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Growing Up Smith (2015)
2K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In 1979, an Indian family moves to America with hopes of living the American Dream. While their 10-year-old boy Smith falls head-over-heels for the girl next door, his desire to become a "good old boy" propels him further away from his family's ideals than ever before.
Style:
intercultural, sentimental, light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, multicultural, crying ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
first love, adolescence, halloween, bullying, father son relationship, nostalgia, vegetarian, culture clash, teenage girl, brother sister relationship, teenage boy, killing an animal, small town, deer hunting, boy with glasses, cultural difference, teenage life, teenager, troubled teen, mother son relationship, tradition, family tradition, cross cultural relations, teenage angst, teen romance ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, india, american
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Most similar movies to Growing Up Smith
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, touching and sentimental films with plots about friendship, coming of age, family relations, girl, teenager, youth and boy mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Growing Up Smith: My Girl (1991), Wonder (2017), Better Nate Than Ever (2022), Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns (1985), Measure of a Man (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
97K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, crying, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, kids, date night, family friendly ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, childhood, father daughter relationship, first love, children, single father, single parent, small town, kids and family, grief, teenager ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1972, year 1991, 20th century ...
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
100%
195K
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Style:
inspirational, touching, uplifting, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly
Plot:
bullying, friendship, school, child, happy ending, middle school, truancy, deformity, family relations, father son relationship, science teacher, disability ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, pennsylvania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
13-year-old Nate Foster has big Broadway dreams but there’s only one problem — he can’t even land a part in the school play. When his parents leave town, Nate and his best friend Libby sneak off to the Big Apple for a once-in-a-lifetime ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, feel good, entertaining, satirical ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
gay interest, nightmare, broadway, teenager, love, teenage boy, best friend, follow your dream, direction and purpose, coping, coming of age, music ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: East Germany
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The tale of young Gritta who lives with her father, an unsuccessful inventor. When her new stepmother tries to put her away in a convent she discovers some dark secrets there.
Style:
fairy tale, modern fairy tale
Audience:
kids
Plot:
tomboy, coming of age, rat, strong female character, runaway, children, monarchy, king, intrigue, runaway child, tough girl, first love ...
Time:
18th century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A bullied teen experiences a turning point summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.
Style:
captivating, humorous, light, sincere, independent film ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, bullying, coming of age, summer job, first love, family relations, self discovery, grownups, society, couples, bare chested male, male objectification ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york state
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid’s life – middle school! That won’t be easy, considering he’s surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies ...
Style:
funny, humorous, talky, surreal, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
middle school, childhood, child protagonist, teenager, peer pressure, coming of age, high school life, fat boy, boy, high school, bullying, child ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place:
guatemala, usa, new york, north america, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, touching, sad, uplifting ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
dog, coming of age, childhood, small town, child's point of view, childhood memory, friendship, animal, boy, american football, children, world war two ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa, oxford university
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the ...
Style:
entertaining, sincere, captivating, feel good, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
foster home, foster child, birth mother, bully, social services, friendship, soul mate, brother sister relationship, secret, mother daughter relationship, social worker, name calling ...
Place:
maryland
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
It's the story about seven very different best friends, and one summer that will bring them together like never before.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, lighthearted, sad ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot:
children, friendship, nanny, coming of age, childhood, camp, bullying, teenager, teenage life, parents and children, nothing goes right, siblings relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
connecticut, new york
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Havoc is created in a small Southern community when a 12-year-old shows up, causing a couple 13-year-old friends to fall in love with her, thus possibly jeopardizing their friendship.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, touching, feel good, independent film ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, coming of age, love triangle, friendship, small town, teenage love, teenage life, fall in love, social relations, society, mute, single mother ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1947
Place:
usa, chicago, alabama
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, light, period piece, intense ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, friendship, troublemaker, storytelling, haunted by the past, parents and children, teenage life, mentally challenged, love and romance, misfit, youth ...
Time:
70s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
new york, paris france, france, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
23%
113K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Rodriquez takes Smalls under his wing. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, teen, sweet, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family friendly, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
baseball, friendship, childhood, coming of age, dog, adolescence, boy, bullying, small town, child, children, kids and family ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1962, 90s, 50s ...
Place:
utah, california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
23%
22K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get ...
Style:
teen, touching, romantic, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
coming of age, child romance, female protagonist, pregnancy, self discovery, small town, happy ending, voice over narration, spring break, husband wife relationship, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 1974, year 1994, 90s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A recently-widowed, science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
Style:
sweet, touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
adoption, father son relationship, orphan, childhood trauma, imagination, writers, friendship, parenthood, youth, alien, children, single father ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Based on the New York Times best-selling novel by award winning author Wally Lamb. A vivid slice of 1960s life, Wishin' and Hopin' is a wise-and-witty holiday tale that celebrates where we've been-and how far we've come. In the ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sincere, light, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, christmas, youth, small town, substitute teacher, catholic school, teachers and students, parents and children, family relations, friendship, social relations, 10 year old ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place:
connecticut, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
Style:
sentimental, sad, emotional, compassionate, reflective ...
Plot:
african american, life philosophy, food, relationships, family bonds, friendship, interracial friendship, love story, childhood, life, cooking, cancer ...
Time:
70s, year 1971, 80s, year 1977, year 1980 ...
Place:
usa, boston, los angeles
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A feel-good comedy about the laughter, excitement and fun that come with being a kid! Joshua is a thoughtful 10-year-old looking for some simple answers to life's eternal questions. The problem is that no one - including his concerned parents ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, light, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, happy ending, religion, life philosophy, existentialism, boys' school, death in the family, teenage life, baseball, boy, friendship ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
philadelphia, usa, rome italy
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
What happens when three sets of BFF's become enemies?
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, teen, black comedy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage girl, teenage life, high school, teenager, friends, youth, friendship, computers and web, ambition, teenage boy, boy dog relationship, best friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. The bond between the girl and her special companion brings together the people in a small ...
Style:
sentimental, sweet, touching, light, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
small town, dog, father daughter relationship, childhood, children, animal, pets, loneliness, single father, adaptation, supermarket, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
florida, usa, southern usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Clifford Peach (Chris Makepeace), an easygoing teenager, is finding less than easy to fit in at his new high school, where a tough-talking bully (Matt Dillon) terrorizes his classmates and extorts their lunch money. Refusing to pay up, Clifford ...
Style:
realistic, entertaining, humorous, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenager, bodyguard, coming of age, school bully, grandmother grandson relationship, motorcycle, bully, boy, father son relationship, swimming pool, child protagonist ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
chicago, usa, california
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a national competition offers her a chance at her dream, to be recorded on NASA’s Golden Record, she recruits a makeshift troupe of Birdie Scouts, forging friendships that ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, captivating, funny, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
competition, girl, friendship, nasa, squad, women, mischievous children, teamwork, humour, teenage life, friends, parents and children ...
Time:
70s
Place:
georgia, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Simon Birch tells the story of Joe and Simon's heart-warming journey of friendship. Simon Birch was born with a condition that makes him much smaller than all the other kids in town. Now, due to his condition, Simon thinks God made him this way ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, sweet, touching, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, destiny, illegitimate son, friendship, happy ending, disability, small town, voice over narration, child protagonist, bus accident, boy, secret ...
Time:
1950s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1964 ...
Place:
maine
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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Story:
The Wonder Years is an American television comedy-drama created by Neal Marlens and Carol Black. It ran on ABC from 1988 through 1993. The pilot aired on January 31, 1988, following ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XXII.
The show achieved a spot ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sitcom, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, generation gap, childhood sweetheart, friends, coming of age, high school, first love, teenage life, dating, family relations, love and romance, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Kara and Jessie are two teenage girls from very different worlds, but with a little Christmas magic, they find they have much more in common than they ever imagined.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, entertaining, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing
Plot:
christmas, holiday, switching places, heartwarming, grandparents, parents and children, female protagonist, family relations, grandfather, grandmother, grandfather granddaughter relationship, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Place:
vermont
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Great Depression hits home for nine year old Kit Kittredge when her dad loses his business and leaves to find work. Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin stars as Kit, leading a splendid cast in the first ever "American Girl" theatrical movie. ...
Style:
sentimental, melancholic, stylized, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, girls' night, kids, pre-teens ...
Plot:
friendship, journalism, children, coming of age, youth, school, teacher, family relations, life philosophy, child, family life, follow your dream ...
Time:
1930s, year 1934, year 2008, 20th century
Place:
ohio, cincinnati ohio, usa, chicago, ireland ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to ...
Style:
touching, independent film, emotional, teen, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, cancer, adolescence, friendship, terminal illness, teenager, coming of age, dying, leukemia, friends, teenage boy, illness ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Lucas Simons has become obsessed with death following the loss of his older brother. A shy child, Lucas spends most of his free time filming funerals in an attempt to understand what happens when we die. When Lucas accidentally captures a mysterious ...
Style:
uplifting, exciting, captivating, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens, chick flick
Plot:
boy, affection, friendship, self discovery, child star, dancing, ghost story, grief, husband wife relationship, doctor, mentor, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, nashville tennessee, tennessee
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When an evil dictator threatens to take over the kingdom, Princess Rosalinda gets put into the Princess Protection Program. She is taken under the wing of General Joe Mason, an agent from the agency, and his daughter, Carter, who works after school ...
Style:
feel good, teen, humorous, romantic, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing, teens ...
Plot:
teenager, high school, princess, friendship, youth, teenage life, best friend, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, friends, school, royal family ...
Place:
louisiana, canada, california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) is looking for an escape from his family's stifling home life when he encounters Lee Carter (Will Poulter), the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of "Rambo: First Blood", Lee plans to make ...
Style:
touching, feel good, stylized, humorous, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
friendship, childhood, coming of age, filmmaking, friendship between boys, youth, bullying, small town, children, school, boy, family relations ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 80s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, ...
Style:
touching, feel good, emotional, teen, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, small town, women, childhood, adolescence vs adulthood, female friendship, youth, teenage life, adolescence, friends, children ...
Time:
90s, year 1970, year 1991, 70s, year 1995 ...
Place:
usa, indiana
Similarity:
19%
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