Love's Second Act vs Shanghai Blues
Love's Second Act has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 7/10 for Shanghai Blues). Love's Second Act is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 43m. Shanghai Blues is the older of the two (1984 against 2024). Both are comedy, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Love's Second Act
Shanghai Blues| Love's Second Act | Shanghai Blues | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.2/10 | ★ 7.0/10 |
| Year | 2024 | 1984 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 43m |
| Genres | Comedy, Romance, TV Movie | Comedy, Romance |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Sam Irvin | Tsui Hark |
| Main cast | Tilky Jones, J.P. Manoux, George Wendt, Ann Hagemann, Meredith VanCuyk | Henry Fong Ping, Shing Fui-On, Kenny Bee, Woo Fung, Sylvia Chang |
Synopsis
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.
Shanghai Blues
In 1937 Shanghai, a soldier and a young woman have an awkward meet-cute in darkness under a bridge as they seek refuge during a bomb raid. Ten years later, the soldier, now a burgeoning songwriter and tuba-player in a marching band, is back in town desperately searching for his would-be soulmate. As fate would have it they end up living in the same building unbeknownst to each other. Through a series of mishaps, he mistakes her new ingénue…
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