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Hardware Dealer Numbskull Emptybrook, the President's Son-in-Law (1978)
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Original name: Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Uuno Turhapuro, a useless bum who has married money, creates havoc around his father-in-law's presidential campaign. He dresses up as his long-lost, wealthy brother from America, but things go awry when the real brother appears. At some point Uuno takes up a job at a hardware store, only to warm up a classic TV sketch perfected years earlier by the film's writer-producer Spede Pasanen. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki
Style:
slapstick, light hearted, parody
Plot:
mistaken identity, farce, impersonation, impostor, satire, irreverent, deception, political satire, identity, small town, presidential campaign, president, laziness, social climber, son in law, father in law, idle rich, fortune hunter, marriage for money, hardware store, general
Time:
year 1978
Place:
finland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slapstick, light hearted, lighthearted and parody films with plots about farce, satire, mistaken identity, irreverent, marriage for money, laziness and social climber mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like Hardware Dealer Numbskull Emptybrook, the President's Son-in-Law: Lottovoittaja UKK Turhapuro (1976), Tupla-Uuno (1988), Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro (1975), Numbskull Emptybrook (1973), Numbskull Emptybrook in Spain (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Uuno's nose is proved to be so good, that he can smell behind the display window what goods are on the other side. With this fabulous smell talent Uuno is chosen to Police's police-dog school as a student among the other dogs. Meanwhile ...
Style:
slapstick, family comedy, light hearted
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
finland
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
It is the first anniversary of Uuno and Elisabet. Uuno has placed a bet with his friend Härski-Hartikainen a year ago, that if Uuno can take just one year of marriage with Elisabet, Hartikainen will treat him a festive dinner. However, Hartikainen ...
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Plot:
farce, irony, satire, absurd humor, nordic, humiliation, social satire, scam, mistaken identity, consumerism, ridicule, lottery ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
94%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Uuno Turhapuro becomes the President of Finland. Streets are named after him and honorary companies are arranged for him. He also tries to turn Finland into a kingdom.
Style:
parody, slapstick, lighthearted, absurd, family comedy ...
Plot:
president, political satire, nordic, irreverent, election, farce, politics, kingdom, social satire, national identity, celebrity culture, prime minister ...
Place:
finland
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend sörsselssön has lost his memory too and Härski Hartikainen tries to help them.
Style:
light hearted, slapstick, sitcom, situational comedy, adult comedy
Plot:
amnesia, identity crisis, mistaken identity, friendship, absurd humor, farce, male bonding, fish out of water, satire, body swapping, social satire, nostalgia ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
90%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Uuno's father-in-law councillor Tuura moves to the country with his wife and daughter Elisabeth. Uuno joins them when it turns out Tuura's mansion is on the construction site of a new road. Tuura however is set on preventing this.
Style:
slapstick, light hearted, family comedy, whimsical
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
village life, father in law, fish out of water, farce, satire, unhappiness, social satire, culture clash, bureaucracy, escapism, mansion, class conflict ...
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Uuno is forced to complete his mandatory military service when it is revealed that he only spent one day in the army in his youth. As is typical of the Turhapuro series his family and friends become closely tied in with these events. His friends ...
Style:
slapstick, lighthearted, realistic, not serious, humorous
Plot:
farce, absurd humor, army life, fish out of water, satire, conscription, mistaken identity, cross dressing, political satire, escapism, army, soldier ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
finland
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Uuno Turhapuro reads guide books to learn how to be an orchestra conductor and a secret agent. Meanwhile, his father in law hatches a complicated scheme to finally get rid of Uuno.
Style:
sitcom, light hearted, slapstick, situational comedy, spoof ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
double agent, farce, mistaken identity, satire, conspiracy, amateur detective, classical music, concert, gadget, dinner, minister, marriage for money ...
Time:
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Place:
finland
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Uuno Turhapuro hits his head and loses his memory. Meanwhile, his friend Härski Hartikainen founds a new peace movement with unorthodox methods.
Style:
sitcom, lighthearted, slapstick, situational comedy, buddy comedy ...
Plot:
amnesia, memory loss, friendship, farce, mistaken identity, satire, small town, irreverent, identity crisis, screwball, social commentary, political satire ...
Time:
80s
Place:
finland
Similarity:
83%
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Country: Finland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Tupla-Uuno
Plot:
beach, secretary, ceo, businessman, marriage for money, mistaken identity, father in law son in law relationship, laziness, scheme, son in law, retirement, mechanic ...
Time:
80s
Place:
finland
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Uuno is unemployed and his friends try to arrange a job for him. With his imagination, though, and the help of Härski Hartikainen (Spede Pasanen), he somehow manages to avoid all work, until he becomes what he has always dreamt of being - a film ...
Style:
light hearted, slapstick, family comedy, cult classic, whimsical
Plot:
satire, absurd humor, farce, irreverent, unemployment, aspiration, professor, imagination, deception, friendship, small town, house ...
Time:
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Place:
finland
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Uuno moves in flight cargo to Helsinki for the search of a rich, beautiful wife. He buys elegant clothes for eight marks from an estate auction and in two weeks becomes the most pursued bachelor in town, charming all the women. He also starts as a ...
Style:
black and white
Plot:
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Place:
finland, helsinki finland
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Uuno goes with his wife to spend summer holiday to their villa in country, studies playing of the violin in a correspondence course and constructs an own violin with do-it-yourself-method, but quits his career when he perceives that takes his free ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
finland
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Uuno Turhapuro is searching for a job and takes a correspondence course in tour guiding. Eventually he gets a job in a small travel agency and takes a group of Finnish tourists to Marbella, Spain. Unfortunately Uuno's father-in-law Tuura is in ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
entertaining, slapstick, family comedy, light hearted, parody
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
small town, swedish, farce, irreverent, satire, comic book, environmental issue, poaching, political satire, corruption, zeppelin, oil well ...
Similarity:
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Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Place:
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Country: France
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
27%
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Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
26%
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Country: Philippines
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
26%
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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572
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Story:
No overview
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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22%
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