National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies vs Spike of Bensonhurst
National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 5.4/10 for Spike of Bensonhurst). Spike of Bensonhurst is the shorter watch at 1h 40m compared with 2h 15m. Spike of Bensonhurst is the older of the two (1988 against 2023). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies
Spike of Bensonhurst| National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies | Spike of Bensonhurst | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 9.0/10 | ★ 5.4/10 |
| Year | 2023 | 1988 |
| Length | 2h 15m | 1h 40m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, History | Comedy, Drama |
| Country | United Kingdom | – |
| Director | Jeremy Herrin | Paul Morrissey |
| Main cast | Sam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus Lowe | Maria Pitillo, Rick Aviles, Frank Adonis, Sasha Mitchell, Talisa Soto |
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.
Spike of Bensonhurst
Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn.
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