Movies like Mr. Saturday Night
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Mr. Saturday Night (1992)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire. As Buddy looks for work in show business, he realizes that the rest of the world has forgotten the golden days of Buddy Young, and that there just may not be room in the business for an old comic like himself.
Style:
humorous, captivating, realistic, stylized, intense, factual, touching, sentimental, semi serious, buddy movie ...
Plot:
showbiz, comedian, ambition, actor's life, family life, aging, desire for fame, show business, talent agent, rise and fall, rise to the top, family relations, artists and showbiz, elderly, siblings relations, unfulfillment, relationship vs career, profanity, washed up star, tv star, audition, brother brother relationship, mentor, life & death, storytelling ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, new jersey
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Most similar movies to Mr. Saturday Night
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about artists and showbiz, showbiz, love and romance, storytelling, adaptation, dialogue and mentor mostly in Comedy, Drama and Biography genres. Some movies like Mr. Saturday Night: My Giant (1998), 700 Sundays (2014), The Three Stooges (2000), Punchline (1988), Stardom (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Billy Crystal plays a Hollywood agent who stumbles upon Max, a giant living in Romania, and tries to get him into the movies.
Style:
humorous, feel good, touching, light, entertaining ...
Plot:
friendship, tall man, monastery, showbiz, artists and showbiz, giant, unlikely friendships, destiny, opposites attract, love and romance, actor's life, friends ...
Time:
90s
Place:
romania, usa, las vegas, new mexico, europe ...
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95%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 700 Sundays, legendary comedian and actor Billy Crystal tells the stories of his youth, growing up in the jazz world of Manhattan, his teenage years, and finally adulthood. The Tony Award-winning show is a funny and poignant exploration of family ...
Style:
humorous, talky, realistic, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
actor's life, artists and showbiz, showbiz, youth, coming of age, parents and children, autobiography, stand up comedian, childhood, performer's life, parent child relationship, vulgarity ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, new york
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91%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A biography of the Three Stooges, in which their careers and rise to fame is shown throughout the eyes of their leader, Moe.
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
comedy team, rise to the top, actor's life, ambition, showbiz, lifestyle, three stooges, artists and showbiz, tv show, disability, comedian, farce ...
Time:
90s
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79%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Lilah Krytsick is a mother and housewife who's always believed she could be a stand-up comedian. Steven Gold is an experienced stand-up seemingly on the cusp of success. When the two meet, they form an unlikely friendship, and Steven tries to ...
Style:
talky, humorous, realistic, intense, clever ...
Plot:
romance, showbiz, ambition, rise to the top, performer's life, couples, friendship, stand up comedian, family, creativity, redemption, medical school ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
Style:
clever, captivating, realistic, cynical, stylized ...
Plot:
fashion, rise and fall, rising to stardom, lifestyle, desire for fame, rise to the top, ambition, obsession, celebrity culture, showbiz, model, fame ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, europe, france, canada, montreal quebec canada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Movies like Parenthood
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one ...
Style:
witty, cynical, stylized, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
filmmaking, ambition, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, showbiz, celebrity culture, lifestyle, spectacle, satire, writing, film within a film, ex wife ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, atlantic city new jersey, manhattan new york city
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60%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, realistic, touching, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
fall in love, basketball, referee, romance, couple relations, family problems, couples, profanity, friends, bittersweet, singleness, unlikely couple ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Matt Hobbs is a talented but unsuccessful actor. When estranged (and strange) ex-wife Beth dumps their daughter Jeannie on Matt, father and daughter have a lot of adjusting to do. His budding relationship with attractive production assistant Cathy ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
unsuccessful, satire, actor, artists and showbiz, youth, young heroes, single parent, actor's life, family relations, showbiz, hollywood, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from "The Tonight Show."
Style:
semi serious, humorous, talky, realistic, clever ...
Plot:
rivalry, tv show, showbiz, media, ambition, artists and showbiz, contests and competitions, late night, media satire, television show, television, talk show host ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1990s, year 1992, year 1991
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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, realistic, captivating, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
family, switching roles, fish out of water, parents and children, family life, job, relationship vs career, misfit, unfulfillment, rise and fall, parenthood, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Films like Funny People
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An old-time mogul struggles to reenter the club where power and money make the rules.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous
Plot:
hollywood, showbiz, one last chance, filmmaking, artists and showbiz, dishonesty, aging, betrayal, film industry, movie studio, profanity, film producer ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
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46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother Doris Mann, herself once a star and now a champion ...
Style:
humorous, touching, realistic, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, hollywood, dysfunctional family, rehabilitation, addiction, drug abuse, family problems, parents and children, filmmaking, self discovery, life is a bitch, actor's life ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A day in Hollywood, 1972, with young people looking for the 24 hours that will change their lives. Zach will open that night for a British rocker at Whisky a Go-Go; he lives in a canyon and plays impromptu duets with a mysterious guitarist he ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
hollywood, musician, celebrity culture, rising to stardom, ambition, desire for fame, music band, lifestyle, love triangle, nightlife, love and romance, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
70s, year 1972
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Filmed entirely on location in East Hampton, Long Island, "Last Summer in the Hamptons" concerns a large theatrical family spending the last weekend of their summer together at the decades-old family retreat which economic circumstances ...
Style:
talky, clever, realistic, semi serious, contemplative ...
Plot:
death in the family, dysfunctional family, love and romance, family problems, estate, couples, family relations, religions or cults, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, on the run, reunion ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, long island, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Benjy Stone is the junior writer on the top rated variety/comedy show, in the mid 50s (the early years). Alan Swann, an Erol Flynn type actor with a drinking problem is to be that weeks guest star.
Style:
witty, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
farce, profanity, comeback, odd couple, fish out of water, showbiz, friendship, alcohol abuse, live broadcast, actor, satire, partners ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1954
Place:
usa, new york, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, ironic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
couples, self discovery, society, lifestyle, ambition, love, adaptation, loneliness, bittersweet, stash, love and romance, unfulfillment ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An aging former child star tries to capture the wealth that has always eluded him by latching on to a lucky man while both have their eye on the same girl of their dreams.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating
Plot:
love triangle, rivalry, rise and fall, celebrity culture, dishonesty, youth, artists and showbiz, love and romance, showbiz, cons and scams, manipulation, down on your luck ...
Time:
contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two things she craves the most: real fame and true love. With more "Google points" than her ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, talky, semi serious ...
Plot:
actor's life, showbiz, love triangle, alcohol abuse, bittersweet, paparazzi, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, couple relations, follow your dream, ambition, romance ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
direction and purpose, self discovery, actor's life, thirtysomething life, parents and children, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, artists and showbiz, strong female character, brother brother relationship, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After a heart attack, Abbie Polin (Crystal), a New York doctor, goes to Los Angeles to see his father, Abe (King), who works in Hollywood as the "king of the extras." Their relationship has been strained for several years. This was the ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
hollywood, father son relationship, heart attack, child illness, midlife crisis, human nature, parents and children, family relations, family problems, estrangement, couples, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an actress, as well as the conflict that arises when ...
Style:
humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, cynical ...
Plot:
satire, ambition, desire for fame, rise to the top, workplace romance, workplace situations, filmmaking, lifestyle, rising to stardom, actor's life, love and romance, workplace ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's (Irma P. Hall) turn sour when sisters Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), Bird (Nia Long) and Maxine (Vivica A. Fox) start bringing their problems to the dinner table in this ensemble comedy. When tragedy ...
Style:
feel good, touching, sentimental, talky, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
family relations, thanksgiving, unity, sister, couple relations, family problems, couples, workaholic, love and romance, bittersweet, family gatherings, family in crisis ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
usa, illinois, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, satirical, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
fish out of water, audition, fictional reality show, misfit, human nature, tv show, tv star, love and romance, showbiz, satire, romantic rivalry, media ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
san francisco, usa, new jersey, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, talky ...
Plot:
small town, redemption, self discovery, aging, elderly, family relations, parents and children, generation gap, family reunited, hopes, retirement, father son relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, hawaii, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Fledgling screenwriters retreat to a quiet country manor to work on their script, but a constellation of needy characters produces constant interruptions.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, emotional, light, captivating ...
Plot:
friends, deadline, post traumatic stress disorder, gardener, family relations, artists and showbiz, actor's life, ambition, farm, disorder, house, actor ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Movies similar to With Honors
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
burlesque, stripper, showbiz, ambition, domineering mother, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, love and romance, rise to the top, family relations, couples, show tunes ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 30s, 20s, 20th century ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
It's James Franco's turn to step in to the celebrity hot seat for the latest installment of The Comedy Central Roast.
Style:
humorous, funny, absurd, talky, not serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
actor's life, showbiz, celebrity guests, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, comedian, insult, culture clash, dialogue, profanity, destiny, jews ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A famed stage actor reunites his family for a party, and plans to commit suicide after-wards, unless they are able to convince him not to.
Style:
touching, humorous, realistic, sincere, semi serious ...
Plot:
elderly, reunion, family gatherings, family life, lifestyle, siblings relations, homecoming, actor's life, family problems, parents and children, life & death, golden years ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be ...
Style:
humorous, touching, sentimental, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
aging, couples, couple relations, family life, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, elderly, leaving home, lifestyle, midlife crisis, family problems ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Girl 6 is a 1996 American film by director Spike Lee about a phone sex operator. Theresa Randle played the title character, and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks wrote the screenplay. The soundtrack is composed entirely of songs written by Prince. The ...
Style:
sexy, talky, humorous, surreal, absurd ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
phone sex, neighbor, friendship, thirtysomething life, lifestyle, workplace situations, boss and employee, nudity (full frontal - brief), telephone operator, sexual fantasy, actress, audition ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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