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Anywhere But Here (1999)
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Anywhere But Here (1999)
Original name: Anywhere but Here
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In this adaptation of the Mona Simpson novel, single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When Adele decides to pack up and move the two of them from the Midwest to Beverly Hills, Calif., to pursue her dreams of Hollywood success, Ann grows frustrated with her mother's irresponsible and impulsive ways.
Style: touching, sentimental, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, light, road movie ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, coming of age, women, mother, teen angst, love, family drama, teenager, single mother, small town, bittersweet, friendship, daughter, strong female lead, nature, dream, motherhood, mother and daughter, road trip, girl power, female bonding, family relations, hollywood, audition, teenage girl ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, wisconsin
Keyword: egyptian, chinese

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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 family relations, coming of age, youth, teenage girl, parents and children, friendship and teenager mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Anywhere But Here: White Oleander (2002), The Way Way Back (2013), Tumbleweeds (1999), Stepmom (1998), Gilmore Girls (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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White Oleander (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
Style: intense, touching, disturbing, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, coming of age, bad mother, loneliness, dysfunctional family, women's prison, teenage life, murder, mother daughter estrangement, mental illness, teenager, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, nova scotia, mexico
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The Way Way Back (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers.
Style: touching, realistic, teen, independent film, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: summer, teenager, vacation, friendship, coming of age, loneliness, shyness, youth, dysfunctional family, boy, teenage girl, teenage boy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: boston, usa
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100%
 6.7
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Tumbleweeds (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom takes up with a controlling trucker and fights with her ...
Style: touching, road movie, realistic, feel good, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: mother daughter relationship, asthma, friendship, loneliness, on the road, self discovery, human nature, starting over, single mother, family problems, single parent, love and romance ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: california, arizona, usa, santa fe new mexico, south carolina ...
⇓ 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%
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Gilmore Girls (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience: teens, family outing, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: small town, teenager, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend, friends, female protagonist, small town life, teenage life, looking for love, single mother, first love, everyday life ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: yale university, connecticut, usa, new england
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80%
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For Keeps? (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Darcy, editor at her highschool paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their last months of school and already have found places in good colleges. Recently they started to sleep with each other and, surprise, surprise, Darcy gets pregnant. ...
Style: sentimental, melancholic, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
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Time: 80s
Place: wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Housekeeping (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Style: sad, realistic, atmospheric, thought provoking, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town, coming of age, eccentric woman, suicide, orphan, friendship, self discovery, eccentricity, psychopath, feminist, alienation, adoption ...
Time: year 1987, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
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100%
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With Honors (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, inspirational, road movie ...
Audience: kids
Plot: college, homeless, friendship, youth, college student, father son relationship, law school, justice, happy ending, graduation, self discovery, college life ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, usa, boston, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that ...
Style: sentimental, touching, light, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, marriage, women, friendship, grandmother, advice, adultery, stereotypes, interracial romance, marriage proposal, family life, self discovery ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, northern california, north carolina, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Men, Women & Children (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.
Style: realistic, sexy, bad ending, dramatic, stylized ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage life, internet, youth, high school, teenage girl, sex scene, infidelity, sexual content, coming of age, parenthood, depression, video game ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Gas, Food Lodging (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could ...
Style: independent film, realistic, touching, retro, cult classic ...
Plot: coming of age, waitress, small town, single mother, mother daughter relationship, love, women, friendship, adolescence, desert, bittersweet, teenager ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new mexico, usa
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Dumplin' (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A girl with the nickname "Dumplin'" enters a beauty pageant in order to win over the boy she likes and stick it to the other girls at school.
Style: feel good, inspirational, light, uplifting, indie film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: beauty pageant, teenage girl, fat girl, protest, mother daughter relationship, strong female character, female protagonist, beauty queen, bravery, grief, feminist, small town ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Where the Heart Is (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside in Sequoyah, Okla., and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. In short order, ...
Style: feel good, touching, sincere, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
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Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.
Style: melancholic, emotional, sentimental, touching, sad ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, drug addiction, single mother, small town, women, writers, grownups, teenage girl, pregnant teenager, parenthood ...
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100%
Real Women Have Curves (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Freshly graduated from high school, Ana receives a full scholarship to Columbia University. Her very traditional, old-world parents feel that now is the time for Ana to help provide for the family, not the time for college.
Style: touching, captivating, sentimental, clever, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, overweight, youth, first sex, mother daughter relationship, culture clash, women, dressmaker, physical appearance, working class, unsupportive parent, society ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, new york
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100%
Girl in Progress (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, couple relations, coming of age, married man, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, couples, youth, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
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33%
Ginny & Georgia (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Angsty and awkward fifteen year old Ginny Miller often feels more mature than her thirty year old mother, the irresistible and dynamic Georgia Miller. After years on the run, Georgia desperately wants to put down roots in picturesque New England and ...
Style: funny, humorous, captivating, light, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: daughter, teenager, mother daughter relationship, family relations, teen romance, drastic change of life, changing lives, coming of age, new life, mother and daughter, neighbor, woman ...
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Dirty Girl (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It's 1987 and Danielle, the high school 'Dirty Girl', is running away. With her is chubby, gay Clarke, a bag of flour called Joan and a Walkman full of glorious '80s tunes.
Style: road movie, touching, teen, independent film, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, high school, friendship, road trip, friends, female protagonist, on the road, honest, happy ending, sexpot, family problems ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: usa, oklahoma, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The Banger Sisters (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the late '60s, the self-proclaimed belles of the rock 'n' roll ball, rocked the worlds of every music legend whose pants they could take off -- and they have the pictures to prove it. But it's been more than two decades since ...
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, light ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: year 2002
Place: los angeles, phoenix arizona, usa
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28%
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Now and Then (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, ...
Style: feel good, emotional, touching, teen, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, small town, women, female friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, childhood, youth, teenager, teenage life, children, friends ...
Time: 90s, 70s, year 1991, year 1970, year 1995 ...
Place: usa, indiana
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28%
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Mystic Pizza (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.
Style: light, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, pizza, teenager, friendship, food, women, commitment, small town life, teenage life, siblings relations, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, connecticut
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28%
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, disturbing, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 70s, year 1998, year 1976, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, homecoming, misfit, teenage girl, fame, teenager, puppy love, celebrity, worship, teenage rebellion, family relations, small town life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Juno (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.
Style: funny, touching, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, adoption, teenager, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, high school, love and romance, female protagonist, teenage girl, strong female character, friendship ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
As Cool as I Am (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, teenage life, family relations, family problems, youth, crumbling marriage, parents and children, teenage angst, coming of age, teen romance, suburbs, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.9
 26K
Georgia Rule (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Georgia Rule follows a rebellious, uncontrollable teenager who is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her grandmother. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding ...
Style: teen, melancholic, stylized, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, small town, dysfunctional family, family problems, teenager, parents and children, rebellious daughter, confession, justice, generation gap, family relations, uncontrollable ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: idaho, usa, san francisco, salt lake city utah
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50%
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, adoption, coming of age, parents and children, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, hopes, on the road, obsessive quest, self discovery, escape ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.6
 10K
How to Deal (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Mandy Moore stars as Halley, a young hip high school student who's convinced true love doesn't exist based on the crazy relationships around her. Her mother is divorcing her father who is dating a younger woman Halley can't stand. Her ...
Style: romantic, sweet, semi serious, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, teenage love, teenage pregnancy, wedding, true love, coming of age, pregnancy, bullying, love and romance, youth, family problems ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around ...
Style: touching, teen, feel good, romantic comedy, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: school, high school, coming of age, teenage life, youth, teenage love, couples, love and romance, parents and children, high school life, teenager, puberty ...
Time: 2000s
Place: england, brighton, europe, new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.7
 7K
Angus (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Angus is a large, pathetic 14 year old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of one Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sentimental, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: friendship, coming of age, bullying, teenager, high school, prank, public humiliation, teenage life, misfit, teenage love, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time: y2k, 90s
Place: minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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