrice Luchini, Denis Braccini, Johnny Hallyday, Benoît Poelvoorde | Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, Reg Rogers, Krystal Joy Brown, Lindsay Mendez |
Synopsis
Jean-Philippe
A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he’s not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice lives a deadly dull life.
Merrily We Roll Along
Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los Angeles. The story begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today. A live recording of the 2024 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical…
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