National Theatre Live: Antigone vs People Like Us
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.8/10 for People Like Us). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 54m. Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Antigone
People Like Us| National Theatre Live: Antigone | People Like Us | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.8/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 32m | 1h 54m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Polly Findlay | Alex Kurtzman |
| Main cast | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker | Mark Duplass, Philip Baker Hall, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sara Mornell, Elizabeth Banks |
Synopsis
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…
People Like Us
After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son.
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