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Taking Care of Business (1990)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
Style:
humorous, light, realistic, semi serious, funny, feel good, laugh out loud, hilarious, inspirational, exciting ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
mistaken identity, prison, baseball, cons and scams, female nudity, dalmatian, swimming pool, stolen identity, lone hero, fish out of water, disorder, dishonesty, misfit, prison life, nothing goes right, vengeance, prison escape, jail, male protagonist, radio, redheaded woman, sex on first date, life, career, happiness ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 1990s
Place:
california, malibu california, chicago, los angeles
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and funny films with plots about disorder, culture clash, catastrophe, farce, dialogue, mentor and storytelling mostly in Comedy, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Taking Care of Business: Night Shift (1982), Brewster's Millions (1985), The Couch Trip (1988), Born in East L.A. (1987), Life Stinks (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbour ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, talky, intense ...
Plot:
pimp, friendship, prostitution, sex club, elevator, thanksgiving, christmas, extortion, fiance fiancee relationship, anger, neighbor, argument ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, light, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
baseball, rags to riches, baseball player, millionaire, farce, hotel, inheritance, lawyer, childhood, photographer, black, heir ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The escaped delinquent John W. Burns, Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
radio, mental illness, impersonation, mental patient, teen angst, psychology, psychopath, charisma, false identity, con man, fake doctor, silly humor ...
Time:
80s
Place:
london, england, europe, illinois, los angeles ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without ...
Style:
humorous, parody, funny, entertaining, talky ...
Plot:
culture clash, immigrant, mistaken identity, deportation, weed, farce, adaptation, lone hero, twists and turns, fish out of water, dishonesty, misfit ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mexico, los angeles, latin america, tijuana mexico, california
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with with a homeless woman.
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, melancholic, semi serious ...
Plot:
homeless, wealth, goofy hero, satire, poverty, homelessness, businessman, rags to riches, self discovery, survival, switching roles, social differences ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Place:
arizona, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When his brother asks him to look after his young son, Clifford, Martin Daniels agrees, taking the boy into his home and introducing him to his future wife, Sarah. Clifford is fixated on the idea of visiting a famed theme park, and Martin, an ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, realistic, funny, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
amusement park, prank, nothing goes right, father son relationship, family relations, parents and children, fish out of water, disorder, eccentric family, kids in trouble, mischievous children, youth ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, future
Place:
hawaii, los angeles, usa, san francisco, antarctica
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, talky, funny, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
road trip, satire, on the road, motor home, self discovery, quitting a job, cross country trip, married couple, fired from the job, marriage, couples, fish out of water ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1985
Place:
las vegas, arizona, nevada, new york, los angeles ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman are very rich but not happy Dave is a hard working business man, his wife is only interested in yoga, aerobics and other meditation classes, and he sleeps with the house maid. Their teenage son is ...
Style:
entertaining, funny, laugh out loud, clever, realistic ...
Plot:
homeless, dog, satire, dysfunctional family, swimming, closeted gay, wealth, hobo, thanksgiving, homeless man, homelessness, suicide attempt ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Joe Pesci stars as Louie Kritski, a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge gives him another option, which he accepts -- he must live in his rat-infested hell ...
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, clever, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
culture clash, fish out of water, stupidity, justice, misfit, self discovery, parents and children, african american, racial slur, court, landlord tenant relationship, hip hop ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, boston
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
Style:
entertaining, funny, humorous, slapstick, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
moving, husband and wife, truck, kung fu, dysfunctional family, identical twins, road trip, gangster, love affair, classic car, black, family relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
idaho, usa, new jersey, new orleans
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
Style:
humorous, talky, melancholic, light, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
singleness, slutty attitude, breakup, adaptation, starting over, couple relations, love and romance, looking for love, illicit affair, dating, slut, affair ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc (Michel Blanc) is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around ...
Style:
light, absurd, talky, melancholic, humorous ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, twins, self discovery, disorder, artists and showbiz, actor's life, nothing goes right, satire, cinema, filmmaking, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, year 1993, 70s, 1920s
Place:
france, paris france, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Michael has written a schollarly book on the revolutionary war. He has sold the film rights. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes very ...
Style:
melancholic, witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
young lovers, culture clash, crime gone awry, couple relations, artists and showbiz, love and romance, showbiz, fish out of water, actor's life, couples, celebrity culture, filmmaking ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, 20th century, 1930s, 18th century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.
Style:
funny, witty, humorous, laugh out loud, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
travel, culture clash, chase, bad luck, marriage, railway, farce, job interview, husband wife relationship, taxi, journey, meme ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
boston, new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, ohio ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.
Style:
funny, inspirational, humorous, light, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
workplace, career, computers and web, starting over, new job, rivalry, boss and employee, sarcasm, middle aged, lifestyle change, fish out of water, programmer ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, san francisco, usa, north america
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, funny, intense ...
Audience:
date night, kids, family outing
Plot:
sailing, summer vacation, underdog, rivalry, screwball, teenage girl, beach, air traffic controller, summer, friendship, on the road, nothing goes right ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
florida, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, slapstick, feel good ...
Plot:
workplace, farce, department store, family relations, rise to the top, wooing, parents and children, disorder, goofy hero, mistaken identity, chaos and mayhem, store ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Matthew Barnes is a young exec on the move up who finds himself a pawn in corporate in-fighting when he's sent to London to oversee a merger
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, funny
Plot:
satire, workplace, culture clash, rivalry, couple relations, love and romance, boss and employee, vengeance, couples, workplace situations, workplace romance, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, chicago
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run ...
Style:
funny, humorous, witty, unusual plot structure, absurd ...
Plot:
idiot, taxi driver, police corruption, firefly, crazy, dumb, chase, stupidity, buddy, ballet, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 1930s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Henry (Streisand) is a woman who would do anything for her husband Pete-- including borrow money so he has a chance of making his dreams come true. But now there's the loan sharks to deal with...
Style:
hilarious, semi serious, realistic, feel good, witty ...
Plot:
money, loan shark, race against time, couple relations, nothing goes right, prostitute, love and romance, fall in love, dishonesty, family relations, couples, screwball ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.
Style:
sexy, humorous, feel good, clever, captivating ...
Plot:
prison, mistaken identity, escape, religion, small town, monk, clergy, priest, monastery, on the run, fish out of water, buddies ...
Time:
20th century, year 1989, 80s, year 1935, 1930s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When a happily married family man, who would never consider an affair, meets a beautiful woman in red, he is totally infatuated and desperate to make her acquaintance. However, as he tries out various schemes to sneak out to meet her, he realizes ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, sexy, intense, light ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
obsession, infidelity, adultery, love triangle, sexy woman, love and romance, goofy hero, female nudity, bare breasts, midlife crisis, cheating, voyeurism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, los angeles, california, san diego california
Similarity:
100%
120K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
As an idle, good-natured bachelor, Uncle Buck is the last person you would think of to watch the kids. However, during a family crisis, he is suddenly left in charge of his nephew and nieces. Unaccustomed to suburban life, fun-loving Uncle Buck soon ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, light, touching ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, happy ending, family values, child care, when the parents are away, parents and children, babysitter, fish out of water, respect, mischievous children, siblings relations, babysitting ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, illinois, minnesota, wisconsin, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Senor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers are special, though: When the order is for a pizza with extra anchovies, it means the female customers are looking for some loving. ...
Style:
sex comedy, funny, humorous, laugh out loud, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
pizza delivery boy, summer job, milf, farce, college, older woman younger man relationship, teenager, pizzeria, gigolo, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, sex ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, beverly hills, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Eddie is a con artist. But this time he's framed and comes before a judge. By claiming insanity, he hopes to get off the hook. He manages end up in a hospital for a mental examination. That night, a storm breaks out over New York, and the ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doctor, mistaken identity, hospital, african american, fish out of water, hidden identity, nothing goes right, doctors and patients, disorder, gangster, storm, helicopter ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot in a baseball game when was a kid. One night he meets this mysterious man, who could change his ...
Style:
rom com, feel good, romantic comedy, existential, sad ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, time loop, fish out of water, time travel, childhood, misfit, rags to riches, alternate history, lost love, baseball coach, time jump, afterlife ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When Elena, a Russian immigrant studying in Miami and Carlos her Columbian boyfriend run out of legal options for staying in the U.S. the couple switch partners with Betty and Mike, an American couple who are also their best friends. All is well ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, green card, couple relations, mate swapping, switching roles, nothing goes right, immigrant, best friend, society, friendship, love and romance, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, miami
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Dirty Shame is the only bar in the small town of Paradise, Michigan. A burnt out, chain-smoking fortyish bar maid is the only waitress at The Dirty Shame. A group of local red necks conspiring to bring a mail order bride to their Midwest town ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good, independent film ...
Plot:
fish out of water, friendship, starting over, society, couples, love and romance, couple relations, culture clash, immigrant, husband wife relationship, mail order bride, countryside ...
Time:
90s
Place:
michigan, ukraine, usa, kiev ukraine
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Romantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling oranges on a street corner. One day a limousine pulls up and he is handed a check for $1,000,000 with instructions that he is to give the check back in ...
Style:
independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
chicano, family relations, community, restaurant, money, immigrant, disorder, mistaken identity, cons and scams, down on your luck, rich and poor, social differences ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
usa, mexico, los angeles, california, latin america
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot:
gangster, partner, crime gone awry, chases and races, dishonesty, friends, race against time, disorder, cons and scams, society, friendship, buddies ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
30%
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