A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
It centers on a year in the doomed romance between a wannabe actress named Mia (Emma Stone), demoted to waiting tables in the Warner Brothers coffee shop (a gimmick stolen from Doris Day in It’s a Great Feeling) and an aspiring jazz pianist named Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), miserably relegated to playing Christmas carols in a Hollywood watering hole run by a mean-spirited boss who is no music lover (J.
Rex Reed, observer.com, rex-reed•The New York Observer•Dec 15, 2016