Movies like Holiday Reunion

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Holiday Reunion (2003)
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Holiday Reunion (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Against the ardent wishes of his wife, eleven-year-old son, and sixteen-year-old daughter, ALBERT SNIDER (Judge Reinhold) is determined to have a festive family holiday. Albert doesn't seem to realize that his kids would rather stick needles in their eyes then spend time with their stuffy dad, and his wife is equally fed up by their dull life. When he receives an invitation from his long lost cousin Woodrow (Bryan Cranston), he decides to take his family out to the country for a down-home family holiday. However, Cousin Woodrow and his family turn out to be nuttier than a holiday fruitcake! What follows is a full course meal of nonstop laughs and holiday hilarity when the neurotic 'burbs clash with the hippy hicks from hell in National Lampoon's most outrageous family misadventure yet!
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
Audience: family outing
Plot: thanksgiving, american football, family life, nothing goes right, disorder, eccentric family, misfit, family relations, suburban life, family gatherings, hippie, high school, holiday, cousin, family vacation, misadventure, chase, suburbs, animal life, silly humor, nudity, football, male nudity, redneck, free spirit ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: idaho

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and touching films with plots about family relations, family life, disorder, nothing goes right, parents and children, eccentric family and family problems mostly in Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Holiday Reunion: Jack and Jill (2011), Relative Strangers (2006), Madhouse (1990), Manna from Heaven (2002), Kabluey (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Jack and Jill (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, ...
Style: humorous, parody, not serious, slapstick, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: twins, twin brother and sister, thanksgiving, siblings relations, stupidity, happy ending, family relations, misfit, eccentric family, life turned upside down, looking for love, celebration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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Relative Strangers (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An uptight professional meets his lower-class biological parents for the first time.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, captivating, philosophical ...
Plot: odd couple, meet the parents, adoption, eccentric family, family life, parents and children, parent child relationship, nothing goes right, family gatherings, family problems, estrangement, disorder ...
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Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself - The Play (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: When Madea gets sick, her family comes to her aid. What they don't realize is that they're the ones who need her help. As always, Madea's cockeyed outlook on life saves the day and guarantees side-splitting laughs along the way.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic
Plot: eccentric family, family life, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, nothing goes right, family problems, fish out of water, goofy hero, madea, prison, prison life, siblings relations ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Madea's Big Happy Family The Play (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Shirley has important news for her family, but she has five grown children with different lifestyles and finds it difficult to get them and the kids all together. So in steps Madea, the Matriarch General, to put the family's life in perspective ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: family life, eccentric family, family problems, parents and children, family gatherings, madea, profanity, strong female presence, suburbs, terminal illness, siblings relations, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed in this black comedy.
Style: semi serious, witty, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family problems, siblings relations, betrayal, life is a bitch, dark humor, parents and children, terminal illness, eccentric family, family life, estate, siblings ...
Time: 80s
Place: texas
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44%
Together Again for the First Time (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: "Together Again for the First Time" tells the story of a blended family reuniting on Christmas Eve. It's the first time they've all been in the same house at the same time since the parent's marriage seven years ...
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, christmas comedy ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, family relations, family problems, couples, sibling relationship, society, rivalry, family gatherings, love and romance, family life, eccentric family, reunion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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44%
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Madhouse (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The luxurious villa of Mark and Jessie Bannister, a yuppie couple, is overrun by loads of uninvited guests who turn the house up side down.
Style: humorous, melancholic, semi serious, realistic, black comedy ...
Plot: uninvited guest, family gatherings, couples, eccentricity, pregnancy, family life, down on your luck, lifestyle, disorder, family problems, siblings relations, childhood ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Manna from Heaven (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was a just a loan and it's due immediately. Once upon a time, many years ago, a neighborhood in ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: family relations, friends, parents and children, family life, religions or cults, nothing goes right, love and romance, single parent, unlikely couple, buddies, cons and scams, eccentric family ...
Place: usa, new york
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Kabluey (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Leslie is left with few options when her husband is sent back to war in the Middle East. A modest amount of help arrives in the form of his brother, Salman, who is less than prepared to care for the couple's two preadolescent boys. When Leslie ...
Style: surreal, humorous, dark comedy, light, black comedy ...
Plot: life, dark humor, small town, single parent, parenthood, loneliness, workplace, family relations, family life, insanity, existentialism, greed ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Don's Analyst (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Don Vito Leoni, the Godfather, is clinically depressed. The world has changed and he hasn't. He'd like to retire, but if he left the "family business" to his two idiot sons, they'd be dead in a minute. So he decides to go ...
Style: not serious, realistic, cynical, clever, humorous ...
Plot: kidnapping, psychology, silly humor, profanity, family relations, disorder, abduction, nothing goes right, misfit, down on your luck, missing person, family life ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
A Madea Christmas (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: When a family meets for Christmas at their posh Cape Cod estate, family arguments and secrets cause a stir. It takes a real down-to-earth family - like Aunt Bam and the almighty Madea - to save this holiday.
Style: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
Plot: christmas, family relations, farce, family problems, unfulfillment, family gatherings, master and servant, parents and children, family life, estate, disorder, eccentric family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
A Song For Mama (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: With their beloved mother only a few days to live, her children decide to give her a surprising parting gift: bring Dave, a lifelong fan, to her bedside in the Ardennes. But even though everyone adores her, brothers, sister and brother-in-law are ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, offbeat
Plot: family relations, kidnapping, escapades, dysfunctional family, on the road, last wish, family problems, nothing goes right, obsessive quest, confined, disorder, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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42%
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Sherman's Way (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An eccentric Olympic has-been who prefers leisure to work, finds himself stuck with a rigid pre-law Yale student with no time for wasting time. Between skinny-dipping and stealing cars, this odd-couple learn from each other that balance is the key ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, touching ...
Plot: disorder, couples, friends, unlikely couple, introspection, lifestyle, nothing goes right, odd couple, youth, small town, eccentric family, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Tyler Perry's Aunt Bam's Place - The Play (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: One weekend, Aunt Bam's nephew-in-law Stewart is granted a court-ordered visitation with his children. Although his new, much-younger wife Mona is a bundle of nerves, Stewart seizes the opportunity to reconnect with his children, whom he loves ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family life, family problems, parents and children, disorder, strong female presence, couple relations, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, african american protagonist
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Beethoven's 3rd (2000)
Genre: Family, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Everyone's favorite St. Bernard returns in this family film about man's best friend. Richard Newton, his wife Beth and kids Brennan and Sara shove off in their camper for a road trip. Along the way, they gain a new passenger: slobbery ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, independent film, feel good
Audience: family friendly, kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: dog, human dog relationship, animal, pets, family relations, family life, silly humor, nothing goes right, escapades, parents and children, disorder, mischievous children ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
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42%
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Checking Out (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A famed stage actor reunites his family for a party, and plans to commit suicide after-wards, unless they are able to convince him not to.
Style: touching, realistic, humorous, sincere, spoof ...
Plot: elderly, family life, family gatherings, lifestyle, siblings relations, homecoming, family problems, actor's life, parents and children, life & death, aging, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Cleaver Family Reunion (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Members of a dysfunctional family settle their differences after a series of misadventures during their summer reunion
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, siblings relations, parents and children, eccentric family, family problems, nothing goes right, disorder, african american, black, family relations, silly humor, family gatherings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.3
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Raising Flagg (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A comedy centered on a handyman (Arkin) and his lifelong competition with his neighbor (Pendleton.)
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: parents and children, single parent, couple relations, betrayal, family relations, couples, friendship, eccentric family, family life, contests and competitions, small town, human nature ...
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Go, Masao! (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Go, Masao! describes the relationship between people and their dogs. Comedian Hideki Matsumoto and a labrador retriever named Masao are selected to appear on the travel corner segment of a TV animal program. Until Hideki Matsumoto and the labrador ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, feel good, realistic
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: unlikely partners, friends, ambition, animal life, rising to stardom, pets, partner, nothing goes right, disorder, human animal relationship, struggling actor, media ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A boy witnesses his mother kissing what he believes to be is the real Santa Clause and retaliates with mischief.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, exciting, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, single parent, family gatherings, fish out of water, family relations, disorder, couple relations, mischievous children, couples, nothing goes right ...
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41%
Love Thy Neighbor (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Suburbanites Danny and Linda try to overcome their various differences and try to get along after his wife and her husband run off with each other.
Style: realistic, semi serious, offbeat, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: adultery, infidelity, suburbs, bittersweet, family relations, family problems, couples, suburban life, family life, love affair, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: It is nearly a generation since we've visited Dobie Gillis, and the middle-aged Dobie is nothing like he was as a youth, having has sown all of his wild oats. He's settled into the predictable adult life, married to the reliable Zelda (who ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, sitcom, humorous ...
Plot: family relations, couples, single parent, criminal heroes, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, love and romance, buddies, love triangle, college, family life, high school ...
Time: 60s, 50s
Place: colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003)
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 ...
Style: funny, humorous, touching, satirical, hilarious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: childhood, youth, culture clash, family relations, nothing goes right, actor's life, child prodigy, parents and children, family life, disorder, kids and family, satire ...
Time: 2000s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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When Do We Eat? (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When Do We Eat? is the story of the "world's fastest Passover seder" gone horribly awry. It's about an old school dad (Michael Lerner) who's as tough on his sons as his father (Jack Klugman) is on him. On this night, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, independent film
Plot: ecstasy, dysfunctional family, family relations, food, parents and children, nothing goes right, youth, prank, couple relations, eccentric family, family life, family problems ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
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40%
A House of Your Dreams (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: On a mission to loosen up, a miser's sets about buying a house in the country for his family.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious
Plot: nothing goes right, family life, couple relations, couples, domestic disturbance, family problems, countryside, family in crisis, house, silly humor, crumbling marriage, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Even Stevens Movie (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Stevens think that they've won an all-expenses-paid trip to an island that's halfway around the world. When their house is destroyed, their food stolen, and their bacon eaten, the Stevens family breaks apart in front of all their ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, tropical, teen
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot: youth, family relations, family life, parents and children, teenage life, mischievous children, nothing goes right, disorder, island, siblings relations, brother sister relationship, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Acceptance (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: "Acceptance" is a movie that is equivalent of being slapped on the wrist by your mother for not being like everyone. Forget about being different from others and being yourself. In the movie it shows how crazy students and parents can get ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: college, college life, family relations, teenage life, student life, optimism, youth, parents and children, obsessive quest, campus, school, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Pooch and the Pauper (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The bulldog Liberty (who's thoughts we're able to hear) is the "First Dog of the USA", i.e. the president's dog. As such he has a lot of representative duties, but also many privileges which made him snobby and condescending ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, realistic
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: dog, bulldog, switching roles, comedy of errors, mistaken identity, fish out of water, disorder, family relations, misfit, odd couple, pets, getting home ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Passed Away (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A bunch of eccentric relatives gather for their patriarch's funeral.
Style: black comedy, laugh out loud, dark comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: funeral, family relations, pregnancy, midlife crisis, dark humor, family problems, couples, single parent, nothing goes right, love and romance, clergy, elderly ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Trailer Park Boys Xmas Special (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 57 min.
Story: In this holiday prequel, it’s 1997 and Sunnyvale Trailer Park is getting ready for the holiday season. Julian’s got a great idea to make money this Christmas, Ricky gets confused between God and Santa, and Bubbles tries to get the Boys together ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, mockumentary, light, not serious ...
Plot: christmas, nothing goes right, life is a bitch, friends, buddies, misfit, petty criminal, trailer park boys, holiday, underground, xmas, disorder ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: canada
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39%
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