Empire Records vs La La Land

La La Land has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 6.6/10 for Empire Records). Empire Records is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 9m. Empire Records is the older of the two (1995 against 2016). Both are comedy, drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Empire Records posterEmpire Records1995 VS La La Land posterLa La Land2016
Empire RecordsLa La Land
Audience score★ 6.6/10★ 7.9/10
Year19952016
Length1h 30m2h 9m
GenresComedy, Drama, Music, RomanceComedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country–United States of America
DirectorAllan MoyleDamien Chazelle
Main castLiv Tyler, Robin Tunney, Renée Zellweger, Anthony LaPaglia, Maxwell CaulfieldRosemarie DeWitt, Ryan Gosling, J.K. Simmons, Emma Stone, Sonoya Mizuno

Synopsis

Empire Records

The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try to stop the store from being absorbed by a large chain.

La La Land

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

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