Love for Beginners vs Misfit

Misfit has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7.2/10 for Love for Beginners). Misfit is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 1m. Love for Beginners is the older of the two (2012 against 2021). Both are comedy, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Love for Beginners posterLove for Beginners2012 VS Misfit posterMisfit2021
Love for BeginnersMisfit
Audience score★ 7.2/10★ 8.0/10
Year20122021
Length2h 1m1h 30m
GenresComedy, RomanceComedy, Romance
Country––
DirectorTakeshi FurusawaOrlando Herrera
Main castKento Yamazaki, Tori Matsuzaka, Sho Aoyagi, Yumi Aso, Fumino KimuraJavier Luna, Alicia Jaziz Zapién, Julián Cerati, Gimena Gómez, Raysa Ortiz

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…

Misfit

Julia, a teenager from Latin America, has lived in the U.S. most of her life. She is popular, a successful Youtuber and wants to become prom queen. Everything changes abruptly when her family has to return to Ecuador. What will she have to face? Getting used to a new culture and a catholic high school will not be easy. The "gringa" becomes the target of "La Reinas", three popular bullies who rule the school. Julia is now a misfit who will have…

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