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La La Land
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.
2016 · Directed by Damien Chazelle · 129 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 47 frames
Tagline
Here's to the fools who dream.
Plot
While stuck in Los Angeles traffic ("Another Day of Sun"), jazz pianist Sebastian "Seb" Wilder has a moment of road rage directed at aspiring actress Amelia "Mia" Dolan. After a hard day at work, Mia's next audition goes awry because the casting director takes a phone call during an emotional scene. That night, her roommates take her to a lavish party in the Hollywood Hills, promising her that it could jump-start her career ("Someone in the Crowd"). After her car is towed, she walks home in disappointment.
During a gig at a restaurant, Seb slips into jazz improvisation despite the owner's warning to only play traditional Christmas pieces. Mia hears him playing as she passes by. Moved, she enters the restaurant and observes Seb being fired for his disobedience. Mia attempts to compliment him as he storms out, but he roughly shoulders past her. Months later, she runs into Seb at a party where he plays in a 1980s pop cover band. Mia requests that Seb play "I Ran" for her. After the gig, they walk to their cars and lament wasting the night on each other ("A Lovely Night"), despite their clear chemistry.
Seb arrives at the cafe where Mia works, and she shows him around the Warner Bros. backlot while expressing her passion for movies and acting. He takes her to a jazz club, where he shares his passion for jazz and his dream to open his own jazz club. Seb invites Mia to a screening of Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and she accepts. Mia later remembers a conflicting dinner date with her boyfriend, and initially forgoes the movie to go on the original date. However, finding herself bored with the date, she rushes to the theater and finds Seb just as the film begins. When the screening is interrupted by a projector malfunction, Seb and Mia spend the rest of the evening together with a romantic visit to the Griffith Observatory, where they share a kiss.
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Crew
- Written by: Damien Chazelle
- Cinematography: Linus Sandgren
- Edited by: Tom Cross
- Music: Justin Hurwitz
- Production design: David Wasco
- Produced by: Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt, Fred Berger, Gary Gilbert
Cast
- Ryan Gosling as Sebastian
- Emma Stone as Mia
- John Legend as Keith
- Rosemarie DeWitt as Laura
- Finn Wittrock as Greg
- Callie Hernandez as Tracy
- Sonoya Mizuno as Caitlin
- Jessica Rothe as Alexis
- Tom Everett Scott as David
- Josh Pence as Josh
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Summit Entertainment, Gilbert Films, Impostor Pictures, Marc Platt Productions
- Budget: $30,000,000
- Box office: $509,183,536
- Themes: dancing, dance, jazz, musical, ambition, casting, romcom, coffee shop, jazz club, traffic jam
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