Merrily We Roll Along vs School of Rock
Merrily We Roll Along has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7.1/10 for School of Rock). School of Rock is the shorter watch at 1h 50m compared with 2h 25m. School of Rock is the older of the two (2003 against 2025). Both are comedy, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Merrily We Roll Along
School of Rock| Merrily We Roll Along | School of Rock | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 7.1/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2003 |
| Length | 2h 25m | 1h 50m |
| Genres | Comedy, Music | Comedy, Music |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Maria Friedman | Richard Linklater |
| Main cast | Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, Reg Rogers, Krystal Joy Brown, Lindsay Mendez | Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Sarah Silverman, Mike White, Miranda Cosgrove |
Synopsis
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…
School of Rock
Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' roll. The school's hard-nosed principal is rightly suspicious of Finn's activities. But Finn's roommate remains in the dark about what he's doing.
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