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Men with Brooms (2002)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A witty and clever comedy that follows four longtime curling friends reunited by the last wishes of their recently deceased coach and set out to win the Golden Broom. Realising that the out of shape crew will be hard-pressed to win without a coach, Cutter swallows his pride and calls upon a retired curling champion - his estranged father. Now, these men with brooms, along with their new eccentric coach and Cutter's new romantic interest Amy, set off on a comedic journey which takes them from frozen lakes to huge arenas, searching for perfect stones, lost loves and second chances.
Style:
humorous, funny, witty, feel good, slapstick, realistic, semi serious, light, inspirational, romantic ...
Plot:
friendship, cheerleader, underdog, leadership, ambition, starting over, sport team, contests and competitions, lifestyle, goofy hero, haunted by the past, olympics, small town, tournament, coach, funeral, redemption, skinny dipping, winter olympics, hockey, astronaut, surfing, friends, alcohol abuse, family relations ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
canada
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Most similar movies to Men with Brooms
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about ambition, rivalry, underdog, hopes, friends, contests and competitions and sport team mostly in Comedy, Sport and Drama genres. Some movies like Men with Brooms: When We Were Boys (2013), Chicks With Sticks (2004), The Boys III (2001), Slap Shot 3: The Junior League (2008), Mystery, Alaska (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Christmas 1967, when hockey was played on outdoor rinks. The Boys form the parish's second team and are guaranteed participation in the Holiday Tournament as they are the hosts. Despite limited talent, they dream of victory. Off the ice, they ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, realistic, period piece, sentimental ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
hockey, friendship, youth, small town, rivalry, coming of age, ice hockey, teenage life, ambition, contests and competitions, buddies, hopes ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The story takes the battle of the sexes into the hockey arena, as Paula Taymore - who almost once made the Olympic team - finds herself drawn into a challenge match against an irritating local men's squad. Fresh from a painful divorce, and ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
female athlete, hockey, battle of the sexes, ambition, against the odds, hockey player, lifestyle, fall in love, feminism, rivalry, friendship, sport team ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Three years have passed. The Boys are still a great hockey team in a garage league. Their coach Stan, in France for three years, returns from his trip to the delight of his troops. However, a wealthy businessman appears in the background and the ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, not serious, captivating, lighthearted ...
Plot:
hockey, friendship, rivalry, ice hockey, ambition, athlete and trainer, buddies, contests and competitions, underdog, small town, team, competition ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Get ready for a rough-and-tumble comedy that knows how to kick some serious puck!
Style:
realistic, exciting, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hockey, ice hockey, profanity, sport team, social relations, rivalry, athlete and trainer, hopes, orphan, underdog, lifestyle, against the odds ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south carolina, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In Mystery, Alaska, life revolves around the legendary Saturday hockey game at the local pond. But everything changes when the hometown team unexpectedly gets booked in an exhibition match against the New York Rangers. When quirky small-towners, ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, entertaining, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
small town, ice hockey, underdog, happy ending, hockey, transformation, winter, contests and competitions, hockey player, ambition, ice skater, heartwarming ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place:
alaska, usa, new york, new jersey, california
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Every Monday night The Boys put on skates and leave their troubled lives behind.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, not serious, humorous, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hockey, ice hockey, friendship, gangster, hockey player, drug, drinking, lawyer, winter olympics, ice skater, olympics, gambling ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
canada, quebec, tokyo, new jersey, california
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, India, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A hockey enthusiast since 12 years of age, Toronto-based Rajvinder Singh, even went to the extent of trimming his hair, discarding his Pagri/turban, did not complete his education, incurred the wrath of his father, Darvesh, who wanted him to be ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
ice hockey, hockey, family in crisis, culture clash, follow your dream, sport team, family problems, friends, society, ambition, parents and children, hockey player ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
SHOOTING FOR SOCRATES is a David Vs. Goliath set in Belfast against the backdrop of the 1986 World Cup. It tells the story of a momentous time in Northern Ireland's football history through the eyes of players, fans and the media. The film also ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, exciting ...
Plot:
soccer, hopes, ambition, rivalry, sport team, youth, contests and competitions, family relations, parents and children, soccer fan, football, underdog ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
ireland, belfast, brazil, northern ireland, mexico
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Story revolves around a young boxer, Izzy Daniels, who trains to follow in his father's footsteps by winning the Golden Glove. When his friend, Mary, however, asks him to substitute for a team member in a Double Dutch tournament, the young man ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, teen
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
human spirit, friendship, follow your dream, athlete's life, against the odds, lifestyle, ambition, teenage life, teenager, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
At Fallbrook Middle School, the annual student-elected Teacher of the Year award is held. And every year for the last 43 years Norman Warner or most fondly called Stormin' Norman Warner has won the award. Now that he has died, the burden of ...
Style:
touching, humorous, feel good, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
school, goofy hero, teacher, friends, small town life, high school life, youth, father son relationship, contests and competitions, rivals, high school teacher, family relations ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Similarity:
39%
16K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Aging baseball star who goes by the nickname, Mr. 3000, finds out many years after retirement that he didn't quite reach 3,000 hits. Now at age 47 he's back to try and reach that goal.
Style:
inspirational, humorous, stylized, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
baseball, redemption, underdog, hopes, friendship, ambition, athlete's life, rivalry, contests and competitions, journalism, major league, racing ...
Time:
year 2004, 90s, 2000s
Place:
milwaukee wisconsin, wisconsin, new jersey, california, san francisco
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A comedic romp that celebrates the power of friendship to turn your life around, Dias de Futbol introduces us to Antonio, an ex-convict and amateur shrink who convinces his pals that the best way to overcome their midlife crises and lack of success ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic
Plot:
soccer, marriage, friendship, starting over, athlete's life, ambition, follow your dream, introspection, lifestyle, contests and competitions, rivalry, sport team ...
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Approaching forty, Ferro is unsatisfied with his life as a construction worker and part-time boxing instructor in Los Angeles, CA. After a successful bout with a young pro boxer, Ferro decides to don the gloves one last time. The movie recounts his ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, sweet, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
underdog, olympics, mentor, ex athlete, athlete's life, contests and competitions, ambition, couples, friends, comeback, love affair, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, pasadena california, phoenix arizona, usa, california ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Two former Olympians, one a figure skater and the other a hockey player, pin their hopes of one last shot at Olympic glory on one another. That is, of course, if they can keep from killing each other in the process...
Style:
romantic comedy, sweet, feel good, teen, cute ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, kids, family outing, teens ...
Plot:
figure skating, skating, opposites attract, happy ending, underdog, winter olympics, fall in love, olympics, hockey, destiny, competition, hockey player ...
Time:
year 1992, 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
france, minnesota, chicago, new jersey
Similarity:
39%
94K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Doug Glatt, a slacker who discovers he has a talent for brawling is approached by a minor league hockey coach and invited to join the team as the "muscle." Despite the fact that Glatt can't skate his best friend, Pat, convinces him to ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, humorous, sweet, witty ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
hockey, dimwit, success, ice hockey, gay brother, relationships, love story, underdog, fame, gay son, misfit, bouncer ...
Time:
y2k, 21st century
Place:
nova scotia, nova scotia, canada, canada, quebec, new jersey ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Blackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an exceptional talent. Wanting to take on the Aussies he manages to become regional champion, only to get banned. Sports agent Rich Schwartz picks him up and ...
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic, sex comedy
Plot:
athlete's life, love affair, social differences, ambition, against the rules, interracial relations, society, hopes, contests and competitions, lifestyle, family relations, racism ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the sleepy town of Stensfors, the soccer team used to be something to be proud of , playing in the national league 30 years ago. Now the team will be dissolved if it can't win the rest of the games in the local league. Team member Kent goes ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot:
nothing goes right, alcoholic, couples, disorder, family problems, hopes, ambition, couple relations, crumbling marriage, small town, once promising, soccer ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
38%
10K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.
Style:
witty, feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
beauty salon, working class, fashion, competition, eccentricity, family relations, model, love and romance, follow your dream, relationship vs career, underdog, contests and competitions ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s
Place:
england, yorkshire, europe, london, detroit ...
Similarity:
38%
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45K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
Style:
humorous, funny, inspirational, cult classic, cynical ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, manly
Plot:
ice hockey, hockey, underdog, sport team, competition, mentor, partner, adaptation, hockey player, athlete and trainer, rivalry, opponent ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, canada, new jersey
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Adapted from a 1979 stage play written by Chicago's Organic Theater Company, BLEACHER BUMS details the exploits of a group of baseball fans as they sit in the bleachers of Lakeview Park watching a game between the hometown Bruins take on the ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, gambling, friends, rivalry, follow your dream, lifestyle, against the odds, buddies, ambition, couple relations, athlete's life, hopes ...
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Scottish second division football team Kilnockie is taken over by American Pete Cameron. The new owner puts pressure on manager Gordon McLeod to improve the fortunes of the team, and hires first division player Jackie McQuillan.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, inspirational, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
soccer, athlete's life, follow your dream, underdog, ambition, lifestyle, friendship, against the odds, football, sport team, athlete and trainer, society ...
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A Florida boy (Bryan Russell) tells his Little League buddies that his father knows two New York Yankees (Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris).
Style:
semi serious, realistic, uplifting, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
baseball, youth, new york yankees, baseball player, baseball coach, coach, sport team, partner, contests and competitions, obsessive quest, ambition, rising to stardom ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, florida
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Norway
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Swedish Lucas moves from Stockholm to a small Norwegian town, and immediately falls in love with Susanne, the goal keeper of the local girls' soccer team. He becomes axquanted with the overweight, sex-fixated son of the coach. With him as a ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, sincere, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
football, sport team, contests and competitions, fall in love, rivalry, social relations, ambition, youth, buddies, gain trust, village, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Friends Gary Black (Nathan Phillips) and Dumby Red (Luke Carroll) are on the same soccer team in their coastal Australian town. But to local racists, they're a world apart: Gary is white and Dumby is an Aborigine. This becomes an issue when one ...
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious ...
Plot:
racism, friendship, family relations, interracial relations, small town, teenage life, youth, rivalry, society, lifestyle, hopes, ambition ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
australia, south australia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, challenge the current high school girls’ state champs to raise money for breast cancer prevention. Sparks fly as the women go to comic extremes to ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, captivating, funny ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
cheerleader, breast cancer, rivalry, basketball, contests and competitions, against the odds, friendship, strong female presence, sport team, underdog, ambition, menopause ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austin texas, usa, texas
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
Style:
laugh out loud, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night
Plot:
american football, football, high school football, football team, high school sports, american football player, sport team, small town, partner, friends, power relations, social relations ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Katelin Kingsford, an Olympic hopeful figure skater wants to train with a Russian figure skating coach. In order to go to go to the school that Natasha is at, Katelin gets a scholarship playing on the girls hockey team.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
figure skating, ice hockey, skating, talent, rivalry, hockey, ambition, follow your dream, athlete's life, teenage life, friendship, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
When a young girl wants to join her high school's hockey team as goalie, she meets with resistence, but also gets support, especially from the star forward of the team.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
hockey, ice hockey, hockey player, underdog, rivalry, ambition, gender, lifestyle, youth, hopes, small town, teenage life ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Geraldine Elmhurst Liddle - Deen to her friends - is up against five other contestants for the $2 million jackpot on the game show "Bring Home the Bacon!". News of her upcoming appearance on the show takes her small New Brunswick hometown ...
Style:
game show, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
small town, ambition, contests and competitions, rivalry, family relations, couples, parents and children, elderly, social relations, rags to riches, family secret, infidelity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Sri Lanka, Italy, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Two friends, Manoj (Gihan De Chickera), a bartender, and Stanley (Dharmapriya Dias), a fruit vendor, wish to immigrate to the West to seek their fortune, but have difficulties getting their visa applications approved. They come across an application ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sinhala
Plot:
handball, friendship, ambition, starting over, best friend, misfit, society, life is a bitch, buddies, working class, dishonesty, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sri lanka, europe, asia
Similarity:
37%
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