Movies like The Benchwarmers

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The Benchwarmers (2006)
 5.5
 55K
The Benchwarmers (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads.
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, not serious, funny, hilarious, exciting, realistic, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: baseball, youth, mentor, ambition, contests and competitions, coming of age, bullying, group of friends, clumsiness, vengeance, millionaire, pizza, adult humor, beer, nerd, love, kids and family, stoner, paperboy, video store, nfl, social anxiety, heroes, friends, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 80s, 21st century, contemporary
Keyword: sport, partners, buddy movie

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Most similar movies to The Benchwarmers

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, not serious and funny films with plots about contests and competitions, ambition, rivalry, underdog, friends, silly humor and sport team mostly in Comedy, Sport and Family genres. Some movies like The Benchwarmers: Hot Rod (2007), The Waterboy (1998), Grind (2003), Ladybugs (1992), Here Comes the Boom (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a ...
Style: humorous, funny, hilarious, slapstick, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: underdog, against the odds, dumb, coach, tournament, competition, cheerleader, pirate, redemption, rivalry, contests and competitions, gym ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 93K
Hot Rod (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: For Rod Kimball, performing stunts is a way of life, even though he is rather accident-prone. Poor Rod cannot even get any respect from his stepfather, Frank, who beats him up in weekly sparring matches. When Frank falls ill, Rod devises his most ...
Style: funny, feel good, witty, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: small town, friendship, misfit, ambition, fund raising, obsessive quest, team, young man, contests and competitions, goofy hero, determination, parents and children ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: washington state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.1
 177K
The Waterboy (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.
Style: parody, funny, humorous, hilarious, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, manly, girls' night
Plot: football, bullying, college, social outcast, underdog, american football, farce, rags to riches, mentor, ridicule, dumb, foul language ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: louisiana, usa, new orleans, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 13K
Grind (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Four skaters follow their idol on his summer tour in an attempt to get noticed, get sponsored, and become stars themselves.
Style: humorous, entertaining, funny, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: skateboard, road trip, friendship, underdog, high school, friendship between men, lifestyle, rivalry, ambition, partner, contests and competitions, college ...
Time: year 2003, y2k, 2000s
Place: santa monica california, tucson arizona, london, england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Lifelong friends and national idols Ricky Bobby and Cal Naughton Jr. have earned their NASCAR stripes with their uncanny knack of finishing races in the first and second slots, respectively, and slinging catchphrases like "Shake and bake!" ...
Style: funny, humorous, slapstick, exciting, parody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: car race, racing, farce, sport competition, stupidity, auto racing, betrayal, satire, competition, comeback, championship, teamwork ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 10K
Ladybugs (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: To climb the corporate ladder to success, a guy agrees to coach the company's all girl soccer team with the help of his secret weapon: his fiancee's son.
Style: humorous, feel good, sentimental, uplifting, offbeat ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: cross dressing, soccer, football, teenager, childhood, youth, farce, milf, women's football (soccer), american football, bike, underdog ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Here Comes the Boom (2012)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A high school biology teacher moonlights as a mixed-martial arts fighter in an effort to raise money to save the school's music program.
Style: inspirational, funny, entertaining, humorous, exciting ...
Audience: girls' night, kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: underdog, teacher, martial arts, contests and competitions, mixed martial arts, against the odds, dedicated educator, teachers and students, boxing, lifestyle change, ambition, coach ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.3
 45K
Balls of Fury (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Randy Daytona was a child ping pong prodigy who lost his chance at Olympic gold when his father is murdered by the mysterious Feng over a gambling debt. 15yrs later he's down on his luck and scraping a living doing seedy back room shows in ...
Style: parody, humorous, funny, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: rivalry, redemption, olympics, fbi, ping pong, prodigy, athlete and trainer, ambition, talent, contests and competitions, hopes, underdog ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: german democratic republic, latin america, central america, seoul, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.3
 12K
The Comebacks (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A comedy that spoofs the inspirational sports movies, The Comebacks tells the story of an out-of-luck coach, Lambeau Fields, who takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this ...
Style: parody, humorous, spoof, melancholic, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, american football, football, coach, rivalry, college, social relations, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, against the odds, athlete's life, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.8
 55K
The Love Guru (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Born in America and raised in an Indian ashram, Pitka returns to his native land to seek his fortune as a spiritualist and self-help expert. His skills are put to the test when he must get a brokenhearted hockey player's marriage back on track ...
Style: funny, humorous, parody, slapstick, not serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: hockey, ice hockey, mentor, adaptation, sport team, couple relations, rivalry, contests and competitions, ambition, breakup, indians, bar fight ...
Time: year 2008
Place: india, canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 27K
Down Periscope (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bumbling Navy lieutenant Tom Dodge has been given one last chance to clean up his record. But Admiral Graham, his nemesis, assigns Dodge to the Stingray, a submarine that can barely keep afloat. To add insult to injury, the Stingray is to be the ...
Style: parody, humorous, not serious, witty, light ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: submarine, military, u.s. navy, navy, military life, underwater, rivalry, nothing goes right, against the odds, goofy hero, stupidity, boat ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Division III: Football's Finest (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This ensemble comedy follows the Pullham University Bluecocks, a small liberal arts college with a Division III football program (the lowest division in the NCAA). When the head coach unexpectedly dies, the future of the flailing football program is ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: american football, cheerleader, football, fight, sport team, power relations, contests and competitions, social relations, athlete and trainer, against the odds, championship, sportscaster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Sandlot 2 (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A decade has passed in the small town where the original Sandlot gang banded together during the summer of ’62 to play baseball and battle the Beast. Now comes the sequel, a campy romp back to the dugout where nine new kids descend on the diamond ...
Style: feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot: sport team, youth, baseball, friendship, vengeance, partner, friends, teenage life, ambition, coming of age, buddies, rivalry ...
Time: year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.9
 91K
Kingpin (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After bowler Roy Munson swindles the wrong crowd and is left with a hook for a hand, he settles into impoverished obscurity. That is, until he uncovers the next big thing: an Amish kid named Ishmael. So, the corrupt and the hopelessly naïve hit the ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, feel good, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bowling, road trip, on the road, older woman younger man, culture clash, mentor, fish out of water, success, against the odds, championship, prodigy, contests and competitions ...
Time: 90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1969, year 1979 ...
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, nevada, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Winning Season (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A comedy centered on a has-been coach who is given a shot at redemption when he's asked to run his local high school's girls basketball team
Style: humorous, sincere, inspirational, light, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: basketball, coach, high school, contests and competitions, ex athlete, youth, misfit, sport team, teenage life, ambition, hopes, friends ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.3
 480
Bleacher Bums (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Adapted from a 1979 stage play written by Chicago's Organic Theater Company, BLEACHER BUMS details the exploits of a group of baseball fans as they sit in the bleachers of Lakeview Park watching a game between the hometown Bruins take on the ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: baseball, friends, gambling, lifestyle, against the odds, follow your dream, rivalry, buddies, athlete's life, couple relations, ambition, hopes ...
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.8
 86K
Semi-Pro (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jackie Moon is the owner, promoter, coach, and star player of the Flint Michigan Tropics of the American Basketball Association (ABA). In 1976 before the ABA collapses, the National Basketball Association (NBA) plans to merge with the best teams of ...
Style: funny, inspirational, entertaining, stylized, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: basketball, championship, sport team, coach, mentor, competition, basketball team, justice, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.8
 39K
The Ringer (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Pressured by a greedy uncle (Brian Cox) and a pile of debt, lovable loser Steve Barker (Knoxville) resorts to an unthinkable, contemptible, just-crazy-enough-to-work scheme. He pretends to be mentally challenged to rig the upcoming Special Olympics ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, hilarious, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mentally challenged, rivalry, running, friendship, love and romance, lie, gambling, pretense, track and field, disability, down syndrome, mental disorder ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 6.1
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Fired Up! (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 2 Guys. 300 Girls. You Do the Math. The two most popular guys in high school decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader camp. For the girls and for the glory.
Style: sex comedy, teen, light, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: cheerleading, cheerleader, high school, fall in love, teenager, football, college, youth, love and romance, bare breasts, erotica, rivalry ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
School for Scoundrels (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young guy short on luck, enrolls in a class to build confidence to help win over the girl of his dreams, which becomes complicated when his teacher has the same agenda.
Style: funny, humorous, absurd, hilarious, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: loser, farce, rivalry, teaching the ways of the world, love and romance, teachers and students, cons and scams, low self esteem, high school, gang, traffic policeman, teacher ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.0
 22K
Home Team (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two years after a Super Bowl win when NFL head coach Sean Payton is suspended, he goes back to his hometown and finds himself reconnecting with his 12-year-old son by coaching his Pop Warner football team.
Style: satirical, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, funny ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: american football, american football player, sport team, hometown, coach, father son relationship, team, football, life, youth, athlete and trainer, soccer coach ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, year 2012
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.5
 11K
The Big Green (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a depressed Texas town, British foreign exchange teacher Anna attempts to inject some life into her hopeless kids by introducing them to soccer. They're terrible at first, but Anna and her football-hero assistant whip them into shape. As ...
Style: inspirational, melancholic, light, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, teen drama
Plot: soccer, school, underdog, childhood, youth, athlete and trainer, football, high school life, against the odds, small town life, teachers and students, follow your dream ...
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.0
 1K
Break Point (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jimmy Price is a reckless man-child on the last leg of his career as a doubles tennis player. When his latest partner drops him, he realizes he's officially burned all of his bridges on the pro circuit. He decides to make one last ditch effort ...
Style: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: tennis, rivalry, athlete's life, contests and competitions, odd couple, ambition, family relations, youth, coming of age, underdog, verbal byplay, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Hot Flashes (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, challenge the current high school girls’ state champs to raise money for breast cancer prevention. Sparks fly as the women go to comic extremes to ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, funny ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: basketball, breast cancer, rivalry, contests and competitions, against the odds, friendship, cheerleader, strong female presence, sport team, underdog, ambition, menopause ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austin texas, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.9
 93K
Nacho Libre (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Nacho Libre is loosely based on the story of Fray Tormenta ("Friar Storm"), aka Rev. Sergio Gutierrez Benitez, a real-life Mexican Catholic priest who had a 23-year career as a masked luchador. He competed in order to support the orphanage ...
Style: funny, humorous, ironic, light, not serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: wrestling, follow your dream, nun, catholic, eccentricity, monastery, monk, fight scenes, contests and competitions, hopes, goofy hero, ambition ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Eddie's Million Dollar Cook Off (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Eddie Ogden is his pa's pride and joy as well as the Groundhogs team's only asset as baseball talent. Then Eddie discovers a taste and talent for cuisine. Although his brothers Andy and Alex, and Pa as well as classmates enjoy his dishes, ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, scenic
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: baseball, youth, ambition, cooking, family relations, rivalry, buddies, contests and competitions, teenage life, parents and children, father son relationship, food ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 3.9
 493
Shred (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: SHRED is a motion picture that tells the story of two washed up pro snowboarders from the 90s named Max (played by Dave England) and Eddie (played by Renee Renee) who attempt to cash in on the fantastic growth of the sport by starting their own ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: buddies, skiing, rivalry, friends, ambition, lifestyle, against the odds, uninhibited rivalry, underdog, hopes, athlete's life, human spirit ...
Time: 90s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 2.9
 3K
Hole in One (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eric, a highly-gifted golfer but radically-undisciplined college undergrad, finds his world drastically altered after losing a golf bet to a pair of sadistic plastic surgeons. Eric's bad-boy attitude lifestyle comes to a screeching halt as he ...
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, feel good, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: golf, college, contests and competitions, rivalry, buddies, ambition, youth, bet, golf club, plastic surgeon, life turned upside down, high school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Like Mike 2: Streetball (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Another young boy with 'hoop dreams' finds an old pair of Michael Jordan's sneakers and can suddenly play ball like the greatest player in the world.
Style: realistic, humorous, black comedy, semi serious
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: basketball, true love, friendship, hopes, rivalry, athlete's life, follow your dream, underdog, human spirit, athlete and trainer, buddies, ambition ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.1
 2K
Curling King (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Once a great curling star, Truls Paulsen is diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder and banned from competition. But when he learns that his old friend and coach Gordon is on his deathbed, Truls, heavily-medicated decides to compete again, in ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, cult classic, offbeat
Plot: goofy hero, ambition, partner, silly humor, contests and competitions, athlete's life, disorder, buddies, obsession, ex athlete, rivalry, money raising ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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