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Just 45 Minutes from Broadway (2012)
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Just 45 Minutes from Broadway (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Stinging from the latest of several romantic break-ups, Pandora Isaacs (Tanna Frederick) retreats to the safety of her parents’ ramshackle upstate country house — just 45 minutes from Broadway— where her non-theatrical sister (Julie Davis) and her sister's fiance, a real- estate executive, (Judd Nelson) are also arriving for the weekend and the family's yearly Passover Seder. Family secrets, sibling rivalries, theatrical hysterics and the possibility of true love as rare as a blue bullfrog all emerge.
Style: independent film
Plot: house, dysfunctional family, rivalry, neurosis, family reunited, improv, jewish family, stage, cabin

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, independent film and realistic films with plots about dysfunctional family, family relations, couples, family problems, parents and children, family reunited and love and romance mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Just 45 Minutes from Broadway: Ovation (2015), Queen of the Lot (2010), Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995), Hollywood Dreams (2006), Irene in Time (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ovation (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In this follow up to 'Hollywood Dreams' and 'Queen of the Lot', cheerful and neurotic actress Maggie Chase has cut some of her losses and focuses her acting career at local theater in West Hollywood. Still employed by her acting ...
Style: independent film
Plot: discussion, actor, stage actress, improv, play
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Queen of the Lot (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two things she craves the most: real fame and true love. With more "Google points" than her ...
Style: talky, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: actor's life, showbiz, bittersweet, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, alcohol abuse, love triangle, paparazzi, unstoppable, couples, hopes, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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83%
Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Filmed entirely on location in East Hampton, Long Island, "Last Summer in the Hamptons" concerns a large theatrical family spending the last weekend of their summer together at the decades-old family retreat which economic circumstances ...
Style: independent film, talky, clever, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, death in the family, matriarchy, theatre group, theatrical troupe, actor, anton chekhov, theatre play, family home, playwright, theatre director, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Hollywood Dreams (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The tale of a young girl fresh off the bus from Iowa, who falls in love with a sexy and promising young actor, though their relationship threatens to complicate her own obsessive goal of becoming a famous actress. The film perfectly captures the ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, psychological, emotional, sex comedy ...
Plot: hollywood, artists and showbiz, fall in love, desire for fame, showbiz, filmmaking, fish out of water, actor, producer, audition, couples, disorder ...
Time: year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Irene in Time (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A film about the complex relationships between fathers and daughters, and the potential lifelong consequences of those relationships.
Style: talky, serious, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: haunted by the past, looking for love, couples, family relations, couple relations, introspection, strong female presence, sexual content, parents and children, hopes, dating, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
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New Year's Day (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A man returns to his sublet apartment to find the previous tenants, three offbeat young women, still in residence, under the mistaken belief that they have the apartment until the end of New Year's Day.
Style: heartfelt, independent film
Plot: nudity, womanizer, estrangement, friendship, existentialism, compassion, gay friend, caught cheating, lesbian, female friendship, roommate, love interest ...
Time: year 1989
Place: new york
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54%
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Eating (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: At a spacious house in Los Angeles, Helene is turning 40-years old and her friends whom include French filmmaker Martine, house guest Sophie, and Lydia throw her a party. But also there is Kate a friend turning 30, and Sadie a Hollywood film agent ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
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40%
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The Lears (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A modern take on William Shakespeare's King Lear.
Style: humorous, entertaining, dramatic, funny, captivating ...
Plot: family conflict, dysfunctional family, large family, architect, family relations, couples, kids and family, conflict, relationships, couple relations, family holiday, family reunited ...
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37%
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The Breakfast Club (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
Style: teen, talky, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, teenage angst, youth, adolescence, high school life, teen angst, teenage girl, adolescence vs adulthood, brat pack ...
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36%
Another Happy Day (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
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34%
The Meyerowitz Stories (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.
Style: captivating, humorous, sincere, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
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Time: year 2017
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31%
This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and ...
Style: touching, humorous, independent film, emotional, melancholic ...
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Duration: 83 min.
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Style: semi serious, psychological, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
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Duration: 109 min.
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Duration: 102 min.
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Eulogy (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
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Style: dark comedy, black comedy, absurd, stylized, cynical ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, realistic, clever ...
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August: Osage County (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 121 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
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Audience: boys' night, teens, date night
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 274
Quitters (2015)
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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24%
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Bark! (2002)
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Country: USA
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22%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After losing his wife and three kids, all Kyle wants is to mourn in peace. Unfortunately, his family insists on helping him.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating
Plot: family conflict, dysfunctional family, isolation, family drama, funeral, death, depression, family relations, one location
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.1
 54K
Parenthood (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
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Style: touching, humorous, realistic, funny, emotional ...
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Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: missouri, st. louis missouri
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22%
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