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Why Him? (2016)
134K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A dad forms a bitter rivalry with his daughter's young rich boyfriend.
Style:
funny, entertaining, feel good, light, hilarious, humorous, sincere, absurd, rom com, parody ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
holiday, happy ending, christmas, awkward situation, parenthood, billionaire, daughter, father, technology, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family relations, destiny, birthday party, male objectification, father daughter relationship, hipster, moral ambiguity, dumb, male protagonist, foul language, entrepreneur, stoner, entrepreneurship, love, new year ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
usa, california
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Most similar movies to Why Him?
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, funny, entertaining and feel good films with plots about family relations, family, happy ending, adaptation, dialogue, friendship and pornography mostly in Comedy, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like Why Him?: Daddy's Home 2 (2017), Daddy's Home (2015), Life of the Party (2018), Grown Ups (2010), Grown Ups 2 (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Brad and Dusty must deal with their intrusive fathers during the holidays.
Style:
light, funny, saga, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, holiday, father son relationship, children, father and son, ex husband ex wife relationship, husband wife relationship, awkward situation, father son conflict, relationships, parents and children, family relations ...
Time:
year 2017
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story of a mild-mannered radio executive (Ferrell) who strives to become the best stepdad ever to his wife's two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling, freeloading real father arrives, forcing stepdad to compete for the ...
Style:
funny, entertaining, sweet, satirical, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
father, children, uninhibited rivalry, dumb, christmas, kids and family, parenting, stepfather stepson relationship, parents, step parent, bullying, divorce ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s
Place:
louisiana, new orleans
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Dumped by her husband, longtime housewife Deanna turns regret into reset by going back to college. Winding up at the same school as her daughter, Deanna plunges headlong into the campus experience – embracing fun, freedom and frat boys.
Style:
funny, realistic, humorous, light, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sorority, college, divorce, daughter, housewife, human spirit, starting over, friends, education, mother and daughter, party, family relations ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, buddy comedy, hilarious ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, teens
Plot:
vacation, foul language, friendship, old friends reunited, kids and family, friends, reunited friends, breast feeding, family life, childhood, group of friends, buddy ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, year 1978, 2000s, 70s ...
Place:
boston, usa, hawaii, new jersey
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The all-star comedy cast from Grown Ups returns (with some exciting new additions) for more summertime laughs. Lenny (Adam Sandler) has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are ...
Style:
humorous, hilarious, funny, feel good, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
friendship, stupidity, adulthood, friends, party, sexual attraction, family relations, unlikely friendships, midlife crisis, parenthood, buddy, ex classmate ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When three overworked and under-appreciated moms are pushed beyond their limits, they ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long overdue freedom, fun, and comedic self-indulgence.
Style:
feel good, funny, sexy, teen, buddy comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
women, motherhood, infidelity, female friendship, party, single father, single mother, drunken woman, supermarket, friendship, school principal, profanity ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
chicago, california
Similarity:
75%
344K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A couple with a newborn baby face unexpected difficulties after they are forced to live next to a fraternity house.
Style:
funny, not serious, entertaining, humorous, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
youth, stupidity, friendship, satire, high school, plan gone awry, fraternity, friends, manipulation, revenge, drinking, male objectification ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 1930s, 70s, 80s ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, India
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When his uptight CEO sister threatens to shut down his branch, the branch manager throws an epic Christmas party in order to land a big client and save the day, but the party gets way out of hand.
Style:
funny, entertaining, sexy, hilarious, humorous ...
Plot:
christmas, christmas party, stupidity, wild party, debauchery, holiday, workplace, office, cocaine, ceo, party, farce ...
Time:
year 2016, future
Place:
chicago, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When one school teacher gets the other fired, he is challenged to an after-school fight.
Style:
entertaining, light, humorous, raunchy comedy, experimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, foul language, high school teacher, teacher, prank, last day of school, dumb, school bully, revenge, pregnant woman, masturbation, civil war ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
georgia, tokyo
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.
Style:
funny, inspirational, humorous, light, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
workplace, career, computers and web, starting over, new job, rivalry, boss and employee, sarcasm, middle aged, lifestyle change, fish out of water, programmer ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, san francisco, usa, north america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
Nickelodeon stars feature in vignettes and musical numbers about holiday custom's, all within a larger wrap-around story,
Style:
feel good, entertaining, satirical, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
holiday, trap, christmas, contests and competitions, rivalry, celebrity, competitor, satire, celebration, friendship, teamwork, winter ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Mike and Dave are young, adventurous, fun-loving brothers who tend to get out of control at family gatherings. When their sister Jeanie reveals her Hawaiian wedding plans, the rest of the Stangles insist that the brothers bring respectable dates. ...
Style:
funny, sex comedy, humorous, rom com, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
wedding, erotic massage, sex scene, sexual attraction, topless woman, foul language, stupidity, sexual humor, public nudity, masseuse, caught having sex, female masturbation ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
hawaii, oceania
Similarity:
83%
160K
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
For one month every year, five highly competitive friends hit the ground running in a no-holds-barred game of tag they’ve been playing since the first grade. This year, the game coincides with the wedding of their only undefeated player, which ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
group of friends, wedding, chase, escapades, rivalry, buddies, lifestyle, friendship, game, friendship between men, male friendship, mission ...
Time:
2010s, year 1983, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, denver colorado, portland oregon
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The parents of a soon-to-be married couple make the final preparations for the wedding ceremony.
Style:
humorous, light, feel good, funny, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
wedding, happy ending, family relations, parents and children, friendship, disorder, wedding party, dialogue, love and romance, doctor, youth, escapades ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Amy, Kiki and Carla – three under-appreciated and over-burdened women – rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for mothers: Christmas. And if creating a more perfect holiday for their families wasn’t hard enough, they ...
Style:
buddy comedy, sexy, funny, saga, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
christmas, mother daughter relationship, female friendship, holiday, female protagonist, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, strip show, woman, single mother, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, winter, christmas eve ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A gambling addict faces a conflict when entrusted with keeping a bunch of money that isn't his.
Style:
sincere, humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
gambling addiction, gambler, addiction, obsession, friendship, rivalry, ambition, adaptation, escapades, danger, society, happy ending ...
Time:
year 2017
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After a small misunderstanding aboard an airplane escalates out of control, timid businessman Dave Buznik is ordered by the court to undergo anger management therapy at the hands of specialist Dr. Buddy Rydell. But when Buddy steps up his aggressive ...
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, neurotic, hilarious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, family friendly
Plot:
reluctant partners, bullying, therapist, twists and turns, life philosophy, anger, rage, doctors and patients, trauma, prostitution, sexual attraction, airplane ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, boston, bronx new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
50K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.
Style:
parody, humorous, absurd, rom com, hilarious ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing
Plot:
business, foul language, betrayal, stupidity, women, stereotypes, redemption, adaptation, female protagonist, greed, prison, fired from the job ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
50%
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87K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Fed up with being single on holidays, two strangers agree to be each other's platonic plus-ones all year long, only to catch real feelings along the way.
Style:
romantic, funny, light, feel good, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
christmas, new year's eve, love, happy ending, holiday, fall in love, opposites attract, single, dating, ex boyfriend, chance meeting, romantic friendship ...
Time:
2020s, labor day, 21st century
Place:
chicago, illinois
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A store decides to start a contest to sell off 60,000 Christmas lights, ordered by accident. The competition soon causes unrest among the locals, but the store's owner, Diane, wants to keep what has become a very profitable competition going, ...
Style:
romantic, entertaining, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, family relations, happy ending, couple relations, holiday, transformation, contests and competitions, escapades, lifestyle, society, love and romance, social relations ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two college grads return to their hometown, where a hypothetical question -- whose dad would win in a fight? -- leads to mass mayhem.
Style:
humorous, funny, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, young couple, father son relationship, fistfight, dispute, best friend, dark humor, youth, friendship, humour, father, male nudity ...
Similarity:
28%
120K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
As an idle, good-natured bachelor, Uncle Buck is the last person you would think of to watch the kids. However, during a family crisis, he is suddenly left in charge of his nephew and nieces. Unaccustomed to suburban life, fun-loving Uncle Buck soon ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, light, touching ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, happy ending, family values, child care, when the parents are away, parents and children, babysitter, fish out of water, respect, mischievous children, siblings relations, babysitting ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, illinois, minnesota, wisconsin, usa ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Under the guise of a journalist, Campbell has a chance to get to know her biological father for the first time – without him ever knowing who she really is. As she spends time with him and his family, as well as with the town’s record keeper, ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, light, sincere, funny ...
Plot:
christmas, biological father, holiday, family relations, uncover truth, absent father, learning the truth, father, daughter, estranged father, obese woman, father figure ...
Place:
louisiana
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Four sisters – Caroline, Joanna, Paulina, and Vicky – reunite for the Christmas Holiday in a Yorkshire mansion. However, their estranged father, James, joins in for the first time since he left the family behind decades prior. The group attempts ...
Style:
satirical, entertaining, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
christmas, sister sister relationship, mansion, family relations, father daughter relationship, family reunited, satire, father and daughter, male female relationship, humour, sisters, holiday ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
AAA can't help the roadside emergency that is the JOHNSON FAMILY VACATION. Even the on-board navigation system has a meltdown on Nate Johnson and his family's cross-country trek to their annual family reunion/grudge match. Reluctantly ...
Style:
sexy, funny, humorous, black comedy, road movie ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
interracial romance, teenager, road trip, nothing goes right, hip hop, family relations, on the road, eccentric family, family life, mischievous children, parents and children, black ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, missouri, los angeles
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
While a curse chase two brothers in the Nile a father and daughter together with another dysfunctional family aboard a cruise to crash in an adventure full of fun ...
Style:
light, funny, feel good, satirical, humorous ...
Plot:
cruise ship, misunderstanding, father daughter relationship, family relations, brother brother relationship, multiple storylines, curse, humour, father and daughter, dysfunctional family, satire, toilet humor ...
Place:
rome italy, egypt
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Joanna’s plans for a quiet, cozy holiday season are shattered when her sisters call with the news that their dad has been dumped by his fiancée and has disappeared to Nevis, a tiny Caribbean island, and is not responding to any calls. The sisters ...
Style:
light, humorous, funny, exciting, entertaining ...
Plot:
island, christmas, father daughter relationship, sisters, beach, holiday, yoga, father, missing father, cancer, sister sister relationship, heartwarming ...
Place:
caribbean, london
Similarity:
25%
74K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two overworked assistants with nasty bosses try to get their supervisors out of their hair.
Style:
romantic, humorous, entertaining, rom com, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
happy ending, fall in love, employer employee relationship, love and romance, enemies to lovers, dating, boss, assistant, new york yankees, plan, coming of age, love ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
25%
314K
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander, VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic "he's so hot right now" Hansel scooters in to steal this year's award. The evil fashion guru Mugatu seizes the ...
Style:
funny, hilarious, humorous, parody, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
conspiracy, fashion model, male model, dumb, satire, brainwashing, orgy, assassination, seduction, fashion, stoner, fame ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, malaysia, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The original traditional one-hundred-percent red-blooded two-fisted all-american christmas continues five years later with Ralphie, Randy mom and the old man. This time Ralphie has his eyes fixed on a car. But trouble is sure to follow.
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
christmas, family life, holiday, eccentric family, youth, coming of age, christmas time, happy ending, teaching the ways of the world, love, escapades, destiny ...
Time:
year 1946, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
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