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The Strongest Man in the World (1975)
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Strongest Man in the World is a 1975 film starring Kurt Russell as Dexter Riley, a student in the fictional Medfield College. A school laboratory accident mixes one student's vitamin cereal mix with Dexter Riley's chemical experiment. The students decide to dispose of the mess by giving it to their neighbor's cow, with unintended consequences: the cow begins producing an extraordinary amount of milk! When they try it out on themselves, they discover that the mixture gives any human superhuman strength for a few minutes. The school sees this as the thing needed to save their school from closure, but a competitor learn of this deal, and hires two criminals to stop it.This is the third and final film in a series of comedies, which depict the adventures of perpetual college student, Dexter Riley. It follows the 1972 film, "Now You See Him, Now You Don't," and the 1969 film, "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes."
Style:
feel good, humorous, not serious, campy, offbeat
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
disney, laboratory, fraternity, experiment, super powers, humour, school, college, rivalry, cow, arrest, overweight, strong man, heroes, youth, space and aliens, teachers and students, student life, high school life, teenage life, escapades, high school, contests and competitions, experiment gone awry, disorder ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, feel good and not serious films with plots about disorder, youth, disney, imaginary, dog, teenage life and teenager mostly in Comedy, Family and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Strongest Man in the World: The Million Dollar Duck (1971), Underdog (2007), Zenon: The Zequel (2001), Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (1997), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
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humorous, melancholic, semi serious, entertaining, satirical ...
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments land him in deep trouble with the law.
Style:
not serious, feel good, humorous, psychotronic
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
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A lab accident gives a hound named Shoeshine some serious superpowers -- a secret that the dog eventually shares with the young boy who becomes his owner and friend.
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 100 min.
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humorous, feel good, not serious
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kids, family outing, pre-teens
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
The joke's on absent-minded scientist Wayne Szalinski when his troublesome invention shrinks him, his brother and their wives so effectively that their children think they've completely disappeared. Of course, this gives the kids free rein ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before Dexter and his friends, Debbie and Richard Schuyler, can even enjoy their spectacular discovery, ...
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humorous, exciting, semi serious, psychotronic
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a ...
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43%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the great Disney tradition of wild family fun, a young Kurt Russell stars as Steven Post - an ambitious mailroom clerk at a second-rate TV network. With his eye on the boardroom, and getting nowhere with the studio's top dog, he makes a ...
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32%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Zenon Kar a teenager living on a space station in the year 2054 competes in the first ever Galactic Teen Supreme contest.
Style:
humorous, not serious, feel good, futuristic
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
College whiz-kid Merlin Jones concocts a method for teaching advanced information to a chimpanzee, then creates a flying machine of his own design, ultimately raising havoc on the campus.
Style:
exciting, semi serious, humorous, psychotronic, offbeat
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
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A group of misfit teens evade a corrupt scientist when they steal and attempt to return a suit that delivers supernatural strength to its wearer.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his ...
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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semi serious, exciting, humorous, feel good, offbeat
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kids, pre-teens, family outing
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Story:
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