Last Flag Flying vs National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 6.8/10 for Last Flag Flying). Last Flag Flying is the shorter watch at 2h 5m compared with 2h 15m. Last Flag Flying is the older of the two (2017 against 2023). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Last Flag Flying posterLast Flag Flying2017 VS National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies posterNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies2023
Last Flag FlyingNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies
Audience score★ 6.8/10★ 9.0/10
Year20172023
Length2h 5m2h 15m
GenresComedy, DramaComedy, Drama, History
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorRichard LinklaterJeremy Herrin
Main castBryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Monahan, Steve Carell, Yul VazquezSam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus Lowe

Synopsis

Last Flag Flying

Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry, Sal and Richard reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Marine killed in Iraq. Forgoing the burial, the trio take the casket on a bittersweet trip up the coast to New Hampshire – along the way reminiscing and coming to terms with the shared memories of a war that continues to shape their lives.

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.

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