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The Peanut Butter Solution (1985)
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two friendly ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael loses all of his hair when he gets a fright and uses the potion to get his hair back, but too much peanut butter causes things to get a bit hairy.
Style:
surreal, suspense, disturbing, creepy, cult classic, mind bending, psychedelic, stylized, spooky, independent film ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
ghost, bullying, magic, supernatural, youth, children, teacher, kidnapping, surrealism, food, hate, hair, child, coming of age, body horror, supernatural horror, magic realism, friendship, child kidnapping, friends, imaginary, mischievous children, disorder, curses spells and rituals, dog ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada
Keyword:
net, canadian, blender, dreams
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, offbeat and feel good films with plots about youth, family relations, friendship, disorder, friends, mischievous children and danger mostly in Family, Fantasy and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Peanut Butter Solution: Little Monsters (1989), Gooby (2009), Kids World (2000), Kids of the Round Table (1995), The Cat in the Hat (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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978
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Conrad and Sally Walden are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat walks in the front door. He introduces them to their imagination, and at first it's all fun and games, until ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Story:
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