My Way Home vs National Theatre Live: Antigone
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.3/10 for My Way Home). My Way Home is the shorter watch at 1h 12m compared with 1h 32m. My Way Home is the older of the two (1978 against 2012). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
My Way Home
National Theatre Live: Antigone| My Way Home | National Theatre Live: Antigone | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.3/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 1978 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 12m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Bill Douglas | Polly Findlay |
| Main cast | Stephen Archibald, Joseph Blatchley, Paul Kermack, Jessie Combe, William Carroll | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker |
Synopsis
My Way Home
Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companionship releases Jamie from self-pity.
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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