My Boy Jack vs National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt has the higher audience score (8.8/10 against 6.6/10 for My Boy Jack). My Boy Jack is the shorter watch at 1h 33m compared with 2h 20m. My Boy Jack is the older of the two (2007 against 2022). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

My Boy Jack posterMy Boy Jack2007 VS National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt posterNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt2022
My Boy JackNational Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
Audience score★ 6.6/10★ 8.8/10
Year20072022
Length1h 33m2h 20m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History
Country––
DirectorBrian KirkPatrick Marber
Main castRobbie Kay, Richard Dormer, Laurence Kinlan, Michael McElhatton, Daniel RadcliffeArty Froushan, Eleanor Wyld, Joshua Satine, Aidan McArdle, Wesley Holloway

Synopsis

My Boy Jack

Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. We follow his family’s story across half a century, passing through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A company of 40 actors represent each generation of the family in…

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