National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies vs We Can Do That

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 7.2/10 for We Can Do That). We Can Do That is the shorter watch at 1h 51m compared with 2h 15m. We Can Do That is the older of the two (2008 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 We Can Do That posterWe Can Do That2008
National Theatre Live: Best of EnemiesWe Can Do That
Audience score★ 9.0/10★ 7.2/10
Year20232008
Length2h 15m1h 51m
GenresComedy, Drama, HistoryComedy, Drama
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorJeremy HerrinGiulio Manfredonia
Main castSam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus LoweClaudio Bisio, Rosa Pianeta, Carlo Giuseppe Gabardini, Anita Caprioli, Natascia Macchniz

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.

We Can Do That

The film follows Nello, the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law many former patients were left with few resources and little hope of reintegrating into society. With the intention of actually improving the lives of his pupils, rather than just sedating them, Nello encourages them to expand their…

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