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Mama's Family (1983)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Thelma Harper and her spinster sister Fran open their home to Thelma's recently divorced son Vinton and his teenage son and daughter. It's quite an adjustment for everyone, especially the cranky, argumentative Thelma.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
Audience:
kids
Plot:
women, family relations, dysfunctional family, friends, parents and children, family life, couples, teenage life, family problems, strong female presence, adult virgin, female friendship, widow, grandmother, female bonding, grandmother grandson relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship, mother son relationship, friendship between women, family, warner bros
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, florida
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, sitcom, realistic and semi serious films and TV series with plots about family relations, parents and children, couples, family life, friends, couple relations and strong female presence mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like Mama's Family: Crumbs (2006), Lotsa Luck (1973), Happy Family (2003), The Hotwives of Orlando (2014), Kate & Allie (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Crumbs is an American television sitcom starring Fred Savage and Jane Curtin that ran on ABC from January 12, 2006 to February 7, 2006. It also starred William Devane, Maggie Lawson and Eddie McClintock. The show's slogan is "The normal ...
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sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, family business, parents and children, hometown, restaurant, mother son relationship, gay interest, lgbt, loss of son, loss of sibling ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, connecticut
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Lotsa Luck is an American sitcom that aired during the 1973-74 television season. The series stars Dom DeLuise as bachelor Stanley Belmont who lives with his bossy mother, his sister Olive and her unemployed husband, Arthur. Jack Knight stars as ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Happy Family is an NBC sitcom that debuted in fall of 2003.
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sitcom, humorous, captivating, feel good, light ...
Audience:
family outing
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family relations, parents and children, leaving home, family life, family problems, suburbs, dentist, grownups, college dropout, dysfunctional family, children, dysfunctional character
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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A parody of one of the most popular franchises in reality television, “The Hotwives of Orlando,” takes you inside the uber-exclusive and glamorous world of six hot housewives livin’ large in Central Florida's sexiest city, Orlando. The ...
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parody, humorous, realistic, not serious, feel good ...
Plot:
family relations, female bonding, friends, couples, silly humor, strong female presence, parents and children, couple relations, thirtysomething life, husband wife relationship, friendship, female friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, florida, orlando florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Kate & Allie is an American television situation comedy which ran from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989. Kate & Allie first aired on CBS as a midseason replacement series and only six episodes were initially commissioned, but the favorable ...
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sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
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kids
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female friendship, single mother, family relations, single parent, friendship, roommate, thirtysomething life, friends, couples, battle of the sexes, gender, workplace ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Retired at 35 is an American sitcom on TV Land starring George Segal, Jessica Walter, Johnathan McClain, Josh McDermitt, Marissa Jaret Winokur and Ryan Michelle Bathe. It is the network's second original scripted series after Hot in Cleveland. ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Duration: 30 min.
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sitcom, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
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kids
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Place:
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85%
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Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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sitcom, realistic, humorous, not serious
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
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Davina and her husband Al try to revamp their lives as they struggle with the uncertainties of middle age.
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realistic, semi serious, humorous, sitcom, witty
Plot:
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Duration: 30 min.
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Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min.
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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The third time's the charm, they say, and reformed party girl Kate is hoping that's true when she becomes the third wife of a slightly older man, Pete. They fell into each others' arms (literally) at a karaoke bar, and flash forward a ...
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Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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81%
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81%
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couples, family relations, family problems, couple relations, lifestyle, parent child relationship, dysfunctional family, parents and children, marital problem, mother daughter relationship, satire, suburban life ...
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81%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
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Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Duration: 30 min.
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 30 min.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Time:
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