California Solo vs Downbeat
Downbeat has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.7/10 for California Solo). Downbeat is the shorter watch at 1h 31m compared with 1h 33m. California Solo is the older of the two (2012 against 2026). Both are drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
California Solo
Downbeat| California Solo | Downbeat | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.7/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2026 |
| Length | 1h 33m | 1h 31m |
| Genres | Drama, Music | Drama, Music |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Marshall Lewy | Danny Madden |
| Main cast | Robert Carlyle, Danny Masterson, Kathleen Wilhoite, Patrick Gallagher, Brad Greenquist | Christie Lynn Smith, Gary Galone, Will Madden, Skyler Bible, Dustin Hahn |
Synopsis
California Solo
Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself into a stupor every night and retires to his shabby apartment to record his podcast, recounting the tragic deaths of great musicians. After a particularly heavy night of drowning his sorrows at a local…
Downbeat
Fleeing mistakes in Atlanta, Mauro crashes on his sister’s couch in Boston. He takes to bucket drumming on the streets for a way out, but can’t stop screwing things up and drawing everyone else into his own feral shortcomings.
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