National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies vs Theory of Achievement
National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 6.3/10 for Theory of Achievement). Theory of Achievement is the shorter watch at 18m compared with 2h 15m. Theory of Achievement is the older of the two (1991 against 2023). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies
Theory of Achievement| National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies | Theory of Achievement | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 9.0/10 | ★ 6.3/10 |
| Year | 2023 | 1991 |
| Length | 2h 15m | 18m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, History | Comedy, Drama |
| Country | United Kingdom | – |
| Director | Jeremy Herrin | Hal Hartley |
| Main cast | Sam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus Lowe | Bill Sage, Nick Gomez, Elina Löwensohn, Bob Gosse, Jessica Sager |
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.
Theory of Achievement
This short film was packaged on video with Hartley's featurette "Surviving Desire." It affectionately examines the lives of a group of "young, middle-class, white, college-educated, unskilled, broke, drunk" Brooklynites who would love to make something of their lives -- assuming they can pay the rent first.
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