National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies vs The King of Staten Island

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 7/10 for The King of Staten Island). National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies is the shorter watch at 2h 15m compared with 2h 17m. The King of Staten Island is the older of the two (2020 against 2023). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies posterNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies2023 VS The King of Staten Island posterThe King of Staten Island2020
National Theatre Live: Best of EnemiesThe King of Staten Island
Audience score★ 9.0/10★ 7.0/10
Year20232020
Length2h 15m2h 17m
GenresComedy, Drama, HistoryComedy, Drama
CountryUnited KingdomUnited States of America
DirectorJeremy HerrinJudd Apatow
Main castSam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus LoweSteve Buscemi, Lou Wilson, Marisa Tomei, Bill Burr, Pete Davidson

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.

The King of Staten Island

Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up…

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