Movies like Jack
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Jack (1996)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Jack Powell suffers from an affliction that makes him grow four times faster than normal, so the 10-year-old looks like a 40-year-old man. After years of being tutored at home, Jack convinces his overprotective parents to send him to public school. The children don't know what to make of Jack, but with the help of his fifth-grade teacher, he makes an effort to win them over.
Style:
sentimental, touching, thought provoking, emotional, melancholic, feel good, humorous, funny, light, inspirational ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
childhood, freak, friendship, school, fish out of water, life philosophy, coping, genetics, disease, youth, parents and children, coming of age, child as adult, teacher, hospital, love, apocalypse, catastrophe, teenager, revenge, doctors, children, natural disaster, life, death ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california
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Most similar movies to Jack
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, touching and semi serious films with plots about runaway, dialogue, mentor, catastrophe, childhood, destiny and storytelling mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Jack: Drop Dead Fred (1991), Big (1988), Vice Versa (1988), Big Daddy (1999), The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When Elizabeth returns to her mother's home after her marriage breaks up, she recreates her imaginary childhood friend, Fred, to escape from the trauma of losing her husband and her job. In between the chaos and mayhem that Fred creates, ...
Style:
surreal, feel good, humorous, light, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
imaginary friend, mental illness, emotional manipulation, childhood memory, friendship, vengeance, unlikely friendships, psychology, loneliness, personal growth, family relations, guilty pleasure ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young boy, Josh Baskin makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how ...
Style:
sweet, feel good, touching, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
body swapping, child as adult, teenager, friendship, adolescence, magic, toys, coming of age, child's point of view, fish out of water, childhood, wish fulfillment ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, bronx new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa.
Style:
entertaining, light, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night, family outing, date night
Plot:
body swapping, switching roles, school, teenager, transformation, childhood, switching bodies, christmas, youth, farce, dysfunctional family, doctors ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, chicago illinois
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.
Style:
funny, sentimental, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
responsibility, child's point of view, immaturity, adoption, single father, parenthood, childhood, slacker, children, mentor, friends, parents and children ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.
Style:
compassionate, sentimental, stylized, surreal, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doctors, redemption, life philosophy, depression, hospital, introspection, parents and children, life is a bitch, dark humor, terminal illness, doctor patient relationship, father son relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
Style:
psychological, touching, thought provoking, inspirational, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, insanity, mental illness, guilt, transformation, redemption, psychology, holy grail, tragic event, haunted by the past, heroes ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, touching, feel good, inspirational ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
imaginary friend, childhood, magic, friendship, youth, bittersweet, imagination, circus, lone hero, life philosophy, vengeance, life & death ...
Place:
new jersey, las vegas, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Angus is a large, pathetic 14 year old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of one Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, date night
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, school, teenager, high school, cheerleading, bullying, prank, public humiliation, teenage life, misfit, love and romance ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation he is given a second chance, all he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country. What could possibly go wrong?
Style:
humorous, clever, unusual plot structure, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
bus, orphan, school, teacher, gangsters, friendship, road trip, farce, satire, twists and turns, corruption, stereotypes ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her ...
Style:
sentimental, light, emotional, feel good, intense ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, self discovery, troublemaker, haunted by the past, teenage life, parents and children, love and romance, mentally challenged, misfit, youth, first love ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
paris france, new york, tokyo, new jersey, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Danny DeVito plays an advertising man who is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job; Teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
teacher, teachers and students, military, unemployment, underdog, self discovery, soldier, instructor, unlikely friendships, honest, justice, teacher student relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, brooklyn new york city, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one morning to find he's 17 years old again. With his adult mind stuck inside ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, romantic, funny, light ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, family outing, date night ...
Plot:
high school, youth, body swapping, teenage life, popularity, adolescence vs adulthood, teenager, high school life, family relations, adult as child, parents and children, college ...
Time:
future, year 1989, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, new jersey, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job -- disguised as an English ...
Style:
feel good, light, touching, funny, sweet ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
cross dressing, divorce, nanny, comedy of errors, children, kids and family, family relations, custody battle, gender disguise, hidden identity, childhood, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Peggy Sue faints at a Highschool reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
Style:
sweet, sentimental, feel good, light, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
time travel, high school, high school reunion, alternate timeline, coming of age, time, teenager, destiny, unlikely friendships, time loop, americana, hopes ...
Time:
60s, 50s, future, 80s, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey, california
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32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of childhood friends, now in their thirties, reunite at Camp Tamakwa. Only a few of the original campers show up, but they still have a good time reminiscing. The people share experiences and grow while at the camp. They are dismayed to ...
Style:
feel good, touching, sentimental, humorous, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
camp, friendship, childhood, childhood sweetheart, weekend, honest, summer camp, reunited friends, mentor, group of friends, love and romance, buddies ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
canada, ontario canada, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, ...
Style:
feel good, emotional, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, kids, date night
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, small town, women, female friendship, best friends, childhood, youth, teenager, teenage life, children ...
Time:
90s, 70s, year 1991, year 1970, year 1995 ...
Place:
usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.
Style:
feel good, sweet, sentimental, touching, road movie ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
college, homeless, friendship, youth, college student, father son relationship, law school, justice, happy ending, graduation, self discovery, ambition ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, usa, boston, new jersey, harvard university
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32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of ...
Style:
feel good, touching, sweet, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
dog, coming of age, childhood, world war two, small town, animals, child's point of view, friendship, youth, children, baseball, lifestyle ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, oxford university, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.
Style:
feel good, touching, unusual plot structure, poignant, visually appealing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
vengeance, adaptation, catastrophe, hospital, brutality, police investigation, cancer, coming of age, irish, parenthood, death, college ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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, feel good, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
childhood, disney, job interview, child's point of view, siblings relations, father son relationship, brothers, family relations, birthday party, bad luck, coming of age, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exasperated millionaire father Charles to wish he never had her, is visited by fairy godmother Stella. In an effort to save Jessie, Stella casts a spell ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, sweet, melancholic, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, kids, date night
Plot:
friendship, maid, wish come true, parents and children, switching roles, unlikely friendships, fish out of water, self discovery, fairy godmother, curses spells and rituals, child as adult, power relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Determined to win the Miss American Miss pageant, Mona is ready to sacrifice anything and everything to guarantee herself the crown including her own daughter! She manages to persuade her best bud to raise the kid as her own (Miss AM can't be a ...
Style:
humorous, light, melancholic, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, beauty pageant, pregnancy, family problems, blind ambition, contests and competitions, underdog, family relations, ambition, single parent, child illness, parents and children ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey
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30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, feel good, sexy, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
single father, adoption, redemption, hopes, teacher, time, life & death, identity, happy ending, first contact, fight scenes, hospital ...
Time:
80s, 19th century, 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
virginia, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja (Cliff Curtis) for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, light, absurd, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
guru, change of heart, workplace, life philosophy, liar, life & death, family relations, life turned upside down, redemption, existentialism, destiny, creativity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
It's the story about seven very different best friends, and one summer that will bring them together like never before.
Style:
humorous, light, feel good, semi serious, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot:
friendship, teenager, camp, coming of age, nanny, children, babysitting, childhood, teenage life, parents and children, nothing goes right, siblings relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
connecticut, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jack and Caroline are a couple making a decent living When Jack suddenly loses his job. They agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It's just that he's never done it before, and really doesn't ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, entertaining, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
parenthood, fish out of water, advertising, switching roles, self discovery, family life, parents and children, fired from the job, relationship vs career, unfulfillment, misfit, rise and fall ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is currently dating a children's TV evangelist. Also living at the farm is his layabout daughter ...
Style:
humorous, sad, melancholic, clever, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, natural disaster, police investigation, runaway, lone hero, love story, honest, chase, creativity, culture clash, redemption, fight scenes ...
Time:
80s
Place:
kansas, usa, san francisco
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30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and the greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of fame, fortune and popularity, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.
Style:
clever, melancholic, thought provoking, dark, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teacher, high school, writers, single father, father son relationship, grief, loneliness, life & death, life philosophy, suicide, character study, loss of child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young boy is scared of the monster under his bed. He asks his 6th grade brother to swap rooms for the night as a bet that the monster really exists. Soon the brother becomes friends with the monster and discovers a whole new world of fun and games ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, entertaining, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, horror for children
Plot:
monster, brother brother relationship, friendship, coming of age, young heroes, halloween, mischievous children, supernatural ability, best friends, wish come true, fish out of water, child as adult ...
Time:
80s
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30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Antoine and Kenny Tyler are NCAA college basketball players, and Antoine is the star. Suddenly Antoine dies of heart attack and Kenny has to fill his shoes as leader of team. Some time later, Antoine returns as a ghost and helps Kenny in game and in ...
Style:
humorous, inspirational, semi serious, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, sport, ghost, college, life philosophy, death, sport team, contests and competitions, youth, ambition, gangsters, team ...
Place:
british columbia, new jersey, usa, seattle
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