Given vs La La Land

Given has the higher audience score (8.3/10 against 7.9/10 for La La Land). Given is the shorter watch at 1h compared with 2h 9m. La La Land is the older of the two (2016 against 2020). Both are drama, music, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Given posterGiven2020 VS La La Land posterLa La Land2016
GivenLa La Land
Audience score★ 8.3/10★ 7.9/10
Year20202016
Length1h 2h 9m
GenresAnimation, Drama, Music, RomanceComedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country––
DirectorHikaru YamaguchiDamien Chazelle
Main castTakuya Eguchi, Yuma Uchida, Masatomo Nakazawa, Shogo Yano, Shintaro AsanumaRosemarie DeWitt, Ryan Gosling, J.K. Simmons, Emma Stone, Sonoya Mizuno

Synopsis

Given

Haruki secretly had feelings for Akihiko for years, but Akihiko was still in a relationship with his roommate, the violinist Ugetsu Murata. Haruki, Akihiko, and Ugetsu's love clashes and starts to move forward.

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.

Where to watch

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