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Duane Hopwood (2005)
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Duane Hopwood (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it's too late.
Style: emotional, humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, clever, touching, gloomy, semi serious, independent film
Plot: family relations, redemption, addiction, parents and children, couples, family problems, down on your luck, breakup, hopes, unfulfillment, divorce, husband wife relationship, lawyer, friendship, drunkenness, fired from the job, love, save the day, alcohol abuse, alcoholic, love and romance, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, society, single parent ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: new jersey, atlantic city new jersey

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about couples, family relations, parents and children, family problems, love and romance, couple relations and unfulfillment mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Duane Hopwood: Only When I Laugh (1981), Happy Hour (2003), All You Need (2001), Brooklyn Lobster (2005), Marine Life (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Only When I Laugh (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, clever, talky ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, drug, alcoholic, slice of life, women, best friend, socialite, drunkenness, parent child relationship, alcoholism, bittersweet, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: new york
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 6.2
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Happy Hour (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Set in present day New York City, "Happy Hour" is a literate and often funny story of love and how to receive it. Tulley, a once-promising literary star now biding his time as an advertising copy editor, moves from cynicism to acceptance ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, touching, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, love affair, redemption, lifestyle, going straight, once promising, family problems, estrangement, couples, family in crisis, terminal illness, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 6.4
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All You Need (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Beth's life was going backwards. Her husband suddenly walks out on her, she has an alcoholic mother, an ambivalent father and so she decides to begin making a change by going back to school in order to take charge of her life.
Style: realistic, semi serious, emotional, touching, talky
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, drunkenness, thanksgiving, social decay, lifestyle, family problems, parents and children, family life, family gatherings, human nature, couple relations, society ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Brooklyn Lobster (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Giorgio's Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state
Style: emotional, humorous, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: family business, family relations, save the day, family problems, restaurant, working class, estrangement, parents and children, bank, siblings relations, family in crisis, society ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Marine Life (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, love affair, family life, couples, family problems, single parent, love and romance, youth, child as adult, midlife crisis, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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Every Other Week (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Pontus is divorced and has custody of his children every other week while living life as a bachelor the rest of the time. His older brother, Jens, is married since 20 years and has three children. When Jens' marriage collapses, he moves in with ...
Style: semi serious, touching, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: brother brother relationship, divorce, ex husband ex wife relationship, love affair, family life, platonic, family problems, breakup, infidelity, couples, single parent, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
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76%
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Mind the Gap (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, couples, city life, introspection, waking up, unfulfillment, single parent, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, hopes, homecoming, couples, family problems, parents and children, family relations, couple relations, estrangement, eccentric family, family life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Cleopatra (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: fall in love, self discovery, friendship, human nature, on the road, introspection, looking for love, best friend, family business, parents and children, hopes, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Family Law (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A man in his thirties does not want to be like his father, but that seems to be unavoidable.
Style: semi serious, captivating, light, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, introspection, parents and children, family problems, hopes, youth, lawyer, father son relationship, teacher, husband wife relationship, teenager, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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The Four Seasons (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Style: talky, realistic, touching, sentimental, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: divorce, friendship, bittersweet, vacation, sadness, midlife crisis, couple relations, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, introspection, human nature ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Everything Must Go (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.
Style: touching, realistic, feel good, humorous, talky ...
Plot: friendship, addiction, salesman, unemployment, alcohol abuse, bittersweet, loneliness, tragedy, character study, self discovery, starting over, marital problem ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa, texas, phoenix arizona
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56%
Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Stuart Smalley, the Saturday Night Live character, comes to the big screen. Stuart, the disciple of the 12 step program, is challenged by lifes injustices.
Style: humorous, satirical, talky, not serious, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, farce, dark humor, addiction, satire, nothing goes right, self discovery, disorder, family problems, family life, lifestyle, couple relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: minnesota, chicago
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The Daytrippers (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great, until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo and Jo's boyfriend all pile into a station ...
Style: independent film, hilarious, talky, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, marriage, adultery, family relations, infidelity, love, thanksgiving, night, bickering, drunkenness, chance meeting, on the road ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Winter Passing (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that ...
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, addiction, writers, eccentricity, character study, complex characters, family relations, homecoming, unlikely friendships, family problems, couple relations, unlikely couple ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, michigan, manhattan new york city
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Bob Funk (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After he's fired from his job -- by his mother, no less -- Bob Funk agrees to quit drinking, see a therapist, and eventually report to a new boss, who might just be the woman of his dreams.
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 102 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 95 min.
Story: A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
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Audience: date night
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Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
Style: sentimental, psychological, humorous, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place: new york, usa
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Daddy and Them (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When an uncle is charged with murder, the event reverberates throughout a poor Arkansas family, including a struggling musician and his wife, her mother, her sister, and his father.
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, independent film, humorous ...
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Time: year 2001
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Trees Lounge (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
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The Perfect Family (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Kathleen Turner stars as suburban mother and devout Catholic Eileen Cleary, who has always kept up appearances. When she runs for the Catholic Woman of the Year title at her local parish, her final test is introducing her family to the board for the ...
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous
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Place: usa
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Raising Genius (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The film is about a boy who locks himself in the bathroom to work out math equations on the shower wall. The boy has obsessive compulsive parents. The boy is obsessed with a cheerleader named Lacy, who lives across the street from.
Style: semi serious, psychological, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: genius, mathematics, dysfunctional family, family relations, prodigy, couples, family problems, youth, couple relations, lifestyle, society, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
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Dad (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A busy executive (Ted Danson) learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him (Jack Lemmon) than ever before. Estranged from his own son (Ethan ...
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, uplifting, inspirational ...
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Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: los angeles
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41%
Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman - The Play (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Before it was a movie, it was a theatrical phenomenon! When Helen learns that her husband is leaving her for her best friend, the women in her family are ready with advice. Her devout mother preaches strength and forgiveness, while her parolee ...
Style: semi serious, emotional, humorous, independent film, realistic ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty, touching ...
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Time: 70s, year 2006, 20th century
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Rick (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, clever, suspenseful ...
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Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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40%
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Big Bad Love (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Vietnam veteran Leon Barlow is struggling as a writer, and his personal life isn't much better. His unsympathetic ex-wife Marilyn doesn't approve of his visits with his two children, and he has problems with alcohol. Yet even when Leon ...
Style: surreal, serious, rough, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: breakup, terminal illness, family problems, unsupportive spouse, tragic hero, family in crisis, estrangement, couples, writer's life, hopes, life is a bitch, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Isn't It Delicious (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Joan Weldon discovers she is dying of lung cancer, she sets out to reconcile her dysfunctional relationships with her three children, her husband, and along the way, her former best friend. The family's destructive ways are offset by messy ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, touching ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Bruno (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
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Style: realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, friendship, family life, parents and children, family problems, prodigy, society, hopes, eccentric family, friends ...
Time: 90s
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