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28 Days (2000)
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28 Days (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. She chooses rehab, but is extremely resistant to taking part in any of the treatment programs they have to offer, refusing to admit that she has an alcohol addiction.
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, melancholic, intense, compassionate, sentimental, humorous, feel good, spiritual ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, drug addict, alcoholism, wedding, rehabilitation, dysfunctional family, going straight, doctors and patients, siblings relations, drug abuse, life is a bitch, women, family relations, recovery, mentor, adaptation, life philosophy, starting over, self discovery, introspection, suicide, sister sister relationship, clinic, alcohol abuse ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Keyword: withdrawal, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, humorous and semi serious films with plots about couples, addiction, hopes, life is a bitch, family problems, alcohol abuse and dysfunctional family mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like 28 Days: Clean and Sober (1988), Postcards from the Edge (1990), Stepmom (1998), Shrink (2009), Drunks (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Clean and Sober (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing anonymity. Under the ...
Style: realistic, touching, compassionate, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, introspection, alcoholism, alcoholic, drug abuse, yuppie, alcoholics anonymous, drug, tragedy, character study, recovery ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, philadelphia
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100%
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother Doris Mann, herself once a star and now a champion ...
Style: humorous, touching, melancholic, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mother daughter relationship, addiction, hollywood, drug addiction, dysfunctional family, drug abuse, rehabilitation, women, depression, female protagonist, drug, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Stepmom (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women realise they must put aside ...
Style: sentimental, sad, inspirational, touching, tear jerker ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot: divorce, terminal illness, women, autumn, cancer, step parent, friendship, custody, parents and children, remarry, adoption, stepmother stepdaughter relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 19K
Shrink (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
Style: realistic, psychological, depressing, emotional, serious ...
Plot: suicide, mental illness, therapist, psychiatrist, hollywood, character study, loneliness, life philosophy, widower, suicide attempt, haunted by the past, power relations ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Drunks (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first time in seven months, so he does - and leaves the meeting right after. As Jim wanders the night, ...
Style: independent film, realistic, talky, spiritual, serious ...
Plot: alcoholic, drug addiction, drug, addiction, alcohol abuse, drinking, recovery, self discovery, redemption, drug abuse, drug addict, heroin ...
Time: 90s
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100%
The Secret Life of Zoey (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Marcia always thought her overachieving daughter Zoey was the dream child. But then she discovers that her perfect teen has a not-so-perfect drug addiction. Marcia and her ex-husband go through plenty of denial as their daughter spirals out of ...
Style: humorous, captivating, psychological, touching, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: rehabilitation, drug abuse, drug addict, doctors and patients, drug dealing, introspection, teenage life, going straight, hopes, life is a bitch, family problems, couples ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young kid from Kansas moves to New York to work on a magazine. He gets caught up in the world of drink and drugs, and starts a steady decline. The only hope is the cousin of one of his drinking partners, can she pull him through it ?
Style: intense, serious, realistic, bleak, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug abuse, redemption, addiction, writers, nightlife, drug, life is a bitch, starting over, supportive spouse, downfall, alcohol abuse, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Down to the Bone (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her children and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balancing act begins to come crashing down.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, emotional, scary ...
Plot: addiction, infidelity, rehabilitation, cocaine, dysfunctional family, going straight, working class, drug abuse, family life, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, cliche ...
Place: new york, new york state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The End of Innocence (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: nervous breakdown, rehabilitation, drug abuse, mental institution, parents and children, family problems, doctors and patients, life is a bitch, rehabilitation center, addiction, power relations, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
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100%
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.
Style: touching, sentimental, intense, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: dysfunctional family, mental illness, american south, playwright, estrangement, women, mother daughter relationship, friendship, relationships, female protagonist, family relations, family problems ...
Time: year 2002
Place: louisiana, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Smashed (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, ...
Style: sincere, depressing, touching, realistic, indie film ...
Plot: addiction, alcoholic, rehabilitation, support group, teacher, alcohol abuse, depression, introspection, irresponsible, recovery, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Crimes of the Heart (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it ...
Style: talky, touching, humorous, dark comedy, emotional ...
Plot: sisters, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, childhood, betrayal, redemption, sister, adaptation, parenthood, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children ...
Time: 80s
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Thanks for Sharing (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A romantic comedy that brings together three disparate characters who are learning to face a challenging and often confusing world as they struggle together against a common demon: sex addiction.
Style: sexy, melancholic, touching, intense, compassionate ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: addiction, friendship, recovery, sex, dysfunctional family, life philosophy, relationships, unlikely friendships, character study, father son relationship, sex addict, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
August: Osage County (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Style: touching, melancholic, independent film, stylized, depressing ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, suicide, cancer, family secret, mother daughter relationship, incestuous relationship, family in crisis, drug addiction, pills, addiction, funeral, brother sister incest ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: oklahoma, peru, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Trees Lounge (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with ...
Style: independent film, cult classic, grim, talky, dark comedy ...
Plot: drinking, alcoholic, alcoholism, drug addiction, addiction, drunk, small town, self discovery, coming of age, alcohol abuse, older man younger woman relationship, loner ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.
Style: sentimental, romantic, intense, touching, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night
Plot: alcoholic, family values, addiction, alcohol abuse, rehabilitation, family in crisis, alcoholism, recovery, love story, tragedy, love, single father ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: san francisco, california, usa, denver colorado, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Style: ironic, talky, humorous, witty, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, thanksgiving, sisters, dysfunctional family, family relations, writers, audition, opera, midlife crisis, love, artist, hypochondriac ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Best Man Down (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A newlywed couple cancels their honeymoon and returns to the snowy Midwest to make the funeral arrangements for their best man, who died unexpectedly after their ceremony.
Style: independent film, melancholic, light, talky, romantic ...
Plot: wedding, honeymoon, adaptation, secrets, dysfunctional family, couple relations, friendship, couples, dealing with death, newlyweds, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa, minneapolis minnesota, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.1
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Sweet Nothing (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Angel celebrates the birth of his daughter by taking his first hit of crack cocaine. With the hesitant support of his wife, Monika, he joins a friend of his to deal drugs for a short time--enough time to get out of debt and buy some nice things for ...
Style: melancholic, realistic, serious, independent film, crying ...
Plot: drug addiction, drug abuse, loneliness, family problems, family relations, downfall, introspection, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, misfit, money, addiction ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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In Her Shoes (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Irresponsible party girl Maggie (Cameron Diaz) is kicked out of her father's (Ken Howard) and stepmother's (Candice Azzara) home, where she lives for free, and is taken in by her hard-working sister, Philadelphia lawyer Rose (Toni ...
Style: light, sentimental, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, family values, family relations, parents and children, couple relations, sisters, family life, girl, guilt, dyslexia, audition, charm ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, florida, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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 ⇓
30%
 6.7
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The Proposal (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.
Style: feel good, romantic, light, funny, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot: love, love story, wedding, happy ending, love and romance, relationships, initially antagonists, couples, opposites attract, unlikely couple, workplace romance, pretend relationship ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.0
 38K
Raising Helen (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned upside down when she must chose between the life she's always loved, and the new loves of ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, feel good, touching, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: adoption, happy ending, custody, orphan, couple relations, couples, parents and children, fashion, love, teenage girl, parenthood, opposites attract ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Madea's Family Reunion (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based upon Tyler Perry's acclaimed stage production, Madea's Family Reunion continues the adventures of Southern matriarch Madea. She has just been court ordered to be in charge of Nikki, a rebellious runaway, her nieces, Lisa and Vanessa, ...
Style: humorous, intense, uplifting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, drug abuse, madea, family problems, family life, addiction, couple relations, love and romance, parents and children, looking for love, siblings relations, eccentric family ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
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30%
Another Happy Day (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.
Style: semi serious, feel good, witty, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot: wedding, estate, family gatherings, eccentric family, nothing goes right, disorder, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, ex husband ex wife relationship, wedding ceremony, family reunited ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
My Name Is Bill W. (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's and how he comes to grips with his alcoholism. Along with a fellow alcoholic (James Garner) he forms a support ...
Style: touching, realistic, uplifting, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: addiction, rehabilitation, support group, recovery, family problems, friendship, human spirit, self discovery, hopes, drug abuse, coping, against the odds ...
Time: 1930s, year 1929, 1920s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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