La La Land vs The English Teacher

La La Land has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 5.6/10 for The English Teacher). The English Teacher is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 2h 9m. The English Teacher is the older of the two (2013 against 2016). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

La La Land posterLa La Land2016 VS The English Teacher posterThe English Teacher2013
La La LandThe English Teacher
Audience score★ 7.9/10★ 5.6/10
Year20162013
Length2h 9m1h 32m
GenresComedy, Drama, Music, RomanceComedy, Drama, Romance
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorDamien ChazelleCraig Zisk
Main castRosemarie DeWitt, Ryan Gosling, J.K. Simmons, Emma Stone, Sonoya MizunoJessica Hecht, Norbert Leo Butz, Greg Kinnear, Fiona Shaw, Nathan Lane

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.

The English Teacher

Small-town Pennsylvania schoolteacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject. Then a former star pupil reenters her life after failing as a playwright in New York City. Seeing in his script the inspiration that she has always longed to instill in her students, this dyed-in-the-wool romantic enlists the help of long-suffering drama teacher Carl to mount the work as the high school’s next and…

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