Get on Up vs Love & Mercy

Love & Mercy has the higher audience score (7.1/10 against 6.8/10 for Get on Up). Love & Mercy is the shorter watch at 2h compared with 2h 19m. Get on Up is the older of the two (2014 against 2015). Both are drama, history, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Get on Up posterGet on Up2014 VS Love & Mercy posterLove & Mercy2015
Get on UpLove & Mercy
Audience score★ 6.8/10★ 7.1/10
Year20142015
Length2h 19m2h
GenresDrama, History, MusicDrama, History, Music
Country––
DirectorTate TaylorBill Pohlad
Main castNelsan Ellis, Lennie James, Octavia Spencer, Dan Aykroyd, Viola DavisPaul Dano, Bill Camp, Graham Rogers, Paul Giamatti, John Cusack

Synopsis

Get on Up

A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

Love & Mercy

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the sway of a controlling therapist, he finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.

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