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The Thing About My Folks (2005)
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The Thing About My Folks (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ben's dad Sam shows up one night with a note from Ben's mother (Sam's wife of 46 years), that she has left. While Ben's wife and his three sisters try to find her, Ben takes Sam on a day trip to see a farmhouse that's for sale. The day trip turns into a road trip while dad and son explore their past, their relationship, and why Sam's wife might have left him. The road trip includes fishing, drinking, playing pool, sleeping under the stars, and frank discussion. Anger simmers close at hand, as do love and hope. Where Sam's wife is - and why she left - leads to the movie's resolution.
Style: talky, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: on the road, family relations, father son relationship, parents and children, self discovery, love and romance, husband wife relationship, escapades, food, senior citizen, aging, family life, profanity, couples, couple relations, parents separation, gambling, fishing, death, cancer, billiards, mother, hospital, baby, wife ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, new york
Keyword: jewish

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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 family relations, parents and children, couples, love and romance, couple relations, bittersweet and unfulfillment mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Thing About My Folks: The Open Road (2009), Dad (1989), Garbo Talks (1984), Finding Joy (2013), Empty Nest (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Open Road (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Minor leaguer Carlton Garret takes an unexpected road trip to track down his estranged father, legendary baseball player Kyle Garret when Carlton’s mother becomes sick. Once reunited, Carlton struggles to deal with the series of misadventures ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: father son relationship, baseball, road trip, family relations, fiancee, father son reunion, parents and children, on the road, estranged son, dysfunctional family, nothing goes right, estrangement ...
Time: year 2009
Place: columbus ohio, usa, houston texas, ohio
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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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Garbo Talks (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A New York accountant (Ron Silver) sets out to grant his dying mother's last wish--to meet film star Greta Garbo. Sidney Lumet's bittersweet 1984 comedy also stars Anne Bancroft, Catherine Hicks, Carrie Fisher, Harvey Fierstein, Howard Da ...
Style: sad, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
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Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
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Finding Joy (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 21st century
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Empty Nest (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be ...
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: aging, couples, couple relations, midlife crisis, family relations, family problems, elderly, parents and children, love and romance, leaving home, college, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real estate-related issues when they plan to move away.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, comedy drama ...
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Time: 21st century
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Motherhood (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Motherhood is a comedy written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann, and stars Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot on location in New York’s West Village, focuses on the dilemmas of motherhood, such as marriage, work, and self, ...
Style: realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: best friend, friendship, family life, friends, family relations, couples, disorder, lifestyle, couple relations, parents and children, mother, blog ...
Time: year 2009
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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
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32%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
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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 ⇓
30%
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Duration: 104 min.
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Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, touching ...
Plot: self discovery, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, family life, terminal illness, bittersweet, husband wife relationship, one night stand, death ...
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Duration: 105 min.
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Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, emotional ...
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Time: year 1970
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: semi serious, emotional, touching, humorous, realistic ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 115 min.
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Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
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Kotch (1971)
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
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Nobody's Fool (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- ...
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, talky, atmospheric ...
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The Guilt Trip (2012)
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Heartlands (2002)
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Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, light ...
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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
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Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
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25%
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Cleopatra (2003)
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Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
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Style: feel good, touching, realistic, emotional, melancholic ...
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25%
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Passenger Side (2009)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Cemetery Club (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
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Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
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