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Chump Change (2000)
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A failed Hollywood actor returns to his home town in Wisconsin and reminisces about his life in L.A. to a potential new girlfriend about his faults, auditions, misadventures, and confrontations with the evils of Hollywood.
Style:
humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, offbeat
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, rise to the top, ambition, rise and fall, nothing goes right, desire for fame, obsession, love and romance, showbiz, looking for love, actor's life, disorder, homecoming, downfall, fashion, silly humor, underdog, comedy of errors, friends, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, screenwriter, satire, limousine ...
Time:
90s
Place:
wisconsin, iceland, los angeles, california, milwaukee wisconsin
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and witty films with plots about artists and showbiz, love and romance, filmmaking, showbiz, lifestyle, hollywood and actor's life mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Chump Change: Just Write (1997), Unemployed (2008), Hollywood Dreams (2006), Amelia's 25th (2013), Not Another Not Another Movie (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Aspiring actress Amelia begins her 25th birthday by breaking up with her boyfriend, and things only go downhill from there. After visiting a dubious psychic for advice, Amelia sets off on a bizarre adventure to find money for rent and possibly love.
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realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental
Plot:
hollywood, actor's life, introspection, hopes, artists and showbiz, ambition, twentysomething life, follow your dream, coming of age
Time:
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Place:
california, usa, los angeles
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When the industry's two biggest stuntmen are nominated for Stuntman of the Year, an over-ambitious documentarian reignites a dormant rivalry between the two men that results in an all out press war.
Style:
realistic, rough, humorous, semi serious, exciting
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The film follows the story of Jamie, a struggling butch lesbian actress who gets cast as a man in a film. The main plot is a romantic comedy between Jamie's male alter-ego, "Male Jamie," and Jill, a heterosexual woman on set. The ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
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