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Critical Condition (1987)
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Critical Condition (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Eddie is a con artist. But this time he's framed and comes before a judge. By claiming insanity, he hopes to get off the hook. He manages end up in a hospital for a mental examination. That night, a storm breaks out over New York, and the electricity to the hospital is broken. In the ensuing chaos that follows, Eddie is taken for a doctor. Suddenly he is in charge of a whole hospital!
Style: humorous, intense, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, black comedy, realistic, sexy, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doctor, mistaken identity, hospital, african american, fish out of water, mental institution, hidden identity, nothing goes right, doctors and patients, disorder, gangster, medicine, satire, storm, helicopter, impersonation, impostor, con artists, prison, dark humor, misfit, conspiracy, mental illness, frame up, partner ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Keyword: gangsters, doctors, partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and independent film films with plots about disorder, dishonesty, nothing goes right, gangster, fish out of water, cons and scams and friends mostly in Comedy, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Critical Condition: Paramedics (1988), Another You (1991), The Hustle (2008), Back by Midnight (2004), Moving (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Paramedics (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two paramedics are transferred to the nasty part of the city where a gang is killing people to sell their organs.
Style: teen sex comedy, independent film, realistic, not serious, parody ...
Plot: looking for sex, medical, gang, gangster, conspiracy, disorder, dishonesty, doctors and patients, cons and scams, city life, urban, nudity ...
Time: 80s
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Another You (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when people begin to recognize George as the missing millionaire ...
Style: black comedy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty ...
Plot: beer, sanitarium, con man, hustler, manipulation, partner, misfit, odd couple, femme fatale, friendship, dishonesty, forgery ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa, beverly hills, california
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The Hustle (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, light, entertaining ...
Plot: gangster, partner, chases and races, crime gone awry, silly humor, friends, cons and scams, dishonesty, society, friendship, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
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Back by Midnight (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The warden of a small, rundown, minimum-security prison plots revenge against the the prison's dishonest owner by having four inmates break out and plan a department store robbery to spruce up the prison's faculties.
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, independent film
Plot: buddies, prison, odd couple, criminal heroes, prison life, confined, misfit, nothing goes right, heist, fish out of water, cons and scams, robbery ...
Place: usa
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Moving (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
Style: entertaining, funny, humorous, slapstick, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: moving, truck, dysfunctional family, kung fu, love affair, road trip, black, classic car, gangster, family relations, on the road, unemployment ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, idaho, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's ...
Style: feel good, funny, entertaining, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: baseball, millionaire, greed, rags to riches, hotel, lawyer, heir, baseball player, african american, farce, childhood, inheritance ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Richard Pryor plays three roles - a beleaguered, sex-starved farm worker named Leroy Jones; the farm worker's randy old father Rufus; and the hypocritical town preacher Rev. Lenox Thomas - and Pryor has never been so outrageously funny. The ...
Style: black comedy, not serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot: labor union, blaxploitation, african american, clergy, black, church, adultery, labor leader, migrant worker, domestic abuse, partner, manipulation ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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The Couch Trip (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The escaped delinquent John W. Burns, Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: radio, psychiatrist, mental illness, teen angst, psychology, psychopath, impersonation, mental patient, silly humor, screwball, dark humor, disorder ...
Time: 80s
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Disorderlies (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: As not-quite-orderlies who're downright Disorderlies, rap-music favorites The Fat Boys rule. Playing the freewheeling caretakers of the frail Dennison (Hollywood legend Ralph Bellamy), they stir up a comedic culture clash in Palm Beach society ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, not serious, talky, slapstick ...
Plot: hip hop, justice, hospital, unlikely criminals, switching roles, fish out of water, disorder, goofy hero, dishonesty, crime gone awry, misfit, nothing goes right ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
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Farm Girl in New York (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Sam and Matt flee their small mid-western town for New York City, where hot girls roam the streets! After months of trying to pick up ladies and failing miserably, they come up with the idea to hold a fake audition to meet chicks. Hilarity ensues ...
Style: humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
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Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, light ...
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Style: humorous, entertaining, intense, light, not serious ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
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