Million Dollar Baby vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 8/10 for Million Dollar Baby). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 2h 12m. Million Dollar Baby is the older of the two (2004 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Million Dollar Baby posterMillion Dollar Baby2004 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
Million Dollar BabyNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 8.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year20042012
Length2h 12m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorClint EastwoodPolly Findlay
Main castBenito Martinez, Anthony Mackie, Margo Martindale, Jay Baruchel, Mike ColterAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

Synopsis

Million Dollar Baby

Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.

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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