Movies like The Odd Life of Timothy Green

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The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)
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The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.
Style: touching, funny, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sad, inspirational, melancholic, crying ...
Audience: family outing, teens, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: boy, adoption, wish come true, miraculous event, child, mother son relationship, parents and children, desire, family values, couple relations, family relations, childbirth, hopes, coming of age, young love, youth, father son relationship, parenting, kids and family, family life, parenthood, wanting a baby, magic realism, heartwarming, relationships ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, america
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Most similar movies to The Odd Life of Timothy Green

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, touching, feel good and semi serious films with plots about family relations, youth, parents and children, children, hopes, girl and father son relationship mostly in Family, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like The Odd Life of Timothy Green: Martian Child (2007), We Bought a Zoo (2011), Change of Plans (2011), A Lobster Tale (2006), Miracles from Heaven (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Martian Child (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A recently-widowed, science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: adoption, orphan, father son relationship, imagination, friendship, parenthood, youth, alien, single father, mars, writers, eccentricity ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
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We Bought a Zoo (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: single father, zoo, happy ending, animal, children, father son relationship, tiger, little girl, starting over, family life, countryside, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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100%
Change of Plans (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Sally and Jason Danville's life are turned upside down when a tragic accident suddenly names them the caretakers of four young children.
Style: humorous, sincere, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: custody, adoption, parents and children, life turned upside down, couple relations, disorder, family life, couples, youth, orphan, girl, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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A Lobster Tale (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Cody Brewer, a quiet New England fisherman isn't doing too well for himself. His wife feels neglected, and his son keeps getting picked on by the school bully. While out collecting his lobster traps one day, Cody finds a strange green moss that ...
Style: sentimental, captivating, light, sincere, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: family relations, miraculous event, family life, moral dilemma, fisherman, supernatural, rivalry, friendship, social relations, down on your luck, raft, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new england, maine, usa, newfoundland
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100%
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Miracles from Heaven (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: \When Christy discovers her 10-year-old daughter Anna has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter’s healing as she searches for a solution. After Anna has a freak accident and falls three stories, a miracle ...
Style: christian film, inspirational, sentimental, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick
Plot: christian, christianity, illness, faith, medical, parent child relationship, mother daughter relationship, sick child, miraculous event, child cancer, little girl, hospital ...
Place: boston
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100%
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Instant Family (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from ...
Style: feel good, sweet, funny, sincere, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, teens
Plot: adoption, parenting, foster home, foster parent, adoptive father adopted son relationship, adolescence, couples, parents and children, family relations, court hearing, children, anger ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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63%
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, touching, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: christmas, holiday, small town, small town life, angel, friendship, depression, life philosophy, snow, life changing experience, self discovery, happy ending ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1946, year 1945, year 1919 ...
Place: america, new york, new york state, usa
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100%
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The Kid (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Powerful businessman Russ Duritz is self-absorbed and immersed in his work. But by the magic of the moon, he meets Rusty, a chubby, charming 8-year-old version of himself who can't believe he could turn out so badly -- with no life and no dog. ...
Style: touching, inspirational, humorous, feel good, sweet ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: time travel, indifference, youth, childhood, changing the past or future, unfulfillment, imaginary, supernatural, happy ending, redemption, cynic, father son estrangement ...
Time: year 2000, 60s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1968 ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Yes Day (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A mom and dad who usually say no decide to say yes to their kids' wildest requests — with a few ground rules — on a whirlwind day of fun and adventure.
Style: feel good, captivating, humorous, funny, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: kids and family, children, humour, father daughter relationship, family relations, teenager, parent child relationship, mother daughter relationship, parents, father son relationship, parents and children, family life ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
12 Wishes of Christmas (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A woman whose dog was taken by her landlord follows her life coach's instructions to make 12 wishes for a better future, and watches in surprise as each of those wishes comes true in this Christmas fantasy for the entire family. Laura was ...
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, life turned upside down, wish come true, workplace, hopes, nothing goes right, best friend, disorder, down on your luck, love and romance, life is a bitch, dog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
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Foster (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK, India
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Some years after their son is killed, a married couple decide to adopt a child. One day a 7-year-old boy, Eli, unexpectedly arrives on their doorstep and things take a strange turn.
Style: sentimental, touching, feel good, sincere, philosophical ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: adoption, christmas, family relations, hopes, life turned upside down, divine intervention, angel, save the day, child as adult, starting over, bereavement, homeless man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Bedtime Stories (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fantastical stories he makes up for entertainment inexplicably turn into reality. Can a ...
Style: feel good, fairy tale, funny, romantic, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: miraculous event, wish come true, life turned upside down, imaginary, imaginary kingdom, imagination, children, escapades, nothing goes right, storytelling, uncle nephew relationship, magic ...
Time: year 2008, 70s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1974 ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Heaven Sent (1994)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Eddie, a fourteen-year-old juvenile delinquent of sorts, collides with a car during a petty theft and dies in the hospital. Due to some confusion in heaven, however, he is given three days to clean up his life with the help of a beginner angel - and ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good
Audience: family outing
Plot: heaven, teen rebel, juvenile delinquent, youth, meeting, miraculous event, bad influence, death, handgun, divorced mother, basketball, fire ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Angels in the Outfield (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins the pennant. The problem is that the Angels are in last place, so Roger prays for help to turn ...
Style: inspirational, touching, entertaining, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: angel, baseball, childhood, coach, magic, parents and children, hopes, ambition, wish come true, rivalry, kids and family, underdog ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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29%
Parental Guidance (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Artie and Diane agree to look after their three grandkids when their type-A helicopter parents need to leave town for work. Problems arise when the kids' 21st-century behavior collides with Artie and Diane's old-school methods.
Style: feel good, humorous, light, sentimental, funny ...
Audience: family outing, teens, adult
Plot: youth, children, kids and family, family bonds, life philosophy, punishment, family relations, technology, adoption, eccentric family, boy, bully ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
When Santa Fell to Earth (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Christmas is just two weeks away, it is pouring with rain, and Ben is struggling to get into the Christmas spirit. Suddenly, Bens life takes a turn for the better when Santa Niklas Goodfellow and his Christmas caravan come crashing down to Earth in ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, good versus evil, family relations, family life, imaginary, disorder, hopes, youth, young heroes, on the run, wish come true, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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26%
 7.0
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Marley & Me (2008)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A newly married couple who, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of ...
Style: touching, sad, feel good, funny, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, date night, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: dog, pets, animal, couple relations, life, parenthood, marriage, couples, friendship, family relations, children, family life ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: miami, ireland, usa, florida, pennsylvania
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26%
 7.4
 547K
Juno (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.
Style: funny, touching, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, adoption, teenager, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, high school, love and romance, female protagonist, teenage girl, strong female character, friendship ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Rent-a-Kid (1995)
Genre: Drama, Family, Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Harry Habert, owner of a rent office has an original idea: To rent babies from a nearby orphanage to the local families. He rents the Ward brothers to his first customers...
Style: humorous, funny, light, melancholic, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: adoption, children, dog, orphan, siblings relations, mischievous children, nothing goes right, disorder, family relations, parenthood, new year, child hero ...
Time: 90s
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25%
Ramona and Beezus (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Ramona is a little girl with a very big imagination and a nose for mischief. Her playful antics keep everyone in her loving family on their toes, including her older sister Beezus, who's just trying to survive her first year of high school. ...
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: mischievous children, youth, two sisters, teenager, aunt niece relationship, family relations, child's point of view, family life, sibling relationship, parent child relationship, disorder, teenage girl ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.3
 40K
Annie (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Ever since her parents left her as a baby, little Annie has led a hard-knock life with her calculating foster mother, Miss Hannigan. However, all that changes when hard-nosed billionaire and mayoral candidate Will Stacks takes her in on the ...
Style: emotional, touching, feel good, teen, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: adoption, father daughter relationship, foster child, orphan, rags to riches, music, hopes, rich and poor, parents and children, friends, kids and family, dancing ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.8
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Simon Birch (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Simon Birch tells the story of Joe and Simon's heart-warming journey of friendship. Simon Birch was born with a condition that makes him much smaller than all the other kids in town. Now, due to his condition, Simon thinks God made him this way ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, inspirational, touching, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, illegitimate son, friendship, destiny, disability, family relations, small town, justice, happy ending, life philosophy, obsessive quest, buddies ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 60s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teddy Duncan's middle-class family embarks on a road trip from their home in Denver to visit Mrs. Duncans Parents, the Blankenhoopers, in Palm Springs. When they find themselves stranded between Denver and Utah, they try to hitch a ride to Las ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: christmas, parents and children, family relations, family life, on the road, teenager, youth, holiday, christmas season, children, santa claus, full moon ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 7.8
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The Sandlot (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Rodriquez takes Smalls under his wing. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the ...
Style: feel good, funny, sentimental, teen, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, teen drama
Plot: baseball, childhood, coming of age, friendship, dog, adolescence, small town, boy, bullying, child, team, summer ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1962
Place: utah, california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.9
 88K
My Girl (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is ...
Style: sentimental, touching, feel good, crying, sad ...
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot: friendship, coming of age, teenager, childhood, father daughter relationship, first love, single parent, children, kids and family, single father, family relations, love ...
Time: 70s, 90s, year 1991, year 1972, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and ...
Style: emotional, tear jerker, sad, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: friendship, childhood, imagination, children, escape from reality, magical, fantasy world, loneliness, classmate, school, imaginary, friends ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 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 ⇓
24%
Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jim Carrey stars as Tom Popper, a successful businessman who’s clueless when it comes to the really important things in life...until he inherits six “adorable” penguins, each with its own unique personality. Soon Tom’s rambunctious roommates ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: penguins, bird, pets, children, animal, kids and family, animal life, family relations, animal training, parents and children, beautiful scenery, silly humor ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 70s, 80s, year 1981 ...
Place: new york, madagascar, antarctic, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.5
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Uncle Nino (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A distant, slightly dysfunctional family is brought closer together when the father's long-estranged Uncle Nino comes from Italy to Chicago for a surprise visit.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, indie film ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: family gatherings, family life, family relations, fish out of water, parents and children, optimism, couples, society, uncle, youth, family reunited, friendship ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.9
 636
Miracle (2000)
Genre: Family, Musical, Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story: What do you do if you're twelve years old, your mum is a neurotic babbler, your best friend is hitting on the girl you love, and you're the only guy in your class who doesn't yet sport pubes ...? For Dennis P. there's only one ...
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good, offbeat
Audience: family outing
Plot: family relations, youth, teenage life, mischievous children, wish come true, young heroes, parents and children, child as adult, hopes, best friend, coming of age, magic ...
Place: denmark, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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