La La Land vs Man About Town
La La Land has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 4.5/10 for Man About Town). Man About Town is the shorter watch at 1h 25m compared with 2h 9m. Man About Town is the older of the two (1939 against 2016). Both are comedy, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| La La Land | Man About Town | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.9/10 | ★ 4.5/10 |
| Year | 2016 | 1939 |
| Length | 2h 9m | 1h 25m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | Comedy, Music |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Damien Chazelle | Mark Sandrich |
| Main cast | Rosemarie DeWitt, Ryan Gosling, J.K. Simmons, Emma Stone, Sonoya Mizuno | Monty Woolley, Cecil Kellaway, Norman Ainsley, Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour |
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.
Man About Town
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
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