Love for Beginners vs Love's Second Act

Love's Second Act has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 7.2/10 for Love for Beginners). Love's Second Act is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 1m. Love for Beginners is the older of the two (2012 against 2024). Both are comedy, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Love for Beginners posterLove for Beginners2012 VS Love's Second Act posterLove's Second Act2024
Love for BeginnersLove's Second Act
Audience score★ 7.2/10★ 8.2/10
Year20122024
Length2h 1m1h 30m
GenresComedy, RomanceComedy, Romance, TV Movie
Country–United States of America
DirectorTakeshi FurusawaSam Irvin
Main castKento Yamazaki, Tori Matsuzaka, Sho Aoyagi, Yumi Aso, Fumino KimuraTilky Jones, J.P. Manoux, George Wendt, Ann Hagemann, Meredith VanCuyk

Synopsis

Love for Beginners

Hibino Tsubaki is a young teenage girl with a talent for styling other people's hair. Yet, Tsubaki suffers from low self-esteem and isn't very comfortable styling her own hair. She also has a tendency to dress old-fashioned. She's teased at high school because of this. One day, popular male student Tsubaki Kyota targets Tsubaki for teasing. Tsubaki Kyota holds sway over the entire classroom and is quite a playboy. Inexplicably they fall in…

Love's Second Act

Jamie is a filmmaker who needs inspiration to finish her screenplay after a studio buys the pitch. She finds it in ex-boyfriend, Nick, who still works at the small town movie theater where they both first fell in love.

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