Love & Mercy vs Straight Outta Compton

Straight Outta Compton has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 7.1/10 for Love & Mercy). Love & Mercy is the shorter watch at 2h compared with 2h 27m. Both are drama, history, music movies, so they suit a similar mood. Both feature Paul Giamatti.

Love & Mercy posterLove & Mercy2015 VS Straight Outta Compton posterStraight Outta Compton2015
Love & MercyStraight Outta Compton
Audience score★ 7.1/10★ 7.8/10
Year20152015
Length2h 2h 27m
GenresDrama, History, MusicDrama, History, Music
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorBill PohladF. Gary Gray
Main castPaul Dano, Bill Camp, Graham Rogers, Paul Giamatti, John CusackNeil Brown Jr., Aldis Hodge, LaKeith Stanfield, Paul Giamatti, Orlando Brown

Synopsis

Love & Mercy

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the sway of a controlling therapist, he finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.

Straight Outta Compton

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and…

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