National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies vs Patients
National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 7.4/10 for Patients). Patients is the shorter watch at 1h 50m compared with 2h 15m. Patients is the older of the two (2017 against 2023). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies
Patients| National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies | Patients | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 9.0/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2023 | 2017 |
| Length | 2h 15m | 1h 50m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, History | Comedy, Drama |
| Country | United Kingdom | – |
| Director | Jeremy Herrin | Grand Corps Malade, Mehdi Idir |
| Main cast | Sam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus Lowe | Dominique Blanc, Yannick Renier, Alban Ivanov, Florence Muller, Rabah Nait Oufella |
Synopsis
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.
Patients
After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in a rehabilitation center. He meets with other handicapped persons (tetraplegics, paraplegics, traumatized crania), all victims of accidents, as well as a handicapped since his early childhood. They go through impotence, despair and resignation, with their daily struggle to learn how to move a finger or to hold a fork. Some of them slowly find a…
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