La La Land

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La La Land

PG-13

2016

2h 8m

Musical

Romance

Comedy

Drama

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Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) are drawn together by their common desire to do what they love. But as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

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Critics Consensus

La La Land breathes new life into a bygone genre with thrillingly assured direction, powerful performances, and an irresistible excess of heart.

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Christy Lemire

What the Flick?!

10/10/2018

It is joyful. It leaps off the screen.

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Kambole Campbell

One Room With A View

08/25/2018

5/5

A gorgeously photographed, unashamedly nostalgic, bittersweet marriage of the modern and the traditional, proving Chazelle's fantastic eye for musical sequences.

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Kristen Lopez

Culturess

11/20/2017

With its candy-coated color palette and Emma Stone's earth-shattering performance, there's plenty of love found within La La Land.

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JD Duran

InSession Film

08/08/2024

It’s a perfect blend of homage to classic Hollywood musicals, while injecting modern filmmaking and emotion. It’s a beautiful story that evokes ideas that we can all relate with...

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Brendan Cassidy

InSession Film

06/18/2024

Chazelle takes advantage of that vulnerability for the film’s surprising second half, and that’s when La La Land gets real.

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Angelos Koutsourakis

PopMatters

02/21/2024

The melancholy in this film's musical sequences serves as commentary on cinema's bygone capacity to produce a unique kind of magic.

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K Mizz

11/29/2024

Perfection. One of the best movies ever made. Musical genius. Dancing. Whimsy. Romance. Heartbreak. Storyline that mirrors life, yet keeps dreams alive. Can watch it over and over again!

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Gary

05/20/2023

One thing about this movie is telling us is to Follow our Dreams 💫✊🏿🎞🎬❤

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G

12/31/2021

An American Classic Love Story

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Katie D

03/15/2021

Definitely not what I was expecting! I love Emma and Ryan together but the storylines were a bit drawn out and disappointingly difficult to follow. Some of the musical numbers/dream sequences felt out of place and over the top, sending the audience out of La La Land. I did really like the jazz coming into a new generation and John Legend's music! This movie was really good but not not great.

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Judah S.

@Judah3963 4d

One of the most beautiful homage’s to old filmmaking. Had me hooked the whole time and despite not being an action movie it had me on the edge of my seat for the whole last act.

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Niklas L

Dec 15

At the heart of the movie is the pursuit of artistry and passion. The protagonists are both enduring economic struggles to have a shot at their dream, be it playing jazz piano or acting. Ultimately, the movie centers on the very clash of their preference to be well off and, at the same time, spend their time doing something that they value themselves, even if it is not valued by others as much. These clashing preferences become most pronounced when Mia struggles financially after attempting to write and act in a one person theatre play, and Seb takes on a job that pays well but is not very close to his ideals. Their respect for each other is fundamentally linked to their willingness to fight for what they think is valuable, so they break up after Mia gives up her acting career, and Seb is willing to cut corners in his career as well. Ultimately, both achieve economic prosperity whilst fulfilling their dreams; and both wished they stayed together.

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Synopsis

Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) are drawn together by their common desire to do what they love. But as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Director: Damien Chazelle
Producer: Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt, Gary Gilbert
Screenwriter: Damien Chazelle
Distributor: Lionsgate Films
Production Co: Summit Entertainment, Gilbert Films, Marc Platt Productions
Rating: PG-13 (Some Language)
Genre: Musical, Romance, Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 25, 2016, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 11, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $151.1M
Runtime: 2h 8m
Sound Mix: DTS, Dolby Digital, Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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