My Girl vs National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 7.4/10 for My Girl). My Girl is the shorter watch at 1h 43m compared with 2h 15m. My Girl is the older of the two (1991 against 2023). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

My Girl posterMy Girl1991 VS National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies posterNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies2023
My GirlNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies
Audience score★ 7.4/10★ 9.0/10
Year19912023
Length1h 43m2h 15m
GenresComedy, DramaComedy, Drama, History
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorHoward ZieffJeremy Herrin
Main castAnna Chlumsky, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin, Griffin DunneSam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus Lowe

Synopsis

My Girl

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...

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.

Where to watch

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