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Play the Game (2009)
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When ladies' man David Mitchell (Paul Campbell) gives his lonely grandfather, Joe (Andy Griffith), some pointers on dating, Joe becomes a big hit with the women in his retirement community. But David strikes out with his own tricks when he tries to woo a girl named Julie (Marla Sokoloff). Now it's up to Joe to teach his grandson how to win at love without playing games. Doris Roberts and Liz Sheridan co-star in this award-winning comedy.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, romantic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
wooing, retirement home, elderly, family relations, couples, looking for love, resentment, aging, lifestyle, battle of the sexes, friendship between men, girl, cupid, grandfather grandson relationship, womanizer, love and romance, singleness, eligible bachelor, golden years, teaching the ways of the world, retirement home life, power relations, chess, friendship, dating ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and feel good films with plots about love and romance, couples, looking for love, lifestyle, singleness, wooing and fall in love mostly in Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Play the Game: A Bride for Christmas (2012), BachelorMan (2003), Boynton Beach Club (2005), I Hate Valentine's Day (2009), Love Hurts (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Bride-to-be Jessie Patterson calls off her third engagement - during the ceremony! She swears off serious relationships, until she meets and is pursued by Aiden MacTiernan. Aiden, on the other hand, has bet his friends he is marriage material, and ...
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feel good, humorous, sentimental, light, sincere ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In these times of enlightened sexual politics, Ted Davis is a scoring machine. He's got the rap, the charm and his little black book weighs several pounds. Ted has become a guru to his buddies who can only aspire in awe to his greatness. This ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
womanizer, unlikely couple, lifestyle, battle of the sexes, fall in love, love and romance, couples, looking for love, wooing, true love, superhero, thirtysomething life ...
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42%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A handful of men and women of a certain age pick up the pieces of their lives and look for new love after the loss of their mates in this comedy drama from writer-director Susan Seidelman.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, realistic, humorous
Audience:
date night
Plot:
elderly, friendship, looking for love, fall in love, love and romance, single parent, family problems, midlife crisis, couples, parents and children, family relations, lifestyle ...
Place:
florida, usa
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41%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateur in town.
Style:
romantic, semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, love and romance, valentine's day, love affair, battle of the sexes, lifestyle, unfulfillment, couple relations, couples, thirtysomething life, looking for love, love story ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After his wife leaves him, middle-aged Ben Bingham slips into a funk and refuses to change out of his pajamas. Justin, Ben's 17-year-old son, has the cure for what ails his depressed dad: he gives Ben a makeover and pushes him out into the ...
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semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
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date night
Plot:
family relations, fall in love, teenage love, parents and children, lifestyle, doctor, looking for love, friendship, only child, self discovery, renewed love, dentist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shanté Smith has moved to Atlanta where she's the Love Doctor, helping women get their men to the altar. Tiffany calls her after she catches her boyfriend, Byron, in a clinch with his boss, Carla, just after he wins a competition similar to ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
family relations, looking for love, contests and competitions, battle of the sexes, couples, fall in love, guru, love and romance, workplace, lifestyle, singleness, father son relationship ...
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39%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jane Grant has just received an invitation to her younger cousin's wedding, and it's engraved with two of the most dreaded words a perpetually available sing can encounter: "plus guest." Come wedding day, Jane had better deliver. ...
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semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
love and romance, looking for love, couples, wooing, best friends, lifestyle, singleness, wedding, uninhibited rivalry, thirtysomething life, high school, boat ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Three beautiful women (Electra, Dash, and Fox) who have had their share of men trouble enter into a game of fun in which they choose a random guy and film each other seducing him so as to use the footage later to humiliate him. But problems arise ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
couples, friendship, love and romance, battle of the sexes, womanizer, thirtysomething life, teenage life, singleness, contests and competitions, lifestyle, vengeance, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
fall in love, introspection, starting over, lifestyle, looking for love, hopes, couple relations, couples, sexual relations, wooing, male female relationship, lgbt ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dale Squire is a hip, quirky, independent single gal living in the glossy city of Los Angeles. After several failed attempts in quasi-relationships, Dale concludes that finding a meaningful relationship in L.A. is impossible. But being anti-social ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sentimental, feel good, realistic
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
looking for love, love triangle, clubbing, lifestyle, couples, singleness, rivalry, dating, single, love, hollywood, foot fetish ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Wendell, a neurotic, aimless twentysomething, struggles to figure out which girl he really belongs with: Joanna, the best girl he's ever known, or Vicky, the worst. His friend, Dave, helps him sort through his thoughts as Wendell discovers not ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, love affair, social worker, looking for love, self discovery, couples, fall in love, wooing, lifestyle, battle of the sexes, photographer, stand up comedian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Carter (O'Bryan) wonders if he's ever going to find a woman who wants to be more than "just friends." His conniving best friend Pat and beautiful step-sister Erin (Vanessa Marcil) both know what's causing the problem: ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, bittersweet, wooing, sexual relations, cons and scams, singleness, infidelity, looking for love, looking for sex, couples, friends, battle of the sexes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
kentucky, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An imaginative youngster (Kiernan Shipka) comes across an amnesiac prince (Simon Kassianides), who she believes is a fairy-tale figure. Convinced the man would be perfect for her widowed mom (Kellie Martin), she launches a plan to set the two up, ...
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humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, entertaining ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Pledging to keep herself from being the oldest and the only woman in her entire family never to wed, Montana embarks on a thirty-day, thirty-thousand-mile expedition to charm a potential suitor into becoming her fiancé.
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Jay Brooks is that black guy who digs indie rock, graphic novels, and dates white chicks. After a slew of bad break-ups, Jay gives up white women, "cold turkey," and he goes on a mission: "Operation Brown Sugar". But because Jay ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A happy newlywed marriage counselor's views on wedded bliss get thrown for a loop when she finds out her parents are getting divorced.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, sexy
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love and romance, wedding, true love, renewed love, marriage, couples, parents separation, family problems, family relations, couple relations, crumbling marriage, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young game designer falls in love with an older woman and suddenly his whole life turns upside down.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
lifestyle, unlikely couple, couples, love affair, wooing, fall in love, disorder, looking for love, older woman younger man relationship, love and romance, age-gap relationship, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
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36%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In this quirky romantic comedy inspired by a true story, an influx of women invade the small town of Herman, Minn., to get their hands on a surplus of bachelors yearning for female companionship. When the persuasive "cry from the heart" of ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, offbeat
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
small town, looking for love, couples, lifestyle, singleness, couple relations, love, male female relationship, social relations, love and romance, journalism, gender ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
minnesota, usa
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36%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A woman who gets paid to break people up is forced to become a matchmaker when some new competition muscles her out of the break-up business. Now, in order to save her company (and keep her high-priced wardrobe) she'll have to rely on her old ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, romantic
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Centers around the lives of Victoria, Zenobia, Clevon, and Phil -- all friends approaching the age of 35 and struggling to build the families they've always dreamed of. While Zenobia (Nicole Ari Parker) is still looking for a man, Victoria ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
friendship, lifestyle, comedy of errors, love and romance, midlife crisis, couple relations, buddies, wooing, couples, disorder, crumbling marriage, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
"Muffin Top: A Love Story" is the story of Suzanne (Cathryn Michon) a Women's Studies Pop Culture professor at Malibu University, who studies images of women in the media for a living, and yet is made insecure by the constant parade ...
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humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
looking for love, singleness, love and romance, physical appearance, couples, sexual content, friends
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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feel good, touching, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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semi serious, sexy, humorous, realistic, sexual
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Place:
usa, san francisco
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35%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Feeling abandoned by her therapist who's gone on an extended vacation, beautiful Lindsay (Estella Warren) gets help with her fear of commitment from an ad hoc support group formed by other New Yorkers also left high and dry by their shrinks. ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, elderly lovers, aging, elderly, love and romance, lifestyle, dealing with death, human nature, cemetery, wedding, female friendship, single parent ...
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Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
It's Valentine's Day and Tomhas big plans. He's about to get engaged and has a surprise party planned to share the good news with friends. But things take a turn for the worse. Tom returns home only to discover his girlfriend has ...
Style:
realistic, talky, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
valentine's day, fall in love, battle of the sexes, looking for love, sexual relations, friendship, lifestyle, buddies, best friends, couple relations, gender, thirtysomething life ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After dating several cheating husbands who pretended to be single, Rylee devises a scheme for revenge. She gets a married man drunk, convinces him that they slept together, then shows up a year later with a baby and demands money. Her blackmail plan ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Since girlhood, TAYLOR has believed that love and marriage are the most important events in every woman's life. Now she's 35 and single with no prospects in sight. As Taylor and her friends wade through the mire of the L.A. dating pool, ...
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Danny Reilly (Dean Paras) is a self-obsessed man who, after dumping Renee Weber (Neve Campbell), falls in love again with Corey Wells (Katie Wright). But Renee makes it her mission to see that Danny never falls in love again and sets out for attack ...
Style:
feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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