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Summer Rental (1985)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to regain his pride and family's respect.
Style:
feel good, humorous, funny, light, road movie, intense, bad ending, melancholic, absurd, scenic ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, kids
Plot:
sailing, underdog, summer vacation, screwball, rivalry, on the road, friendship, love and romance, couples, nothing goes right, disorder, couple relations, boat, travel, summer, love, catastrophe, teenager, time, violence, hitman, writers, death, beautiful scenery, gunfight ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, florida
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, funny, cult film and feel good films with plots about storytelling, mentor, catastrophe, brutality, dialogue, nude and disorder mostly in Comedy, Adventure and Romance genres. Some movies like Summer Rental: The Great Outdoors (1988), Uncle Buck (1989), National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Overboard (1987), Hot Pursuit (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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feel good, funny, entertaining, light, touching ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family on a quest to Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.
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road movie, funny, humorous, realistic, feel good ...
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teens, kids
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
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Heiress, Joanna Stayton hires carpenter, Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht -- and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get ...
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Duration: 93 min.
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Young Danny is following his rich girlfriend's family to the Caribbean. But suddenly he simply must make a chemistry test and cannot go with them. After they have left, he gets a leave from his professor and takes a plane to find them. But he ...
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teens, date night
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's ...
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new jersey, new york, california, manhattan new york city, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything but normal. Desperate to win the part, Dickie hires a ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A group of guys takes their ice cream truck to the beach and meet some girls
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Plot:
woman in a bikini, summer, attraction, car, sun, joy, exhibitionism, desire, clumsiness, old man, pleasure, water ...
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Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exasperated millionaire father Charles to wish he never had her, is visited by fairy godmother Stella. In an effort to save Jessie, Stella casts a spell ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Four couples, all friends, descend on a tropical island resort. Though one husband and wife are there to work on their marriage, the others just want to enjoy some fun in the sun. They soon find, however, that paradise comes at a price: ...
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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