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Leaving Normal (1992)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A female buddy story in which Meg Tilly plays a child-like 20-something who has just walked out on her abusive husband. Darly (Christine Lahti) is fleeing a life as a waitress and stripper and is on her way to Alaska to claim a home and family she abandoned eighteen years earlier after giving birth. The two run into each other on the road and Darly welcomes the company as they head north from Wyoming.
Style:
road movie, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying
Plot:
road trip, friendship, female friendship, truck driver, waitress, journey, female protagonist, waking up, girl power, buddy, friends, on the road, love and romance, couples, looking for love, down on your luck, strong female presence, human nature, bittersweet, buddies, couple relations, escape, truck, family relations, abandoned baby ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
alaska, wyoming, portland oregon, usa, canada
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Most similar movies to Leaving Normal
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about couples, friendship, friends, couple relations, bittersweet, love and romance and family relations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Leaving Normal: Sideways (2009), Full Grown Men (2006), Breaking the Rules (1992), Everything is Wonderful (2017), 10 Items or Less (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
295
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A struggling writer and his engaged buddy hit the road for California wine country. Remake of the 2004 film 'Sideways'.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, road movie, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
wedding, road trip, friendship, on the road, self discovery, friends, unfulfillment, buddies, couples, love, japanese man, humanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A man stuck in the reveries of his youth tracks down the boyhood friend he once tormented, only to find that simpler times were more complicated than he thought.
Style:
road movie, realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
amusement park, friends, partner, best friend, family relations, couples, introspection, couple relations, moral dilemma, youth, buddies, on the road ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two friends take their dying buddy on one last road trip.
Style:
feel good, sad, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
cancer, youth, friendship, on the road, partner, best friend, friends, unfulfillment, buddies, self discovery, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
california, usa, cleveland ohio, los angeles, reno nevada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Set in New York, the film tells the story of the friendship between two European immigrants; Maria and Lena during one intense week, as they struggle to find happiness and test the limits of their freedom.
Style:
humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic, independent film
Plot:
friendship, making love, sex, friends, female friendship, unfaithful husband, love and romance, best friend, best friends in love, love, sex scene, gay love ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An actor who is considering the role of a supermarket manager arrives at a grocery store on the outskirts of Los Angeles to do some field research. He subsequently becomes stranded, without a car or cell phone, and accepts a ride home with Scarlet, ...
Style:
feel good, touching, road movie, humorous, light ...
Plot:
friendship, self discovery, job interview, road trip, research, on the road, movie star, mentor, friends, stranger, actor's life, celebrity culture ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, seattle, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
674
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, fall in love, human nature, on the road, looking for love, introspection, best friend, hopes, parents and children, family business, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
30%
819
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Walkaway, a light-comedy drama, mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
buddies, friendship, couples, family relations, couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle, society, love and romance, parents and children, unsupportive parent, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, india
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three people and a baby set off on separate journeys, along the same road; their disparate dreams and stories intertwine amidst the breathtaking deserted Patagonic route.
Style:
road movie, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
on the road, road trip, self discovery, friends, friendship, redemption, hopes, rise to the top, human nature, family relations, small town life, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
argentina, latin america, south america, patagonia
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three women take a road trip to Santa Barbara in order to deliver the ashes of one of their dead husbands to his resentful daughter. Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden hijacks her two best friends and sets off in a vintage ...
Style:
touching, humorous, sentimental, semi serious, road movie ...
Plot:
friendship, on the road, family relations, parents and children, elderly, death in the family, mother daughter relationship, promise, road trip, longing, stepmother, female leader ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
idaho, utah, california, nevada, usa ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Philippines, Brazil, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Gentle Colin 'Col' Lawes happily lead a quiet life, running a news agency with his soiled-rotten wife Sandra and playing competition darts in the Atletic Arms team. Colin catches her committing adultery with team captain Geoff, a cop, who ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, funny ...
Plot:
love, infidelity, self discovery, obsessive quest, love and romance, couples, on the road, countryside, relationships, romantic rivalry, romantic triangle, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A film about three high school friends who find their happy-go-lucky existence tarnished forever the instant they get embroiled in a drug-running scheme that goes awry. When things start getting messy, they rue the day they agreed to the venture; ...
Style:
humorous, touching, sentimental, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, heroin, partner, going straight, drug dealing, social misfits, human nature, youth, buddies, redemption, lifestyle ...
Time:
70s, year 1992, 90s, year 1975
Place:
detroit, michigan, canada, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Motherhood is a comedy written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann, and stars Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot on location in New York’s West Village, focuses on the dilemmas of motherhood, such as marriage, work, and self, ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
best friend, family life, friendship, disorder, family relations, friends, couples, lifestyle, couple relations, parents and children, mother, blog ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom takes up with a controlling trucker and fights with her ...
Style:
touching, road movie, realistic, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, asthma, single mother, road trip, friendship, single parent, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, motel, on the road, human nature, starting over ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
san diego california, california, arizona, missouri, north carolina ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The Big Ask is a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend heal after the death of his mother. They would do anything for him - except for the one thing he wants.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
friendship, desert, moral dilemma, best friend, bittersweet, couples, dark humor, buddies, death of mother, young adult, couple relations, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lonely since his wife left him and alienated from his daughter, a cantankerous voice-over artist strikes up an unlikely friendship with his regular deliveryman. Many suburbs away, an elderly widow loses her license to drive and turns to her wry ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, loneliness, couples, love and romance, couple relations, friends, estrangement, unfulfillment, lifestyle, aging, multiple storylines, naked man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
It's Christmas time in the twin cities. Billy's working a lot of overtime, running barges on the Mississippi. He calls his friend Eddie, whom he hasn't seen in six months, and asks a favor: to drive with him to see his pregnant ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, talky, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
nudity, pregnancy, on the road, gender, love and romance, battle of the sexes, buddies, infidelity, friendship, friends, family relations, couples ...
Time:
80s
Place:
minneapolis minnesota, wisconsin
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Style:
talky, realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
divorce, friendship, bittersweet, skinny dipping, vacation, sadness, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, love and romance, introspection, human nature, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981, 70s
Place:
usa, new england
Similarity:
21%
719
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Chris Martin has a problem: his impending marriage. Like any other man about to enter into the holy vows of matrimony, Chris has begun to second guess himself. Is married life what he really wants? While his bride-to-be takes care of the wedding ...
Style:
sexual, contemplative, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
wedding, bittersweet, friends, family relations, couples, thirtysomething life, moral dilemma, chase, buddies, love and romance, introspection, friendship ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
21%
923
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The relationships of three men are examined through their use of technology.
Style:
mumblecore, talky, humorous, sincere, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
looking for love, lifestyle, friendship, youth, introspection, computers and web, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, misfit, social network, human relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Style:
talky, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, city life, couples, introspection, waking up, urban, breakup, singleness, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
widow, depression, bittersweet, crumbling marriage, family relations, feminist, middle school, male female relationship, age-gap relationship, career, starting over, lottery ...
Time:
80s
Place:
baltimore, usa
Similarity:
20%
2K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Joseph Kotcher, retired salesman, walks out on his son and daughter-in-law after their attempts to put him in a retirement home. He tracks down their babysitter, sacked because she is pregnant, and rents a small house nearby. He finds a new purpose ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
aging, christmas, old age, teenage pregnancy, senior citizen, old people, orphan, retirement home, family life, parents and children, friendship, pregnancy ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
palm springs california
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
Style:
touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, couple relations, teenage girl, teenage life, married man, coming of age, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, family relations, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, usa, seattle
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Two old friends flee New York City on a three-day road trip to Montreal to escape their problems and meet the great Donald Sutherland.
Style:
road movie, realistic, talky, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
on the road, road trip, friends, buddies, partner, youth, obsessive quest, friendship, introspection, lifestyle, city life, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, canada
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A couple hatches a highly dubious scheme to put the spark back in their marriage in this independent comedy drama. Annie (Katie Aselton) and Darren (Dax Shepard) have been married for seven years, and they love each other as much as the day they ...
Style:
mumblecore, realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
couples, couple relations, sexual relations, love affair, moral dilemma, love and romance, human nature, battle of the sexes, sex talk, polyamory, open relationship, polygamy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
friendship, aging, couples, family relations, couple relations, elderly, parents and children, old age, truth, old people, friends, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
20%
908
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A marvelous new film from Andrew Bujalski, one of the brightest stars in indie film, Beeswax revolves around the personal and professional entanglements of twin sisters Jeannie and Lauren – played by extraordinary newcomers Tilly and Maggie ...
Style:
mumblecore, semi serious, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
disability, twins, family relations, rivalry, love affair, legal, legal action, friendship, sister sister relationship, female protagonist, disabled character, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa, kenya, austin texas
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Lizzie's best friend, Andie, becomes pregnant and offers to give the baby to her. Lizzie's husband, Peter, reluctantly goes along with being the child's father, and Andie moves into the guest room for the remainder of the pregnancy.
Style:
realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot:
pregnancy, friends, best friend, family relations, life turned upside down, friendship, woman, surrogate mother, female friendship, personal growth, infertility, slice of life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, homecoming, hopes, family problems, couples, family relations, love and romance, estrangement, family life, eccentric family, parents and children, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Four women who discover untapped strength within themselves when they finally let go of what divides them
Style:
sentimental, touching, happy, anamorphic, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
grief, death of husband, widow, friendship, bittersweet, female protagonist, house painter, sister sister relationship, sisterhood, rock, female friendship, bereavement ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
20%
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