While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.
- Won 6 Oscars
- 241 wins & 307 nominations total
Amiee Conn
- Famous Actress
- (as Amiée Conn)
Mike Fallin
- Free way Krump Dancer 'Hat Kid'
- (credit only)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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- TriviaAccording to composer Justin Hurwitz, all the piano performances featured in the film were first recorded by pianist Randy Kerber during pre-production. Ryan Gosling then spent two hours a day, six days a week in piano lessons learning the music by heart. By the time filming had begun, Gosling was able to play all the piano sequences seen in the film without the use of a hand double or CGI.
- GoofsThe day Sebastian visits Mia at her coffee shop, Mia entered work wearing black pants with a yellow bag. When Mia leaves work, she is wearing a blue skirt with a red bag. When they show a long shot of Sebastian and Mia walking on the lot, she is seen to be wearing black pants. Then in the next shot, she is wearing the skirt again.
- Crazy creditsJust before the closing credits roll, a title card comes on screen saying "The End" Made In Hollywood U.S.A, very much like the movies produced during Hollywood's Golden Age.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Roeper's Reviews: Richard Roeper's Top 16 Films for 2016 (2016)
- Soundtracks1812 Overture
Written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performed by Kálmán Berkes and Tokyo Musashino Academia Musicae Symphony Orchestra (as the Tokyo Musashino Academia Musicae Chorus and Symphony Orchestra)
Courtesy of Hungaroton Classic
By arrangement with Source/Q and Naxos
Featured review
A nostalgic and joyful musical feast of a film.
A nostalgic, joyful, and oh-so realistic portrayal of chasing your dreams and living in the "la la land" that is Los Angeles, "La La Land" is a different kind of masterpiece, as it pays tribute to the musical films of the 40s and 50s, the Astaire and Rogers, MGM kind of musicals, while also bringing something new to the genre, specifically the modern and original elements.
Damien Chazelle was already a promising newcomer when he made 2014's "Whiplash", also an Oscar-winning film. "La La Land", however, sets the record straight that this young writer-director is a true talent and possibly one of the greatest of our time. One of the most important elements within Chazelle's script and directing is, in one word, passion. Pure passion for cinema is what it takes to make a great film, and Chazelle sure does know that.
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone sparkle as the film's leading stars on screen, like Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn once did in the golden age. In the film, Stone and Gosling's characters share the same goal: to make their dreams in both acting and jazz, respectively, come true. What comes out when you put these two acting talents together in a film is pure enjoyment and an onscreen chemistry that seems impossible to break.
Overall, "La La Land" is one hell of a film to watch, as it may go down in cinematic history as one of the finest films made.
Damien Chazelle was already a promising newcomer when he made 2014's "Whiplash", also an Oscar-winning film. "La La Land", however, sets the record straight that this young writer-director is a true talent and possibly one of the greatest of our time. One of the most important elements within Chazelle's script and directing is, in one word, passion. Pure passion for cinema is what it takes to make a great film, and Chazelle sure does know that.
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone sparkle as the film's leading stars on screen, like Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn once did in the golden age. In the film, Stone and Gosling's characters share the same goal: to make their dreams in both acting and jazz, respectively, come true. What comes out when you put these two acting talents together in a film is pure enjoyment and an onscreen chemistry that seems impossible to break.
Overall, "La La Land" is one hell of a film to watch, as it may go down in cinematic history as one of the finest films made.
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- Also known as
- LaLa Land
- Filming locations
- Griffith Observatory - 2800 E. Observatory Rd, Los Angeles, California, USA(love dance in the planetarium)
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- Budget
- $30,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $151,101,803
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $881,104
- Dec 11, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $471,991,358
- Runtime2 hours 8 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.55 : 1
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