Movies like Like Father Like Son

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Like Father Like Son (1987)
 5.2
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Like Father Like Son (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dr. Jack Hammond has best chances to become medical superintendent in the clinic. So he's completely absorbed in his work and has no understanding for his teenage son Chris' problems with school. By accident one of them drinks a brain-exchanging serum, and it switches their identities. This leads of course to extraordinary complications in school and at work, but also to insight in the problems and feelings of each other.
Style: humorous, sentimental, not serious, inspirational, disgusting, independent film, feel good, unusual plot structure, melancholic, splatter ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night
Plot: body swapping, high school, body swap, youth, child as adult, switching roles, misfit, parents and children, family life, disorder, fish out of water, wish come true, teenage life, odd couple, adolescence vs adulthood, soul transference, father son relationship, disaster, teenager, doctor, regression, native american, surgeon, surgery, teenage boy ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Keyword: partners, gangsters, doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and entertaining films with plots about youth, disorder, body swapping, family relations, teenage life, switching bodies and teenager mostly in Comedy, Fantasy and Family genres. Some movies like Like Father Like Son: Vice Versa (1988), Wish Upon a Star (1996), Dream a Little Dream (1989), The Hot Chick (2002), 13 Going on 30 (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 11K
Vice Versa (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa.
Style: light, comedy drama, light hearted, sentimental, not serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, date night, family outing
Plot: body swap, body swapping, switching roles, school, switching bodies, childhood, transformation, christmas, youth, love affair, philosophy, regression ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Wish Upon a Star (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Seventeen-year-old Alexia Wheaton hasn't been herself lately. Neighter has her 15-year-old sister Hayley. In fact they've been each other. Alexia becomes fashion-challenged Hayley and she in turn becomes styling Alexia and the ...
Style: funny, entertaining, feel good, humorous, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night
Plot: body swapping, sisters, switching roles, high school, wish come true, teenage life, disorder, youth, siblings relations, sibling relationship, body swap, manipulation ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dream a Little Dream (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Bobby Kellar has a crush on Lainie Diamond, girlfriend of school jerk Joel. Coleman is working on an experiment which will help him move into a place where Dreams are reality. When an accident occurs Coleman finds himself in Bobby's body and ...
Style: inspirational, touching, humorous, epic, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, date night, teen drama
Plot: body swapping, switching bodies, youth, school, wish come true, teenager, dream, transformation, body swap, fish out of water, high school, disorder ...
Time: year 1989
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 102K
The Hot Chick (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Not only is Jessica Spencer the most popular girl in school -- she is also the meanest. But things change for the attractive teen when a freak accident involving a cursed pair of earrings and a chance encounter at a gas station causes her to switch ...
Style: funny, teen, entertaining, humorous, not serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: body swapping, high school, cross dressing, prom, switching roles, cheerleading, gender, popular girl, teenage life, dumb, gender bending, switching bodies ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 1st century b.c., 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.3
 215K
13 Going on 30 (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. With a little magic, her wish is granted, but it turns out that being thirty isn't as always as awesome as she thought it would be!
Style: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, light, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen fantasy ...
Plot: time travel, body swapping, youth, true love, fashion, love and romance, best friends in love, child as adult, adolescence vs adulthood, wish come true, body swap, desire ...
Time: year 2004, 80s, year 1987, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 239K
Big (1988)
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: feel good, sweet, touching, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: body swapping, adolescence, child as adult, coming of age, magic, friendship, toys, child's point of view, wish fulfillment, teenager, fish out of water, child ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place: new york, new jersey, bronx new york city, arizona, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 20K
All of Me (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the young, vibrant Terry Hoskins – but the spiritual transference goes awry. Edwina enters Roger's ...
Style: funny, light, feel good, talky, clever ...
Audience: family friendly, chick flick, date night
Plot: reincarnation, afterlife, battle of the sexes, switching bodies, body swapping, lawyer, soul transference, body swap, death, gender, fish out of water, switching roles ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 5K
18 Again! (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 18 Again! is a 1988 comedy film starring George Burns and Charlie Schlatter. The plot involves a grandson switching souls with his grandfather by means of an accident. This was one of a series of unrelated films, including Like Father, Like Son and ...
Style: feel good, melancholic, semi serious, humorous, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, family outing, date night
Plot: body swapping, body swap, soul transference, fish out of water, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, elderly, parents and children, wish come true, misfit, mistaken identity, car crash ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A visit to a natural history museum proves catastrophic for two high school rivals, an overachiever and a jock, when an ancient Aztec statue casts a spell that causes them to switch bodies and see exactly what it's like to walk in the ...
Style: romantic, teen, romantic comedy, funny, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: body swapping, high school, teenager, switching roles, love and romance, fall in love, battle of the sexes, switching bodies, body swap, enemies to lovers, school, teenage love ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.3
 14K
Freaky Friday (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: School girl Annabel is hassled by her mother, and Mrs. Andrews is annoyed with her daughter, Annabel. They both think that the other has an easy life. On a normal Friday morning, both complain about each other and wish they could have the easy life ...
Style: teen, funny, humorous, laugh out loud, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: body swapping, body swap, child as adult, childhood, mother daughter relationship, women, teenage girl, school, mother, switching bodies, coming of age, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, los angeles, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 215K
17 Again (2009)
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: romantic, feel good, entertaining, light, funny ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family outing, family friendly ...
Plot: high school, youth, body swapping, teenage life, popularity, adolescence vs adulthood, teenager, high school life, bullying, family relations, college, wish come true ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, year 1989, 80s, 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.4
 546
Willy/Milly (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Milly is annoyed whenever her mom tells her to behave more appropriate for a girl. She's just not interested in fancy dresses or prom dances. Some day her best friend's little brother offers her a potion which can make her deepest wish ...
Style: independent film, offbeat, humorous, touching, semi serious
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: gender bending, body transformation, transsexual, tomboy, teenager, transgender, impostor, solar eclipse, switching roles, best friend, astronomer, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Freaky Friday (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: TV remake of 1976 movie Freaky Friday.
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: body swapping, body swap, switching bodies, youth, preteen, woman, rollerblading, friday the 13th, gym class, peer pressure, school principal, detention ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 3.8
 1K
Opposite Day (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The world goes backwards on Opposite Day. The kids become adults, and the adults become kids.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, melancholic, captivating
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: child as adult, parents and children, switching roles, fish out of water, disorder, misfit, hopes, adolescence vs adulthood, siblings relations, wish come true, youth, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
I Was a Teenage Faust (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 15 year old Brendan Willy hates himself for being un-cool when he falls in love with the girl of his dreams. Enter Mr. Five, a no good tempter from hell, which in his last attempt to ensnare a soul before being fried for eternity, transforms Brendan ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, offbeat
Audience: teens
Plot: wish come true, deal with the devil, teenage life, teenage love, family life, destiny, youth, hopes, love and romance, curses spells and rituals, high school, loss of virginity ...
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.8
 10K
Switch (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall ...
Style: humorous, sexy, satirical, semi serious, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: body swapping, afterlife, fish out of water, murder, reincarnation, gender, gender bending, switching bodies, blonde, womanizer, transsexual, redemption ...
Time: 80s, year 1991
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Adventures of Food Boy (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ezra discovers he has a unique ability to make food appear in his hands. He quickly uses his new super powers to impress his friends and to become popular around school for the first time in his life.
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: high school, high school student, food, friendship, disorder, teenage love, escapades, supernatural ability, cooking and food, high school life, best friend, chaos ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Dr. Dolittle 3 (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lisa Dolittle sends her daughter to 'Durango', a Dude Ranch, to find herself. While there, she uses her talent to talk to the animals in order to save Durango from being taken over by a neighboring Ranch.
Style: semi serious, humorous, romantic, offbeat
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teens
Plot: animal, pets, friends, family life, family relations, talking animal, imaginary, misfit, disorder, teenage life, partner, youth ...
Time: year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 4.9
 113
All Screwed Up (2009)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: FREAKY FRIDAY with a twist. Teenisha (Chyna Lane of PRECIOUS, CADILLAC RECORDS) is your modern geeky teen - smart, suffering from ADD, an outcast at school, and an oddity in her own home. Pete is every girl's dream - star of the sports team, ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: body swapping, teenage life, life turned upside down, switching roles, misfit, youth, disorder, body swap, switching bodies, high school life, high school, adhd ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.7
 7K
Expelled (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Felix (Cameron Dallas) is a legendary prankster who gets expelled from his high school and, with his friend’s help, stops at nothing to hide it from his parents.
Style: witty, humorous, realistic, disgusting, funny ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: high school, teenage life, prankster, coming of age, high school life, youth, friends, school expulsion, college, power relations, teenage girl, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Deal of a Lifetime (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The agent for the Devil takes the soul of a high school sophomore in exchange for a date with the most popular girl on campus.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: deal with the devil, wish come true, disorder, lifestyle, youth, fish out of water, love and romance, hopes, misfit, social misfits, high school football, follow your dream ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Shaggy D.A. (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Wilby Daniels, a successful lawyer running for District Attorney, suddenly finds himself being transformed into an English sheepdog. Somehow he has to keep his change a secret and find just what is causing it, all the while eluding the local dog ...
Style: slapstick, humorous, semi serious, feel good, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: dog, animal, lawyer, animal life, transformation, law, district attorney, conspiracy, body swapping, curse, mischievous children, youth ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Freaky Friday (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When an overworked mother and her teenage daughter magically swap bodies, they have just one day to put things right again before mom’s big wedding.
Style: light, captivating, entertaining, humorous, emotional
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: body swapping, switching bodies, mother daughter relationship, parents and children, body transformation, adaptation, youth, relationship problems, fantasy becomes reality, happy ending, family problems, magical object ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 5.0
 6K
Zapped (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Zoey is a talented dancer whose organized life is rudely disrupted when she moves in with her new step-dad and three step-brothers, until she discovers a dog-training app that can get boys to obey her every command. But she soon learns that it ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, teen, light ...
Audience: family outing, teens, chick flick
Plot: high school, youth, teenage life, teenager, high school life, social relations, mean girl, wish come true, imaginary, teen romance, half brother, magic spell ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Totally Awesome (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Do you prefer to wax on or wax off? Preacher won't let you dance? Well then, put Baby in the corner and come on down, 'cause VH1 is bringing back more of the'80s you love in this feature-length film, Totally Awesome. The Gundersons ...
Style: parody, spoof, not serious, realistic, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, teenage love, love and romance, lifestyle, rivalry, werewolf, silly humor, disorder, martial arts, teenage life, high school life, youth ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Last Day of Summer (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Luke Malloy is freaking out. He doesn't want tomorrow to come because tomorrow means starting Middle School...saying goodbye to summer break and hello to homework. And even worse, hello to getting picked on by Meat, the terrible torturer of new ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, entertaining
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, date night
Plot: boy, time loop, summer, youth, time travel, teenage life, young heroes, hopes, introspection, friends, disorder, fish out of water ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.1
 59K
Teen Wolf (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a shy teenager's new-found powers help him score at basketball - and with the popular girls - he has some pretty hairy decisions to make.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, teen, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, coming of age, werewolf, school, teenager, high school life, friends, basketball, adolescence vs adulthood, father son relationship, transformation, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
If I Were You (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience: date night
Plot: body swapping, switching bodies, switching roles, life turned upside down, couple relations, couples, fish out of water, disorder, husband wife relationship, social problems, marital crisis, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
General Education (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Levi Collins is set to go to the local University on a tennis scholarship, but he forgot to tell his parents one thing - he didn't graduate. As a result, he must take summer school before his mom and dad discover he's failed senior ...
Style: humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, summer school, youth, high school life, social relations, parents and children, college, ambition, friendship, rivalry, fall in love, teenage love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Daddy You, Daughter Me (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Sangtae and his teenage daughter Doyeon are constantly arguing and haven't had a genuine conversation in years. When their souls are switched by a magical force for seven days, they must learn to tackle the awkward and unfamiliar situation in ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, sweet, romantic
Plot: soul transference, gender bending, body swapping, family relations, love and romance, switching roles, teenage life, teenager, gender, parents and children, teenage love, fall in love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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