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Just for Kicks (2003)
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Best known as the production designer on most of the Farrelly Brothers films, Sidney J. Bartholomew Jr. makes his directorial debut with this family-friendly soccer comedy. Real-life twin brothers Dylan and Cole Sprouse play a pair of soccer-playing kids severely lacking in skill on the field. But when they pledge to win, they have to pull it together or face the wrath of a local bully. Just 4 Kicks also stars Tom Arnold and features an appearance by soccer pro Cobi Jones. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
Style:
captivating, humorous, semi serious, inspirational, feel good, lighthearted, realistic
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
underdog, twins, soccer, family life, youth, children, american football, football, friends, teamwork, determination, coaching, competition, parenting, community, redemption, coming of age, championship, neighborhood, rescue, retribution, basement, family relations, rivalry, ambition ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century, contemporary
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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 youth, family, ambition, rivalry, family relations, contests and competitions and friends mostly in Comedy, Family and Sport genres. Some movies like Just for Kicks: Soccer Mom (2008), The Devil's Kickers (2010), Home Team (1998), Home Run Showdown (2012), The Sandlot 2 (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
soccer, family life, contests and competitions, hidden identity, sport team, rivalry, underdog, lifestyle, hopes, family relations, ambition, parents and children ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After his parents separate and he loses his place on the soccer team, Moritz must put together a new team against incredible odds.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, exciting, teen comedy
Audience:
kids
Plot:
soccer, child's point of view, friendship, family relations, mischievous children, youth, contests and competitions, rivalry, ambition, parents and children, disorder, parents separation ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
soccer, american football, football, youth, underdog, hopes, contests and competitions, lifestyle, athlete's life, rivalry, ambition, addiction ...
Time:
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Place:
montreal
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Genre: Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two little league teams take on their coaches' sibling rivalry, and end up doing battle in a place the baseball world never expected: in the outfield of the Home Run Derby.
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semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A decade has passed in the small town where the original Sandlot gang banded together during the summer of ’62 to play baseball and battle the Beast. Now comes the sequel, a campy romp back to the dugout where nine new kids descend on the diamond ...
Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
baseball, sport team, youth, friendship, vengeance, partner, friends, teenage life, contests and competitions, coming of age, buddies, rivalry ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody is an American sitcom created by Danny Kallis and Jim Geoghan. The series was first broadcast on Disney Channel on March 18, 2005, with 4 million viewers, making it the most successful premiere for Disney Channel in ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, not serious, funny, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
hotel, brother brother relationship, twins, youth, family relations, family life, prank, manager, male protagonist, child protagonist, adolescence, single parent ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, boston
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Tommy Braxxton's father went away to war and never returned leaving Tommy faced with the daunting journey of becoming a man and the responsibility of supporting his single mom and sister. Along the way Tommy finds an unusual friend - a ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
family relations, starting over, hopes, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, farm, grownups, love, friendship, youth, battles ...
Time:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The series follows twin brothers Zack and Cody Martin and hotel heiress London Tipton in a new setting, the SS Tipton, where they attend classes at "Seven Seas High" and meet Bailey Pickett while Mr. Moseby manages the ship. The ship ...
Style:
sitcom, realistic, semi serious, not serious, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
twins, cruise ship, ship, sea voyage, family relations, lifestyle, siblings relations, disorder, mischievous children, high school life, teenage life, high school ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.
Style:
realistic, feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
american football, human spirit, athlete's life, battle of the sexes, athlete and trainer, football, rivalry, youth, underdog, gender, black, american football player ...
Time:
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Place:
illinois, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Dwarfs playing basketball... with Dennis Rodman.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic
Plot:
basketball, friends, sport team, athlete's life, hotshot hero, athlete and trainer, lifestyle, contests and competitions, hopes, rivalry, follow your dream, underdog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, venice beach california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A heart-warming comedy about the friendship between the new kid in town and a soccer-playing dog on the lam from the dog-catcher. It's up to these two underdogs to win the PeeWee Soccer League championship game.
Style:
independent film, semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
soccer, youth, football, dog, underdog, contests and competitions, orphan, athlete and trainer, hopes, lifestyle, athlete's life, ambition ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Soccer Dog: European Cup opens with the titular hero, Kimble, escaping the clutches of an evil scientist, bent on performing animal experiments. Our plucky canine hero then falls into the hands of Zack (Jake Thomas), an American boy who's been ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
soccer, children, follow your dream, athlete's life, rivalry, contests and competitions, hopes, disorder, family relations, experiment gone awry, parents and children, against the odds ...
Place:
europe, scotland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a depressed Texas town, British foreign exchange teacher Anna attempts to inject some life into her hopeless kids by introducing them to soccer. They're terrible at first, but Anna and her football-hero assistant whip them into shape. As ...
Style:
inspirational, melancholic, sentimental, light, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, teen drama
Plot:
soccer, school, youth, childhood, underdog, athlete and trainer, football, friendship, against the odds, high school life, teachers and students, small town life ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A local Pinewood Derby competition transforms an average group of dads into overzealous rivals desperate to build the winning car. As egos swell, the kids are lucky if they get to pick the paint color. While the dads are busy with outlandish ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, teen drama
Plot:
ambition, rivalry, disorder, optimism, athlete's life, contests and competitions, parents and children, family life, child as adult, sport team, underdog, small town ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
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100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
dog, father daughter relationship, widower, family relations, friends, pets, parents and children, disorder, mischievous children, youth, single parent, family life ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, chicago, illinois
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Phil Weston has been unathletic his entire life. In college he failed at every sport that he tried out for. It looks like his 10-year old son, Sam, is following in his footsteps. But with becoming the coach of The Soccers, an already successful ...
Style:
funny, humorous, hilarious, intense, not serious ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, family friendly, kids, girls' night
Plot:
soccer, football, obsession, youth, underdog, sport team, farce, family life, goofy hero, parents and children, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
illinois, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A group of kids have a dream: to play a football championship and to win. Their dream is going to be fulfilled by Don Pepe, an old guy with lots of expectations for his kids.
Style:
semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
football, school, sport team, rivalry, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, ambition, small town, coach, soccer, janitor, old man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, san francisco, latin america, mexico city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
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Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A modern day telling of the Mark Twain classic, The Prince and the Pauper.
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, feel good, teen
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
youth, rich and poor, disorder, mistaken identity, dishonesty, fish out of water, power relations, hidden identity, teenager, switching roles, urban ghetto, social differences ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Public Defender Eddie is a widower with a 13 year-old daughter, Naomi. A classic workaholic, Eddie has been M.I.A. for most of Naomi's big moments. But when an unfortunately timed accident gives Eddie the opportunity to become the "Team ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, teens, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
youth, parents and children, camp, treasure hunt, family life, siblings relations, friends, family relations, woods, obstacle course, jealousy, embarrassment ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A Philadelphia garbageman is discovered by the Philadelphia Eagles and signed by them to become a kicker.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
american football, power relations, family relations, sport team, ambition, contests and competitions, underdog, hopes, rivalry, lifestyle, athlete's life, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The competition heats up at the annual Greenlawn Christmas Decorating Contest when Norbert Bridges moves to town and stirs up trouble with the reigning champion Donnie Manning. But when the town outlaws Christmas after things get out of control it s ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, light, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, family relations, social relations, friendship, family life, rivalry, small town, ambition, christmas eve, contests and competitions, disorder, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Seven-year-old Danny Parker is a good kid who loves his parents. But they have to go out on business dinners all the time, leaving him stuck with a sitter. It's not so bad when it's his favorite babysitter, Janelle but he also gets stuck ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
family relations, when the parents are away, mischievous children, nanny, parents and children, disorder, youth, save the day, little boy, friendship, rivalry, babysitter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Beasts, a young football team, have a new coach who will teach them much more than tactics to develop on the court.
Style:
humorous, exciting, semi serious, realistic, fairy tale
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
rivalry, contests and competitions, coming of age, ambition, sport team, friends, soccer, youth, soccer coach, fort, teammate, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Young tween Justin Yoder, who's known for his outgoing demeanor and wit despite being confined to a wheelchair, dreams to be like his athletic older brother and propels himself into the world of soapbox derby racing. It's a field he's ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, captivating, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
disability, contests and competitions, hopes, rivalry, misfit, family life, isolation, miraculous event, race, youth, childhood, friends ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Family
Country: Netherlands, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young boy thinks he's got a lookalike around him, but nobody believes him. Then, he meets Thomas and they switch homes.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, captivating
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
child in peril, twins, youth, imaginary friend, children's home, orphan, family life, on the run, christmas, adoption, mistaken identity, yin and yang ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Eddie Ogden is his pa's pride and joy as well as the Groundhogs team's only asset as baseball talent. Then Eddie discovers a taste and talent for cuisine. Although his brothers Andy and Alex, and Pa as well as classmates enjoy his dishes, ...
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous, scenic
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
baseball, youth, family relations, rivalry, contests and competitions, buddies, parents and children, teenage life, cooking, father son relationship, baseball coach, food ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance, Sport
Country: Serbia
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A story about one team that decides to follow a dream that takes them on a journey to the First World Football Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930. A dream that allows them to become true stars and living legends.
Style:
captivating, sincere, sentimental, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
soccer, follow your dream, hopes, young lovers, football, love and romance, rivalry, ambition, talented, championship, fan, post war ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
former yugoslavia, balkan, uruguay, serbia
Similarity:
100%
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