Movies like Dummy 2002
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Dummy (2002)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.
Style:
touching, humorous, dark comedy, sentimental, independent film, witty, art house, black comedy, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
dark humor, ventriloquist, eccentricity, unemployment, lifestyle, parents and children, looking for love, siblings relations, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, small town, shyness, fall in love, depression, dysfunctional family, dating, friend, in love, lonely, social anxiety, puppet master, wedding, stalking, family relations, accountant ...
Time:
year 2002, contemporary
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a college student with an "Annie Hall" addiction trying to make his new relationship work.
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
college, lifestyle, couples, battle of the sexes, love and romance, obsession, youth, looking for love, college life, student life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
new england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
69%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Advice columnist, Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love ...
Style:
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Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
rhode island, new jersey, new york, usa, new england
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67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as one son returns for the first time in three years.
Style:
touching, emotional, intense, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and weepy sentimentality.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
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90s
Place:
paris france, las vegas, usa, europe, new york
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A lighthearted story about a man and a woman who seem destined to be together... and the hilarious chain of accidents that seem determined to keep them apart!
Style:
clever, independent film, romantic comedy, heartfelt, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
destiny, love, writers, fall in love, dating, loneliness, passionate kiss, magic, ship, grief, flirting, siblings ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa, london, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Filipino-American high school student Ben (Dante Mercado) works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined that his son--who has won a pre-med scholarship to UCLA--will become a doctor. The ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A girl with insomnia who works in a coffee house has impossibly high standards for her love and fears she will never meet a worthy man. Then in walks a new employee and they click - until she discovers he has a girlfriend. Undaunted, she moves to ...
Style:
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Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
san francisco, los angeles, usa, oakland california, toronto ontario canada ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
mechanic, ex convict, accidental death, redemption, friendship, greed, high school, drinking, literature, obsession, prison, depression ...
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Place:
new york, new york state, long island, usa, harvard university ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
massachusetts, boston, caribbean, new england
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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10K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
47%
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Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After ten years, Sheldon returns from New York City to Paris, Georgia. His mother Evelyn, a laundress who is stubborn, ornery, opinionated, mean-spirited, insulting, and inflexible, has sent a ten-year-old boy who says he's Sheldon's son ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, intense, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
mumblecore, realistic, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new ...
Style:
humorous, melancholic, light, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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girls' night, kids, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
california
Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, family saga ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Sibling drama overshadows the impending nuptials of Danni Sposato and her longtime boyfriend, Geoff Brancato. Television actress Niki brings her manager-boyfriend, Marty, to meet the family for the first time, while spiky youngest sister Toni shows ...
Style:
humorous, touching, feel good, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
37%
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