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Hook, Line And Sinker (1969)
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Hook, Line And Sinker (1969)
Original name: Hook, Line and Sinker
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive (Jerry Lewis) goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake. This 1969 comedy, directed by George Marshall, also stars Anne Francis, Peter Lawford and Kathleen Freeman.
Plot: doctor, surgery, debt, infidelity, fraud, terminal illness, dog, dancing, fishing, hospital, family relations, father daughter relationship, dancer, mother daughter relationship, best friend, father son relationship, drunkenness, corpse, suburbs, arrogance, husband wife relationship, cigarette smoking, insurance fraud, credit card, flashback ...
Time: year 1969
Place: lisbon portugal, portugal
Keyword: australian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about family relations, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, couples and cigarette smoking mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like Hook, Line And Sinker: Brother for All the Money (1979), So There (1997), Rumba Therapy (2022), Mom's Day Away (2014), Never Too Late (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Brother for All the Money (1979)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Honza and Zuzana are very young husband and wife. They have a little daughter of whom willingly occasionally take care the grandparents and Honza's fifteen-year-old brother Martin. Zuzana continues studying and Honza devotes all weekends as an ...
Plot: jealousy, brother brother relationship, young love, police officer, teenage boy, young adult, family relations, mother daughter relationship, marriage, kidnapping, police, drinking ...
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So There (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a truck, a trucker's dream. The father, practical joker, and larger-than-life lover, keeps a ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: daughter, unfaithfulness, family relations, suicide attempt, patriarch, plumber, accountant, cruelty, mafioso, family dinner, brother sister relationship, husband wife relationship ...
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Rumba Therapy (2022)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tony is a macho middle-aged school bus driver in the provinces with no friends or relations. A sudden heart attack throws him into a tailspin. Tony's convinced he's going to die. When his cardiologist warns him : We all need others. Alone, ...
Style: captivating, satirical, feel good, semi serious
Plot: dance teacher, father daughter relationship, father daughter reunion, dance class, dancing, father, dance lesson, father and daughter, family relations, satire, dancehall girl, dance ...
Place: paris france
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48%
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Mom's Day Away (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A frustrated stay-at-home mom takes a weekend away when her family ignores her over Mother's Day.
Style: captivating, entertaining, humorous, light, feel good ...
Plot: mother's day, husband wife relationship, family relations, relationship vs career, career, mother son relationship, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, relationships, mother daughter relationship, real estate agent, motherhood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Never Too Late (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A 60-year-old lumber supply businessman is dismayed to learn his 50-year-old wife is pregnant. A film adaptation of the hit Broadway comedy, with Paul Ford repeating his stage role as the flabbergasted papa-to-be.
Style: retro, independent film
Plot: parenthood, small town, mayor, father daughter relationship, expectant father, father in law son in law relationship, mother in law son in law relationship, trying to get pregnant, pregnancy, pregnant wife, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: boston
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Passed Away (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A bunch of eccentric relatives gather for their patriarch's funeral.
Style: black comedy, laugh out loud, dark comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: funeral, family relations, pregnancy, midlife crisis, dark humor, family problems, couples, single parent, nothing goes right, love and romance, clergy, elderly ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: ireland, europe
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Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman are very rich but not happy Dave is a hard working business man, his wife is only interested in yoga, aerobics and other meditation classes, and he sleeps with the house maid. Their teenage son is ...
Style: funny, entertaining, laugh out loud, clever, not serious ...
Plot: homeless, dog, dysfunctional family, satire, hobo, thanksgiving, wealth, suicide attempt, homelessness, summer, drowning, hidden treasure ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa
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Homolka and Pocketbook (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The husband and wife Ludva and Hedus Homolkas with their twins Péta and Máta and Ludva's parents - the granny and grandpa - arrive in the snowy Spindleruv Mlýn for a holiday. They promise to each other that they will not spoil the quite ...
Style: educational
Plot: husband wife relationship, dancing, cigarette smoking, father son relationship, snow, elderly, family relations, skiing, mountain
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46%
Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, slapstick, feel good ...
Plot: workplace, farce, department store, family relations, rise to the top, parents and children, wooing, disorder, goofy hero, chaos and mayhem, store, mistaken identity ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: new york
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46%
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Houseguest (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In hot water with the mob over an unpaid debt, a con man poses as a family friend in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb.
Style: humorous, black comedy, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: friendship, stupidity, dysfunctional family, mistaken identity, teenage girl, dentist, redemption, boy, reckless driving, impersonation, debt, lawyer ...
Time: 90s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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Five on the Black Hand Side (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: blaxploitation, family relations, black, wedding, african, society, couple relations, politics, life is a bitch, family problems, injustice, couples ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, california
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45%
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Serial (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: It's the end of the 70s. Hippies are assimilating, women are raising their consciousness, and men are becoming confused and ineffectual. Don't expect to be able to keep track of all the names or who's sleeping with who; the picture ...
Style: cult classic, sex comedy, biting, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: orgy, religious cult, religion, unfaithfulness, satire, family relations, infidelity, female nudity, religions or cults, misfit, society, obsession ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: california, northern california, usa, san francisco
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45%
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Outing Riley (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Bobby is a gay man in the closet in 2003, afraid to come out to his three older brothers, even though he's at least 30 and is being pressed by his sister, his boyfriend, and his lesbian beard to tell the lads. The death of his father and a ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: gay, family relations, self discovery, forbidden love, eccentric family, best friend, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, opposites attract, mistaken identity, parents and children ...
Place: chicago, usa
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She-Devil (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
Style: black comedy, funny, dark comedy, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: infidelity, revenge, novelist, mistress, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, divorce, women, breakup, embezzlement, extramarital affair, sex scene ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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The Family Jewels (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young heiress must choose between six uncles, one of which is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.
Style: cult classic, parody, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: clown, uncle niece relationship, inheritance, orphan, gangster, ocean, silly humor, babies and infants, rise to the top, misfit, heroes, goofy hero ...
Time: 60s
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Throw Out the Anchor (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A comedy about an unemployed widower who heads to Florida with his children for a vacation on a houseboat. When he gets there there is no houseboat
Style: independent film
Plot: jewish stereotype, corrupt politician, river, hindu, widow, boat, law enforcement, conspiracy, husband wife relationship, lawyer, father daughter relationship, drunkenness ...
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The Big Bad Wolf (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
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Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, feel good, light ...
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Time: 21st century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A married father of three, lives in Créteil doing odd jobs and spends his time at the local PMU bar. One day, to please his daughter, he promises a little too quick to take the whole family on vacation to ski. The only problem: if he breaks his ...
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Plot: ski resort, holiday, husband wife relationship, family holiday, family relations, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, satire, father son relationship, mother son relationship, male female relationship, father daughter relationship ...
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44%
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Loverboy (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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Time: 80s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
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Style: christmas comedy, family comedy
Audience: girls' night
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Place: new york
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The Guardian Angel (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Madrid, 1981. Jorge has just arrived in Madrid to live in beautiful large house with his brother, mother, grandmother Obdulia, a wealthy woman who is somewhat deaf, and his grandfather, an aged and senile octogenarian.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Genre: Comedy
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Easy Money (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: usa
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Kid Power (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, sincere
Plot: teen rebel, family relations, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, husband wife relationship, rebellious daughter, divorced parents, babysitter, revenge, prank, parents, children ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Mean Spirit (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
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Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Love God? (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
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Time: year 1969
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