Movies like The Paper Brigade

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The Paper Brigade (1996)
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The Paper Brigade (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A 14 year old boy named Gunther moves to a small town with his parents and little brother. He meets up with a group of overly charitable paper boys who want him to sub for their friend while he's out of town. Gunther agrees so he can get enough money for concert tickets to take his blonde and beautiful crush too, all the while dealing with Chad, her wannabe boyfriend and his bully friends. All in all, Gunther learns to respect himself and other people and to have fun during it all.
Style: feel good, realistic, touching, tense, rough, epic, independent film, semi serious, nostalgic
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: bully, youth, small town life, friends, small town, teenager, gang, baseball, adolescent girl, adolescent boy, teenage boy, childhood, coming of age, paperboy, heroes, good versus evil, anti hero, dog, cat, job, family relations, ant, mirror, swimming pool, war veteran ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york
Keyword: rose

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Most similar movies to The Paper Brigade

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and touching films with plots about youth, family relations, friends, friendship, coming of age, childhood and teenager mostly in Comedy, Family and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Paper Brigade: Buddy (1997), Little Big League (1994), How to Eat Fried Worms (2006), Beethoven's 5th (2003), The ButterCream Gang (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Buddy (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.
Style: light, semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: gorilla, animal, zoo, socialite, friendship, unlikely friendships, adaptation, wilderness, family relations, jungle, kids and family, camp ...
Time: 1920s, year 1997, 90s, 1930s
Place: usa, chicago, new york, philadelphia
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100%
Little Big League (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted head honcho quickly appoints himself manager, causing unrest in an organisation that struggles to take orders from a 12-year-old.
Style: humorous, epic, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: baseball, childhood, coming of age, youth, teenager, motivation, mathematics, sport team, boy, friends, power relations, family relations ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: minnesota, usa, minneapolis minnesota, bronx new york city, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: During the first day of his new school year, a fifth grade boy squares off against a bully and winds up accepting a dare that could change the balance of power within the class.
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: boy, youth, coming of age, bully, friendship, contests and competitions, parents and children, bullying, love and romance, rivalry, friends, couples ...
Time: year 2006
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Beethoven's 5th (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. When Sara takes Beethoven to spend summer vacation with wacky Uncle Freddie in an old mining town, the mischievous canine "digs up" the missing clue to a legendary hidden fortune of Rita and Moe ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: dog, animal, youth, saint bernard dog, family relations, friendship, family life, partner, best friend, friends, chase, escapades ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The ButterCream Gang (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Unlike most gangs, the ButterCream gang does good deeds. Their leader, Pete, has to go live with his aunt in Chicago. But things don't go well in Chicago and Pete is changed when he returns. Soon Pete is hanging around with the wrong crowd. But ...
Style: epic, independent film, realistic, serious, touching
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: religious, street punk, friendship, gang, aunt nephew relationship, small town life, small town, teenage life, city life, friends, family relations, buddies ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, utah
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38%
The Little Rascals (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and the other characters made famous in the Our Gang shorts of the 1920s and 1930s are brought back to life in this nostalgic children's comedy. When Alfalfa starts to question his devotion to the club's ...
Style: feel good, light, sentimental, sweet, not serious ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, teens, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: childhood, children, child, bully, dog, mischievous children, rivalry, parents and children, precocious child, youth, friendship, rich kid ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
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38%
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Explorers (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The visionary dreams of three curious and adventuresome young boys become an exciting reality in Explorers, the action-fantasy from director Joe Dante, who combines keen humor, warmth and fantasy with unexpected twists. In their makeshift ...
Style: light, cult classic, feel good, mindfuck, epic ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: space travel, friendship, space, childhood, bullying, coming of age, ufo, adolescence, fantasy world, children, outer space, teenager ...
Time: future, 80s, year 1985
Place: maryland, washington d.c.
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35%
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House Arrest (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned, are acting childishly when they decide to divorce after 18 years of marriage, so they lock them up in the basement until they'll sort out their ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: divorce, childhood, family relations, family problems, parents and children, family life, love, hostage, kidnapping, couples, bullying, youth ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: hawaii, ohio
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35%
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Now and Then (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, ...
Style: feel good, emotional, touching, teen, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, small town, women, female friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, childhood, youth, teenager, teenage life, children, friends ...
Time: 90s, 70s, year 1991, year 1970, year 1995 ...
Place: usa, indiana
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32%
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Lassie (1994)
Genre: Family, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An update of the Lassie legend stars Thomas Guiry as a troubled city kid whose family retreats to the country, where he befriends the famous collie and changes for the better. Conflict develops when a ruthless sheep rancher causes trouble for ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, sweet, light ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: dog, boy dog relationship, pets, coming of age, friendship, animal, childhood, mischievous children, family life, countryside, teenage life, lassie ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: usa, virginia, baltimore
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32%
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Genius (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Charlie Boyle finds that even his high IQ can't solve all of his problems when he takes on a double life in order to make friends his own age.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: hidden identity, youth, ice hockey, adolescence, preteen, college life, teenage life, campus, college, high school life, high school, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Little Manhattan (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walked into his life, actually into his karate class. But before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she tells him she will not be going to public school any ...
Style: touching, romantic, feel good, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: first love, children, child's point of view, coming of age, school, friendship, love story, jealousy, bully, love, couples, childhood love ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Little Rascals Save the Day (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Little Rascals are back in an all-new movie! Join the fun with Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla, Buckwheat, Petey the dog and the whole gang as they are up to their usual mischief! The Rascals try anything to raise the money needed to save their ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, friends, children, family relations, save the day, gang, disorder, eccentric family, goofy hero, heroes, pets, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
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31%
Leave It to Beaver (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio - wise father Ward, loving mother June, teen-age son Wally and 8-year-old "Beaver" Theodore. Beaver hopes to get a bike as a gift from his father and to please him tries out for his school ...
Style: melancholic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, epic
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: when the parents are away, childhood, family relations, happy ending, prank, parents and children, family life, american football, mischievous children, nothing goes right, friendship, high school life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 50s
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Benji (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Benji is a stray who has nonetheless worked his way into the hearts of a number of the townspeople, who give him food and attention whenever he stops by. His particular favorites are a pair of children who feed and play with him against the wishes ...
Style: sentimental, sweet, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: dog, animal actor, kidnapping, friendship, rescue, animal, betrayal, greed, obsession, life philosophy, family relations, longing ...
Time: 70s
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30%
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Camp Nowhere (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realizes that they are all facing the same ...
Style: teen, light, entertaining, sentimental, not serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: summer camp, high school, childhood, camp, parent child relationship, coming of age, misfit, cheerleading, frame up, teenage life, friends, disorder ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: usa
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29%
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Bingo (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bingo, the runaway circus dog, is off the leash and saving Chuckie's life! Bingo and the boy become the best of friends in this canine comedy featuring doggy disguises and skateboarding, pinball and prison. Chuckie and his parents (Cindy ...
Style: humorous, touching, not serious, spoof, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, friendship, on the road, rescue, american football, escapades, youth, pets, kidnapping, childhood, coming of age, animal protagonist ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
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29%
Bert: The Last Virgin (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film is based on a series of immensely popular Swedish children's books, about the boy Bert, who is just hitting puberty and having the usual problems with it. But that's where the usual ends abruptly.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: looking for sex, coming of age, loss of virginity, high school, teenage life, parents and children, high school hunk, teenage love, love and romance, youth, family relations, teenager ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: eastern europe
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29%
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Mr. Troop Mom (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Public Defender Eddie is a widower with a 13 year-old daughter, Naomi. A classic workaholic, Eddie has been M.I.A. for most of Naomi's big moments. But when an unfortunately timed accident gives Eddie the opportunity to become the "Team ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, touching
Audience: family outing, chick flick, teens, pre-teens, kids
Plot: youth, parents and children, treasure hunt, family life, camp, siblings relations, friends, family relations, woods, obstacle course, climbing, embarrassment ...
Time: 21st century
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28%
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My Bodyguard (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Clifford Peach (Chris Makepeace), an easygoing teenager, is finding less than easy to fit in at his new high school, where a tough-talking bully (Matt Dillon) terrorizes his classmates and extorts their lunch money. Refusing to pay up, Clifford ...
Style: realistic, entertaining, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, bullying, coming of age, bully, grandmother grandson relationship, mentor, gang, bodyguard, youth, school, angst ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.1
 16K
The Wizard (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Corey (Fred Savage) refuses to let his emotionally disturbed younger brother Jimmy (Luke Edwards) be institutionalized, and the two run away together. They soon join forces with a resourceful girl (Jenny Lewis), who notices that Jimmy has a special ...
Style: road movie, touching, melancholic, intense, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: childhood, video game, competition, on the road, child, children, teenager, kids and family, underdog, computer game, family relations, siblings relations ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: california, nevada, utah, usa, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Man of the House (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ben Archer is not happy. His mother, Sandy, has just met a man, and it looks like things are pretty serious. Driven by a fear of abandonment, Ben tries anything and everything to ruin the "love bubble" which surrounds his mom. However, ...
Style: touching, funny, melancholic, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: childhood, parents and children, mischievous children, single parent, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, kids and family, camping, opposites attract, male bonding, camp ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Sandlot 2 (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A decade has passed in the small town where the original Sandlot gang banded together during the summer of ’62 to play baseball and battle the Beast. Now comes the sequel, a campy romp back to the dugout where nine new kids descend on the diamond ...
Style: feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot: sport team, youth, baseball, friendship, vengeance, partner, friends, teenage life, ambition, coming of age, buddies, rivalry ...
Time: year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Frankie & Hazel (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Actress JoBeth Williams directed this Showtime family feature starring The Sixth Sense's Mischa Barton for Barbra Streisand's Barwood Films. Barton is Frankie and Ingrid Uribe is Hazel, Frankie's neighbor and best friend. Frankie is ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, youth, ballet, baseball, small town, ambition, follow your dream, family relations, hopes, dancer's life, feminism, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Rusty: A Dog's Tale (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two orphans named Jory and Tess live with their grandparents. However, their cousins Bart and Bertha try to take them away because the two kids have trust funds from their dead parents. When Bart and Bertha kidnap the newborn puppies, Rusty the dog ...
Style: independent film, humorous, feel good, semi serious
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: dog, family relations, rescue, anti hero, family life, animal life, friends, disorder, heroes, pets, mischievous children, hopes ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Bored Silly (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: What starts out as a boring day for Bobby, Johnnie and Chuck quickly escalates into a riotous backyard adventure. A swarming beehive, a lawn mower with a mind of its own, a mysterious junkman and the neighborhood bully are just some of the hilarious ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, mischievous children, friendship, young heroes, buddies, disorder, teenage life, small town, summer vacation, partner, heroes, coming of age ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
12 Dogs of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The dogs of Doverville are in trouble again... but Emma O'Conner is back to save them in a song-filled, seasonal extravaganza. Mean-spirited mogul Finneas James plots to shut down the local puppy orphanage, unless Emma can come up with the ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, sincere, humorous, independent film
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, young heroes, rescue, small town life, pets, youth, animal life, danger, farm, social relations, small town, dog ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.8
 102K
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 ⇓
25%
Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: It's graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means - time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night to remember, as the nerds become studs, the jocks are humiliated, and freshman crushes blossom ...
Style: romantic, realistic, feel good, funny, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, coming of age, college, youth, graduation, house party, party, friends, cheerleader, american football, bullying ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, y2k, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A valedictorian's declaration of love for a high-school cheerleader launches a night of revelry, reflection and romance for a group of graduating seniors.
Style: sexy, teen, humorous, cute, light ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenager, youth, fall in love, adolescence, nerd, high school, teenage love, couple relations, unlikely couple, opposites attract, popular girl, friends ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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