La La Land vs Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
La La Land has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 6.7/10 for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom). Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 2h 9m. La La Land is the older of the two (2016 against 2020). Both are drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
La La Land
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom| La La Land | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.9/10 | ★ 6.7/10 |
| Year | 2016 | 2020 |
| Length | 2h 9m | 1h 34m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | Drama, Music |
| Country | United States of America | United States of America |
| Director | Damien Chazelle | George C. Wolfe |
| Main cast | Rosemarie DeWitt, Ryan Gosling, J.K. Simmons, Emma Stone, Sonoya Mizuno | Colman Domingo, Glynn Turman, Viola Davis, Taylour Paige, Michael Potts |
Synopsis
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.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
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