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Blank Check (1994)
 5.3
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Blank Check (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bullied by his siblings and nagged by his parents, 11-year-old Preston is fed up with his family -- especially their frugality. But he gets his chance to teach them a lesson when a money-laundering criminal nearly bulldozes Preston with his car and gives the boy a blank check as compensation. Preston makes the check out for $1 million and goes on a spending spree he'll never forget. Maybe now, his family will take him seriously!
Style: feel good, humorous, inspirational, uplifting, epic, scenic, family comedy, slapstick comedy, realistic, not serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: child protagonist, childhood, gangster, crime gone awry, chauffeur, mistaken identity, youth, forgery, destiny, child, misfit, toys, teenager, profanity, child hero, inspiration, shopping mall, exodus, life lesson, meme, preteen, family relations, millionaire, criminal, castle ...
Time: 90s
Place: indiana
Keyword: gangsters, oldies, alias, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, realistic and not serious films with plots about disorder, youth, family relations, mischievous children, boy, childhood and child mostly in Comedy, Family and Crime genres. Some movies like Blank Check: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Baby Geniuses (1999), First Kid (1996), The Little Rascals (1994), Cop and a Half (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, ...
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, hilarious, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: holiday, christmas, children, hotel, home alone, childhood, vacation, child, young heroes, mischievous children, snow, trap ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1992
Place: new york, florida, manhattan new york city, chicago, miami
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100%
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Baby Geniuses (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Scientist hold talking, super-intelligent babies captive, but things take a turn for the worse when a mix-up occurs between a baby genius and its twin.
Style: humorous, entertaining, intense, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, teens
Plot: twins, baby, genius, mistaken identity, mad scientist, babies and infants, mischievous children, children, imaginary, prank, scientist, hypnosis ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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First Kid (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Some say that to be the leader of a country is one of the loneliest jobs in the world. But being the child of a world leader can be doubly so. Constantly surrounded by security officers, restricted in movements and having almost every waking moment ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching, political ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: white house, friendship, president, bodyguard, childhood, usa president, shopping mall, fish out of water, boxing, mischievous children, kids and family, spy ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Little Rascals (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and the other characters made famous in the Our Gang shorts of the 1920s and 1930s are brought back to life in this nostalgic children's comedy. When Alfalfa starts to question his devotion to the club's ...
Style: feel good, light, sentimental, sweet, not serious ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, teens, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: childhood, children, child, bully, dog, mischievous children, rivalry, parents and children, precocious child, youth, friendship, rich kid ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cop and a Half (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is forced to take his new partner seriously as they race the clock to bring the ...
Style: detective, humorous, satirical, semi serious, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot: children, gangster, murder, police investigation, boy, partners against crime, bully, witnessing a crime, police, friendship, odd couple, fighting crime ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
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See Spot Run (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A drug sniffing agent canine is a target for an assassin boss so the FBI calls Witness Protection to send him somewhere else. Meanwhile a single Mom puts her 6 year old boy James in the care of her irresponsible, mailman, neighbor, Gordon, when the ...
Style: humorous, feel good, melancholic, entertaining, clever ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: dog, pets, goofy hero, friendship, crime gone awry, fish out of water, nothing goes right, hidden identity, save the day, mischievous children, danger, animal ...
Place: alaska, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 649K
Home Alone (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, chick flick ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, mischievous children, home alone, youth, children, home invasion, kids and family, child protagonist, winter, child, when the parents are away ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2016, 80s
Place: chicago, illinois, usa, france, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: 8-year-old Finn who is terrified to learn his family is relocating from sunny California to Maine in the scariest house he has ever seen! Convinced that his new house is haunted, Finn sets up a series of elaborate traps to catch the “ghost” in ...
Style: realistic, not serious, feel good, humorous, light ...
Audience: family friendly, girls' night, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, youth, heist, family in danger, privacy invasion, family relations, siblings relations, when the parents are away, danger, mischievous children, nothing goes right, crime gone awry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Getting Even with Dad (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Ray, an ex-con and widower, is planning a coin heist with two accomplices to help him to buy his own bakery. However, he doesn't expect his son Timmy, who was living with Ray's sister, to show up at the house right in the middle of ...
Style: humorous, satirical, melancholic, semi serious, realistic
Audience: kids, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: heist, parents and children, family life, disorder, dishonesty, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, going straight, single parent, childhood, father son relationship, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Man of the House (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ben Archer is not happy. His mother, Sandy, has just met a man, and it looks like things are pretty serious. Driven by a fear of abandonment, Ben tries anything and everything to ruin the "love bubble" which surrounds his mom. However, ...
Style: touching, funny, melancholic, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: childhood, parents and children, mischievous children, single parent, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, kids and family, camping, opposites attract, male bonding, camp ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Dennis the Menace (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, not serious, sweet ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, date night, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: mischievous children, children, prank, problem child, when the parents are away, childhood, kids and family, happy ending, neighbor, boy, nothing goes right, troublemaker ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.6
 127K
Home Alone 3 (1997)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top-secret microchip. Now Alex must fend off the spies as they try break into his house to get it back.
Style: feel good, humorous, slapstick, christmas classics, hilarious ...
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids, girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, prank, home alone, winter, kids and family, children, little boy, crime gone awry, snow, young heroes, bravery ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: usa, chicago, hong kong, illinois, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: School is out and Greg is ready for the days of summer, when all his plans go wrong. What on earth is he going to do all summer?
Style: humorous, entertaining, touching, feel good, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: childhood, child, mischievous children, kids and family, best friend, friendship between boys, parents and children, lifestyle, coming of age, youth, summer vacation, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Problem Child 2 (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Junior and his father, Ben, move from Cold River to Mortville. Junior becomes threatened by Ben's desire to date again and find a new mother for Junior, and sabotages each of his dates.
Style: slapstick, humorous, dark comedy, epic, disgusting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: child, childhood, children, school, prank, mischievous children, fall in love, single parent, parents and children, creepy child, child hero, coming of age ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Daddy Day Camp (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Seeking to offer his son the satisfying summer camp experience that eluded him as a child, the operator of a neighborhood daycare center opens his own camp, only to face financial hardship and stiff competition from a rival camp.
Style: humorous, melancholic, not serious, slapstick, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: summer camp, competition, mischievous children, father son relationship, children, childhood, happy ending, colonel, family relations, buddies, escapades, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.4
 33K
Problem Child (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Ben Healy (John Ritter) and his social climbing wife Flo adopt Junior a fun-loving seven year old. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares. But is ...
Style: funny, feel good, hilarious, light, slapstick ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: adoption, mischievous children, chase, spoiled brat, troublemaker, children, child hero, child, friends, dark humor, kidnapping, childhood ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Charlie and Dan have been best friends and business partners for thirty years; their Manhattan public relations firm is on the verge of a huge business deal with a Japanese company. With two weeks to sew up the contract, Dan gets a surprise: a woman ...
Style: humorous, feel good, melancholic, hilarious, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, pre-teens
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Time: 2000s, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Third-grader Judy Moody sets out to have the most thrilling summer of her life.
Style: feel good, realistic, not serious, humorous, 3d animation ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: summer vacation, youth, family relations, mischievous children, competition, young heroes, amusement park, escapades, disorder, friendship, female protagonist, girl ...
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42%
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Slappy and the Stinkers (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Five 2nd-grade kids who don't follow strict rules by their school principal Brinway are dubbed "Stinkers" by him. On the class visit to an aquarium the Stinkers decide that a sea lion called Slappy doesn't feel too good there, ...
Style: epic, family comedy, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing, teen drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two young brothers talk their strict father Lloyd Clauswell into allowing them to babysit themselves for the first time while their parents attend a corporate barbecue...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: youth, twins, family relations, police detective, child in peril, silly humor, young heroes, danger, nothing goes right, mischievous children, heroes, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Uptight New York City executive, Michael Cromwell, pursues his soon-to-be ex-wife to South America and returns home with the son he never knew he had -- a boy raised in a tribal village in Brazil. Armed with only his blowgun, the 13-year-old ...
Style: light, funny, feel good, entertaining, epic ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot: fish out of water, jungle, culture clash, childhood, teenage boy, eccentric family, parents and children, mischievous children, disorder, nothing goes right, youth, 13 year old ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: new york, venezuela, usa, latin america, brazil ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After being left at home by himself for the holidays, 10-year-old Max Mercer must work to defend his home from a married couple who tries to steal back a valuable heirloom.
Style: funny, semi serious, entertaining, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Treehouse Hostage (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Timmy Taylor and his two friends, Stevie and Buddy capture escaped convict Carl Banks (Jim Varney) and hold him hostage in their treehouse over the weekend so that Timmy can use Carl as his current event project at school on Monday. The boys then ...
Style: epic, independent film, exciting, semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Dog Gone (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A courageous boy battles a gang of bumbling thieves to rescue a dog carrying a fortune in stolen diamonds.
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot: dog, caper, rescue, escapades, crime gone awry, rivalry, disorder, danger, odd couple, nothing goes right, heist, stash ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Ernest Goes to Jail (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Bumbling Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, where a crooked lawyer notices a resemblance with crime boss Mr. Nash, and arranges a switch. Nash assumes Ernest's job as a bank employee, while Ernest undergoes Nash's sentence to the ...
Style: light, humorous, surreal, funny, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: prison, dysfunctional family, electric chair, escapades, cons and scams, false accusation, mistaken identity, prison life, heist, danger, misfit, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Monkey Trouble (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Dodger, a criminal monkey, belongs to a crooked street performer but escapes his life of crime only to end up in the arms of Eva, an innocent little girl whose mother has no idea that her daughter is harboring a fugitive.
Style: humorous, independent film, semi serious, touching, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
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Time: 90s, year 1994
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
A Kid Called Danger (1999)
Genre: Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young boy dreams of someday becoming a detective just like his father.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, partner, adventurer, heroes, partners against crime, criminal heroes, chases and races, good versus evil, gang, law enforcement, amateur detective, young heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.5
 34K
Oscar (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his ...
Style: talky, witty, humorous, feel good, not serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: gangster, mistaken identity, accountant, disorder, fish out of water, parents and children, couples, going straight, dishonesty, goofy hero, cons and scams, farce ...
Time: 90s, 1930s, year 1991
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, sweet, melancholic, semi serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Mary, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, humorous, funny, teen ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, family friendly, teens ...
Plot: large family, children, family relations, teenager, parenthood, dysfunctional family, chaos, parents and children, eccentric family, nothing goes right, siblings relations, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: illinois, chicago, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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