Movies and TV shows like Drop Dead Diva
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Drop Dead Diva (2009)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A shallow model suddenly dies in an accident only to find her soul resurfacing in the body of a brilliant, plus-sized attorney.
Style:
sentimental, touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, light, captivating, sweet, sitcom
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
body swapping, law firm, afterlife, reincarnation, lawyer, overweight, supernatural, fat girl, angel, model, life after death, back from the dead, self discovery, self esteem, dignity, hidden identity, human nature, one more chance, dishonesty, women, friendship, supernatural power, female lawyer, lost love, coworker relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and feel good films and TV series with plots about friendship, women, family relations, friends, lawyer, workplace and workplace situations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Drop Dead Diva: Boston Legal (2004), Eli Stone (2008), Ally McBeal (1997), Suits (2011), Devious Maids (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
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Boston Legal is an American legal dramedy created by David E. Kelley and produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for ABC. The series aired from October 3, 2004, to December 8, 2008.
Boston Legal is a spin-off of long-running Kelley ...
Style:
witty, semi serious, humorous, thought provoking, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
law firm, hotshot lawyer, lawyer, courtroom drama, ethics, partners, friendship between men, society, idealism, workplace, civil rights, friendship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Eli Stone is an American legal comedy-drama TV series, named for its title character. The series follows Stone, a San Francisco lawyer who begins to have hallucinations, which leads him to two possible conclusions: a potentially fatal brain ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, surreal, feel good ...
Plot:
lawyer, legal, court, lawyers and clients, courtroom drama, self discovery, dedicated lawyer, uptight character, power relations, family relations, siblings relations, good deed ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Ally McBeal is an American legal comedy-drama television series, originally aired on Fox from September 8, 1997 to May 20, 2002. Created by David E. Kelley, the series stars Calista Flockhart in the title role as a young lawyer working in the ...
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talky, sentimental, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lawyer, legal, law firm, roommate, lust, female protagonist, seduction, workplace, workplace romance, workplace situations, friendship, legal action ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
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While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips into a job interview with one of New York City's best legal closers, Harvey Specter. Tired of cookie-cutter law school grads, Harvey takes a gamble by ...
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captivating, stylized, witty, serious, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, date night, family outing
Plot:
lawyer, law firm, legal, hotshot lawyer, photographic memory, boss, ambition, success, mastermind, corporate world, workplace situations, ambitious ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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The series centers on four Latina maids working in the homes of Beverly Hills’ wealthiest and most powerful families, and a newcomer who made it personal after a maid was murdered and determined to uncover the truth behind her demise, and in the ...
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exciting, captivating, humorous, enigmatic, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
couple relations, murder, secret, maid, secrets, female protagonist, female friendship, deception, latina, love, latinx lead, workplace situations ...
Place:
beverly hills
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
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Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to ...
Style:
sitcom, touching, humorous, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
afterlife, karma, ethics, paradise, utopia, self sacrifice, deception, death, female protagonist, heaven, hell, morality ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
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Life After Fat is a comedy-drama web series filmed in New York City, focusing on Maddie, a 24 year old thrift store employee who loses 90 lbs over the course of a year. For the first time in her life, she feels noticed, and attractive, which ends up ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sincere, touching, tragicomedy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
self discovery, physical appearance, city life, feminism, women, self esteem, weight loss, introspection, fat woman, strong female presence, twentysomething life, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
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Huge is a short lived American drama series that aired on the ABC Family television network. The series is based on the young-adult novel of the same name by Sasha Paley. The hour-long drama series revolves around eight teens sent to a summer weight ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, sentimental, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
overweight, fat girl, teenage girl, weight loss, self discovery, social relations, youth, love and romance, misfit, friendship, teenage love, physical appearance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Cassie Nightingale, Middleton’s favorite enchantress, and her young-teenage daughter Grace, who shares that same special intuition as her mom, welcome Dr. Sam Radford and his son to town. When the New York transplants move in next to the Grey ...
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feel good, touching, semi serious, light, colourful ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
witch, small town, supernatural, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, mysterious character, social relations, teenage life, friendship, single parent, youth, strong female lead ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A businessman is reunited with the four lost souls who were his guardian angels during childhood, all with a particular purpose to joining the afterlife.
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feel good, touching, sentimental, humorous, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot:
afterlife, angel, ghost, supernatural, fear of commitment, friendship, love, happy ending, life philosophy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, imaginary friend, death ...
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80s, 50s, year 1959, 20th century, 60s ...
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san francisco
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TV series like Gilmore Girls
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story:
Kate Reed is a firm believer that justice can always be found--even if it's not always in the courtroom. Once a lawyer at her family's esteemed San Francisco firm, Kate's frustration with the legal system led her to a new career as a ...
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serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
female lawyer, lawyer, law firm, legal, family relations, power relations, workplace, starting over, introspection, career change, parents and children, workplace situations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial consulting firm.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, light, humorous
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, investigation, jury, workplace situations, research, human nature, psychologist, leader, legal, outsmarting, manipulation ...
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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When they're not hanging out at their favorite hot dog stand pontificating on what they'd go through to enjoy a night with their favorite female celebrities, Jared Franklin and Peter Bash are chasing down their latest clients...sometimes ...
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semi serious, realistic, humorous, exciting, touching ...
Plot:
law firm, lawyer, dedicated lawyer, legal, courtroom, court, workplace situations, courtroom drama, friends, power relations, young man, ambitious ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story:
Television lawyer Dean Sanderson moves back to his small home town after his hit series, "The Grinder," is canceled thinking his time on TV qualifies him to run his family's law firm.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, captivating, feel good, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lawyer, law firm, family business, brother brother relationship, satire, career change, escapades, family relations, attorney, career, getting home, ambition ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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The series begins with Becca on the eve of her second wedding. It all seems perfect this time around, but she is still plagued by doubt. What if she could fix everything, and make the 'right' choices this time? Becca finds herself thinking ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
changing the past or future, introspection, friendship, time travel, couple relations, starting over, hopes, best friends, couples, bittersweet, self discovery, looking for love ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york
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Series like Boston Legal
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Related is an American comedy-drama series that aired on The WB network during the 2005-2006 television season. It revolved around the lives of four close-knit sisters - of Italian descent, raised in Brooklyn - living in New York City.
The show was ...
Style:
touching, humorous, captivating, light, sexy ...
Plot:
sibling relationship, family relations, eccentric family, everyday life, looking for love, city life, sister sister relationship, workaholic, friendship, rivalry, society, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
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20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
In the unreal world of Sacred Heart Hospital, John "J.D" Dorian learns the ways of medicine, friendship and life.
Style:
sitcom, witty, humorous, surreal, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hospital, doctor, medical, workplace situations, workplace romance, doctors and patients, friendship, love and romance, friends, workplace, nurse, roommate ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
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Jane by Design is an American comedy-drama television series on ABC Family. The series followed the life of Jane Quimby, a teenager who had to be mistaken for an adult to finally get her fashion dream job and work with a world-famous designer, Gray ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, light
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
fashion, designer, teenage life, workplace, double life, coworker, teenage girl, lifestyle, popularity, female protagonist, working woman, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Miss Match is a 2003 American television series created by Jeff Rake and Darren Star and produced by Twentieth Century Fox, Darren Star Productions and Imagine Entertainment. It aired in the U.S. on NBC, Australia on Network Seven, Arena and FOX8, ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
matchmaking, workplace romance, couples, looking for love, lawyer, family relations, lifestyle, workplace, parents and children, workplace situations, legal, women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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I Just Want My Pants Back is an American comedy-drama that premiered with a special sneak peek on August 28, 2011 on MTV, with the series airing the new episodes beginning on February 2, 2012. The series is based on David J. Rosen's 2007 novel ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, feel good
Audience:
teens
Plot:
young adult, youth, friends, friendship, sexual content, love and romance, looking for sex, adolescence vs adulthood, city life, twentysomething life, lifestyle, city ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Starved is an FX Network television situation comedy that aired for one season of seven episodes in 2005. The series was about four friends who each suffer from eating disorders, who met at a "shame-based" support group called Belt ...
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humorous, sitcom, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
mental illness, support group, friendship, physical appearance, obsession, misfit, dishonesty, lifestyle, society, dark humor, stock broker, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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State of Grace is an American comedy-drama series that ran for two seasons on the Fox Network's Fox Family channel during 2001 and 2002.
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semi serious, humorous, sentimental, touching, sitcom ...
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friendship, teenage life, jewish family, family relations, youth, family life, child protagonist, teenager, friends, protective parent, best friends, coming of age ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
north carolina, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
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Nina is a dedicated, career driven corporate attorney who has a very public nervous breakdown after getting passed up for an expected promotion and now finds herself working as a public defender. Her personal and professional worlds are turned ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sitcom, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
workplace, legal, lawyer, workplace situations, disorder, life turned upside down, power relations, courtroom, love and romance, courtroom drama, disney, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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18%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
When Stella finds out her terminal cancer is cured, she's going to have to learn to live with all the choices she's made when she decided to "live like she was dying".
Style:
humorous, sentimental, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
cancer, changing lives, adaptation, husband wife relationship, friendship, love and romance, healing, relationships, life turned upside down, new life, lifestyle change, mother daughter relationship ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a different part of the social universe with his nerdy friends (the "geeks").
Style:
humorous, light, semi serious, sitcom, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
nerd, teenager, social misfits, coming of age, weed, socially awkward, cheerleader, friendship, social relations, teenage life, teacher, teacher student relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1981, year 1980, 80s
Place:
detroit, usa, michigan
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18%
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Movies like Devious Maids
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 430 min.
TV show
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Amanda Vaughn, once the ultimate high school "mean girl," is forced to return home in disgrace after her marriage ends in scandal. As Amanda and her teenage kids try to adjust to their new lives, the ladies from her past alternate between ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, semi serious, feel good, light ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
gossip and rumors, strong female presence, rivalry, starting over, hypocrisy, social relations, family relations, intrigue, hopes, haunted by the past, homecoming, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa, dallas texas
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18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Sweet Valley High is an American comedy-drama series very loosely based on Francine Pascal's book series of the same name. The series ran from September 5, 1994 to October 14, 1997, and was produced by Saban Entertainment. The rights are now ...
Style:
sweet, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenager, sister sister relationship, twin sister, friendship, disorder, shopping, family relations, friends, social relations, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa
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18%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
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Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
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realistic, feel good, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night, kids, teen drama
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small town, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend, friends, small town life, female protagonist, teenager, everyday life, social relations, lifestyle, looking for love, teenage life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
yale university, connecticut, usa, new england
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18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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The Golden Girls is an American sitcom, created by Susan Harris, that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a ...
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sitcom, humorous, witty, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
female protagonist, old woman, elderly, senior citizen, sicilian, family relations, parents and children, singleness, lifestyle, best friends, women, strong female lead ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
florida, miami, sicily, atlanta georgia, brooklyn new york city ...
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18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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The Deep End is an American television series created by David Hemingson and produced by 20th Century Fox Television for the ABC television network. Starring Mehcad Brooks, Matt Long, Tina Majorino, Clancy Brown, and Billy Zane, the show follows ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
lawyer, law firm, corporate world, lawsuit, rivalry, lifestyle, workplace, lawyers and clients, ambition, legal, boss and employee, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
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18%
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