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Odd Jobs (1986)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Four students who work on different jobs during their vacations in summer are tired of doing the same thing every year. Therefore they decide to open up a moving company together and confront themselves with the former boss of one of them.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gangsters, school, friendship, youth, college, friends, contests and competitions, partners, siblings relations, workplace, college life, buddies, dishonesty, cons and scams, workplace situations, student, summer, vacation, moving, car theft, ruse, loan shark, wrestler
Time:
80s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about friends, youth, college, friendship, partners, buddies and college life mostly in Comedy, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like Odd Jobs: Show Stoppers (2008), Kicking the Dog (2009), Cheats (2002), Trippin' (1999), Acceptance (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
"Show Stoppers" is a comedy-drama set in the world of Greek stepping on a historically black university in Virginia "where Greek steppers get as much attention as star athletes."
Style:
semi serious, humorous, emotional, sentimental, realistic
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
While other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher's report book, Handsome Davis sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind. That's why Handsome and his three best friends ...
Style:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Greg is near the end of his senior year in high school, wanting to go to the prom, eyeing Cinny (the school's beauty with brains) from afar, and regularly trippin', daydreaming about being a big success as a poet, a student, a lover. His ...
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
college, family relations, teenage life, obsessive quest, student life, optimism, youth, parents and children, college life, school, silly humor, friends
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, stylized
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
"Police Academy"-style comedy set in a military school. Two errant high-school students are ordered by a judge to spend a year at a prestigious military academy, where one of the cadets finds out who is responsible for a spate of midnight ...
Style:
parody, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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53%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The hilarious cast of Nora's Hair Salon is back in this outrageous, bust-a-gut comedy! Featuring familiar faces and fresh new names, Nora's Hair Salon 2: A Cut Above will have you cutting up all over again! As co-owner of Nora's Hair ...
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Time:
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50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Aaron Roman (Gores) is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action movie. When his father (Mantegna) grants Aaron his wish for his 18th birthday, he experiences the reality a bit hard to manage.
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Time:
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49%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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