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La La Land (2016)

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A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles.

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Mia
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Famous Actress
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Linda (Coffee Shop Manager)
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Coffee Spiller
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Tracy
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Storyline

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, 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. Written by Eirini

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Here's to the fools who dream.


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Rated PG-13 for some language | See all certifications »

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8 December 2016 (Israel)  »

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$30,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$4,102,091 (USA) (16 December 2016)

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$51,656,587 (USA) (6 January 2017)
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Trivia

The film was shot in eight weeks over the course of summer 2015. See more »

Goofs

The opening scenes include Christmas decorations in the coffee shop, Mia's apartment, and the jazz club, and "Jingle Bells" on the soundtrack, but Mia's phone shows the date as January 25. See more »

Quotes

Sebastian: You should come.
Mia: To Boise?
Sebastian: You can knock it off your bucket list.
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Connections

Referenced in Saturday Night Live: Emma Stone/Shawn Mendes (2016) See more »

Soundtracks

Si Ridesta in Ciel L'aurora
(from 'La Traviata')
Written by Giuseppe Verdi
Performed by Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Courtesy of Naxos
By arrangement with Source/Q
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Love letter to Hollywood .. and a Heck of a Film
1 January 2017 | by (North America) – See all my reviews

Writer/Director Damien Chazelle, who already had a nice career going for him, explodes into the Bigtime with this delightful, mesmerizing, and completely unexpected ode to Tinseltown.

The opening sequence does not do the rest of the film justice. It is as if the cast from FAME grew up, had children of their own, and then those children hijacked the Santa Monica freeway to do a 10 minute flash-mob dance sequence.

From that point on, the film is hypnotic.

We segue to a love story as pure as anything since the great dramas of the 1940s. If the film had been in B&W, you would almost have expected to see Bette Davis in a 3-hankie tear jerker.

Except for the musical interludes, of course, which are pitch perfect and totally wonderful.

Gosling is surprising as a leading man expected to do song and dance, but he delivers. Stone, who was supposed to be "the next big thing" after Easy A (2010), steals the film and possibly the hearts of the audience as well. The awards should flow like water, and she will deserve every one.

As I said, deep in the DNA this is an ode to Hollywood. The film industry has always had issues with endings -- back in the day they would film several different endings per picture -- and then decide at the last minute which to use. Here Chazelle pays homage to that by giving us an alternate ending, along with the real ending, along with a closing sequence designed to remind everyone that nothing in Hollywood is real, but everything can be fun.

Destined to be a classic. Recommended.


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