Movies like Trial and Error

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Trial and Error (1997)
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Trial and Error (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An actor poses as a lawyer to help his sick friend, and problems develop.
Style: humorous, light, melancholic, talky, feel good, not serious, romantic comedy, realistic, witty, independent film ...
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, legal, small town, fish out of water, legal action, nothing goes right, mistaken identity, comedy of errors, goofy hero, cons and scams, law, court, judge, farce, business, misfit, alcohol abuse, love and romance, couples, disorder, switching roles, small town life, dishonesty, gambling ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: nevada, usa, los angeles, new jersey
Keyword: gangsters, doctors

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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 love and romance, couples, disorder, dishonesty, fall in love, love and fish out of water mostly in Comedy, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Trial and Error: Out to Sea (1997), My Cousin Vinny (1992), Waking Up in Reno (2002), Mr. Deeds (2002), HouseSitter (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Out to Sea (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Care-free Charlie (Walter Matthau) cons his widower brother-in-law Herb (Jack Lemmon) into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies. The catch is that they are required to be dance hosts! With a tyrannical cruise director, and ...
Style: feel good, humorous, talky, light, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cruise ship, womanizer, cons and scams, partner, dishonesty, fall in love, love and romance, ship, solar eclipse, cruise, couples, senior citizen ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: florida, miami, mexico
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100%
 7.6
 139K
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his ...
Style: funny, feel good, hilarious, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: courtroom, courtroom drama, lawyer, court, trial, small town, legal, mistaken identity, murder, justice, false accusation, cousin cousin relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: alabama, new york, southern usa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Waking Up in Reno (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Candy and Lonnie Earl are just crazy about each other. The problem: she's married to Roy and he's married to Darlene. So far it's been a secret affair. But that's about to change, because this foursome is driving cross-country ...
Style: humorous, talky, funny, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: on the road, road trip, love and romance, unfulfillment, infidelity, buddies, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, couple relations, nothing goes right, partner, friends ...
Time: 20th century
Place: usa, arkansas, nevada, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 152K
Mr. Deeds (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for ...
Style: funny, entertaining, humorous, hilarious, romantic comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: inheritance, justice, love and romance, rags to riches, greed, happy ending, rise to the top, small town life, fall in love, dishonesty, disorder, betrayal ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new hampshire, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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HouseSitter (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis proposes marriage to his girlfriend, only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-night stand with a waitress, never imagining that a woman he slept with once would end up posing as ...
Style: romantic, light, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: small town, breakup, lie, house, love story, screwball, architect, divorce, life philosophy, writers, disorder, unlikely couple ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: usa, massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Deuce Bigalow is a less than attractive, down on his luck aquarium cleaner. One day he wrecks the house of a gigolo and needs quick money to repair it. The only way he can make it is to become a gigolo himself, taking on an unusual mix of female ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, sex comedy, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: stereotypes, stupidity, dumb, creativity, women, gigolo, goofy hero, comedy of errors, social misfits, dishonesty, tall woman, disability ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Luther Heggs aspires to being a reporter for his small town newspaper. He gets his big break when the editor asks him to spend the night at the Simmons mansion that, 20 years before, was the site of a now famous murder-suicide. Luther's account ...
Style: hilarious, funny, scary, spooky, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: haunted house, courtroom, murder mystery, ghost, small town, murder, haunted, court, reporter, courtroom drama, halloween, lawyer ...
Time: year 1966, 20th century, 60s
Place: kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Despite being well into adulthood, brothers Doug and Steve Butabi still live at home and work in the flower shop owned by their dad. They exist only to hit on women at discos, though they're routinely unsuccessful until a chance run-in with ...
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, cult classic, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: nightclub, dumb, buddies, brother brother relationship, misfit, father son relationship, marriage, love and romance, disorder, clubbing, stoner, friends ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Grumpier Old Men (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and Max. Meanwhile, a sultry Italian divorcée opens a restaurant at the local bait shop, alarming the locals who worry she'll scare the fish away. ...
Style: hilarious, funny, melancholic, suspense, humorous ...
Plot: fishing, fish, vengeance, friendship, wedding, prank, odd couple, single parent, disorder, parents and children, bait, partner ...
Time: 90s
Place: minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 2.2
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Lovemakers (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hungary, USA, UK, Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Small time Hungarian matchmakers get the job to make a Hollywood star fall in love with a Russian businessman's spoiled brat sister. They get one million dollars if they succeed, but if they fail, they will have to pay with their lives.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, offbeat ...
Plot: fall in love, disorder, comedy of errors, silly humor, dishonesty, cons and scams, mistaken identity, couples, rivalry, friendship, love and romance, high maintenance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Seems Like Old Times (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Writer Nick Gardenia is kidnapped from his California cliffhouse and forced to rob a bank. Now a fugitive, he seeks help from his ex, Glenda. She is a public defender remarried to a prosecutor, and we get a houseful of hijinks.
Style: humorous, sweet, entertaining, melancholic, feel good ...
Plot: bank robbery, farce, love triangle, dog, couple relations, dishonesty, bank teller, nothing goes right, on the run, love and romance, unlikely criminals, love affair ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 70s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 4.3
 9K
Jury Duty (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a murder trial. Once there, he does everything he can to prolong the trial and deliberations and make ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, not serious, witty ...
Plot: jury, unemployment, courtroom, hotel, murder trial, serial killer, stupidity, legal, lawyer, justice, life philosophy, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.0
 12K
Legal Eagles (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea's crimes is the theft of a very valuable ...
Style: melancholic, entertaining, realistic, humorous, suspenseful ...
Plot: courtroom, lawyer, legal, conspiracy, investigation, murder, dedicated lawyer, legal action, court case, cons and scams, couples, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.3
 754
Coming & Going (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Coming & Going is an irreverent romantic comedy that poses the question: How far would you go to capture the heart of the one you love? Lee (Rhys Darby) is a young, skilled OBGYN who lacks confidence when it comes to talking to women outside ...
Style: humorous, touching, feel good, light, independent film ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: disability, looking for love, disorder, misfit, lie, couples, friendship, thirtysomething life, social misfits, cons and scams, love and romance, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Secret of My Succe$s (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a ...
Style: feel good, light, realistic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, manly, family friendly, date night
Plot: business, rich and poor, office, workplace, mistaken identity, love triangle, ambition, rise to the top, fish out of water, farce, job promotion, office worker ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: new york, kansas, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.
Style: romantic, feel good, witty, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lawyer, battle of the sexes, opposites attract, infidelity, love at first sight, marriage, divorce, manipulation, screwball, dishonesty, adultery, farce ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
For Richer or Poorer (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Brad Sexton and his wife, Caroline, are wealthy New Yorkers with both marital and financial problems. The latter issue becomes a pressing matter when they discover that their accountant has embezzled millions and pinned the blame on them. Forced to ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, detective, fun ...
Plot: amish, fish out of water, embezzlement, lawyer, wealth, farce, marital reconciliation, marital discord, small town, true love, divorce, emancipation ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: pennsylvania, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Breakin' All the Rules (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Inspired by his fiancée (who dumped him), a man publishes a break-up handbook for men, becoming a bestselling author in the process.
Style: romantic comedy, romantic, entertaining, melancholic, talky ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: black, love triangle, breakup, looking for love, comedy of errors, friendship, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty, battle of the sexes, hip hop, dating ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Fathers' Day (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After Scott has a fight with his father and runs away and when his father refuses to go after him. His mother, Collette, then goes to one of her former boyfriends, Jack, a lawyer, and tells him that he's her son's real father. Jack ...
Style: humorous, inspirational, melancholic, road movie, feel good ...
Plot: odd couple, father son relationship, friendship, parenthood, misfit partners, parents and children, family relations, family problems, disorder, on the road, teenage life, transformation ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: california, san francisco, usa, sacramento california, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.8
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Tug (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A small town guy tries to decide between staying with his current girlfriend or going back to his psycho ex.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: love triangle, small town, couples, friends, rivalry, choice, love, ex girlfriend, dishonesty, friendship, disorder, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A successful veterinarian and radio show host with low self-esteem asks her model friend to impersonate her when a handsome man wants to see her.
Style: entertaining, touching, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience: date night, kids, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dog, love and romance, mistaken identity, model, radio, friendship, love story, happy ending, disorder, comedy of errors, women, relationships ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Laws of Attraction (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.
Style: romantic, light, not serious, talky, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: lawyer, workplace romance, opposites attract, divorce lawyer, couples, middle age romance, unlikely couple, legal, battle of the sexes, hotshot lawyer, urban, love story ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: ireland, new york, usa, yale university
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.4
 6K
Two Much (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A young gallerist is in love with two sisters at the same time. In order to solve the problem he decides to invent his own twin-brother.
Style: humorous, light, feel good, witty, anamorphic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: twins, farce, greed, art, love triangle, switching roles, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, wooing, nothing goes right, hidden identity, screwball ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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What Rats Won't Do (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Soon to be married lawyer Kate Beckenham has landed the case of a lifetime. Her courtroom opponent turns out to be the charming Jack Sullivan, who has never lost a single case.
Style: sweet, romantic comedy, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: lawyer, happy ending, love, trial, law, couples, power relations, love and romance, hotshot lawyer, society, rivalry, opposites attract ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.5
 245K
Legally Blonde (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Elle Woods has it all. She's the president of her sorority, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and, above all, a natural blonde. She dates the cutest fraternity boy on campus and wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner ...
Style: feel good, light, sweet, funny, romantic comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids ...
Plot: lawyer, girl power, sorority, fashion, blonde, law school, college, law, university, trial, believe in yourself, law student ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, boston, massachusetts, los angeles, harvard university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.4
 2K
Mr. Fix It (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lance Valenteen (David Boreanaz) makes a living as "Mr. Fix It," a man who gets hired by men that have just recently been dumped by their girlfriend. Lance dates the guys' ex-girlfriend and becomes the worst date possible, sending the ...
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, not serious, rom com
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: deception, fall in love, couples, wooing, cons and scams, love and romance, dishonesty, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, cupid, blonde, voyeur, voyeurism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Career Opportunities (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalized after she falls asleep in a Target dressing room. She awakens to find herself locked in the ...
Style: realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, funny ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: unlikely couple, hottie, dream girl, coming of age, small town, forbidden love, couples, teenage love, misfit, goofy hero, friends, disorder ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.4
 5K
Peeples (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story follows what happens when a child psychologist surprises his girlfriend by showing up at her political family's annual get-together at their Sag Harbor vacation home only to find them desperately in need of therapy.
Style: humorous, not serious, entertaining, feel good, black comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: eccentric family, black, nothing goes right, family gatherings, fish out of water, couple relations, family relations, couples, disorder, african american, black girl, blaxploitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.1
 1K
Just Write (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress.
Style: witty, feel good, semi serious, humorous, inspirational ...
Audience: date night
Plot: hollywood, love and romance, showbiz, dishonesty, comedy of errors, mistaken identity, social differences, bus, writers, actress, hidden identity, fall in love ...
Time: 90s
Place: beverly hills, california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
My Boss's Daughter (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When a young man agrees to housesit for his boss, he thinks it'll be the perfect opportunity to get close to the woman he desperately has a crush on – his boss's daughter. But he doesn't plan on the long line of other houseguests ...
Style: parody, humorous, not serious, sexy, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: fish out of water, workplace, boss and employee, stupidity, dumb, father daughter relationship, goofy hero, misfit, disorder, looking for love, obnoxious boss, estate ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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