Lovely Complex vs The Love Hypothesis

The Love Hypothesis has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 6.5/10 for Lovely Complex). Lovely Complex is the shorter watch at 1h 39m compared with 1h 52m. Lovely Complex is the older of the two (2006 against 2026). Both are comedy, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Lovely ComplexThe Love Hypothesis
Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 8.1/10
Year20062026
Length1h 39m1h 52m
GenresComedy, RomanceComedy, Romance
CountryJapanUnited States of America
DirectorKitaji IshikawaClaire Scanlon
Main castEma Fujisawa, Teppei Koike, Nami Tamaki, Risa Kudo, Susumu TerajimaLili Reinhart, Tom Bateman, Rachel Marsh, Jaboukie Young-White, Nicholas Duvernay

Synopsis

Lovely Complex

Koizumi Risa an unusually tall high school girl, meets the "vertically challenged" young man Otani Atsushi. They find common ground in height anxieties and interests. Risa, a tall Japanese girl, gets rejected by a boy because she is taller than him. Otani, a short Japanese guy, gets rejected by a girl because he is shorter than her. Obviously these two would make the oddest of couples and would never be a good match for each other right?

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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