Love for Beginners vs The Love Hypothesis

The Love Hypothesis has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.2/10 for Love for Beginners). The Love Hypothesis is the shorter watch at 1h 52m compared with 2h 1m. Love for Beginners is the older of the two (2012 against 2026). Both are comedy, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Love for Beginners posterLove for Beginners2012 VS The Love Hypothesis posterThe Love Hypothesis2026
Love for BeginnersThe Love Hypothesis
Audience score★ 7.2/10★ 8.1/10
Year20122026
Length2h 1m1h 52m
GenresComedy, RomanceComedy, Romance
Country–United States of America
DirectorTakeshi FurusawaClaire Scanlon
Main castKento Yamazaki, Tori Matsuzaka, Sho Aoyagi, Yumi Aso, Fumino KimuraLili Reinhart, Tom Bateman, Rachel Marsh, Jaboukie Young-White, Nicholas Duvernay

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…

The Love Hypothesis

Olive Smith, a biology PhD candidate, and Dr. Adam Carlsen, a hotshot professor and well-known tyrant, enter into a fake relationship, seeing each of their carefully calculated theories on love get thrown into chaos.

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