Movies like Dumbbells

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Dumbbells (2014)
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Dumbbells (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dumbbells is a light-hearted buddy comedy set amongst a group of misfit employees that work in a struggling fitness center in Los Angeles.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, realistic, independent film
Plot: workplace, buddies, workplace situations, basketball player, gym, ambition, recovery, society, friends, misfit, social misfits, boss and employee, basketball, bitch, male nudity, actor, banker, actor playing himself, cult
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, california, los angeles

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, captivating and semi serious films with plots about friends, society, buddies, disorder, workplace situations, friendship and workplace mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Dumbbells: Happy Birthday, Harris Malden (2008), Hollidaysburg (2014), Growing Up and Other Lies (2014), Pretty Bird (2008), Carpool Guy (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Happy Birthday, Harris Malden (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Harris Malden wears his insecurity on his face in a curious disguise for everyone to see. No one in the neighborhood, not even his best friend Paul or his brother Melvin, has the heart to tell him how ridiculous he looks with the thick black line ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: birthday, friendship, family relations, friends, society, lifestyle, physical appearance, misfit, party, love, couples, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia
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Hollidaysburg (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Home for Thanksgiving break after their first semester at college, five friends discover just how much things change (and don't) after high school.
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, friends, youth, homecoming, thanksgiving, society, college, woman, coming of age, small town life, small town ...
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Growing Up and Other Lies (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends – Billy, Rocks and Gunderson – to help him retrace their ...
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Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: disorder, friendship, partner, unemployment, buddies, dark humor, desire for fame, friends, aviation, unfulfillment, nasa, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
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Carpool Guy (2005)
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Duration: 119 min.
Story: Joel Goodman is a hotshot advertising executive angling for a promotion, but he feels stuck - not least of all in traffic. A seeming answer to his prayers comes in the form of a homeless man whom Joel pays to sit in his passenger seat so he can use ...
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A True Story (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Shane inherits a gentleman's club from his estranged uncle, he leaves his Midwestern home for Los Angeles. Run by a booze hound and employing a dozen out of control strippers, Shane must do everything he can to save the club from ...
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The Smell of Success (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr. Rose, the genius behind Rose's Manure Company, the livelihood of its loyal fleet of salesmen threatens to go, as they say, into the toilet. Enter estranged daughter Rosemary, a high-class- cosmetics ...
Style: humorous, captivating, atmospheric, light, realistic ...
Plot: family business, rivalry, workplace intrigue, family relations, workplace, boss and employee, society, disorder, fish out of water, salesman, save the day, eccentric family ...
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Trailer Park Boys: Live at the North Pole (2014)
Genre: Comedy
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Christmas in Compton (2012)
Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 93 min.
Story: Big Earl, the owner of a Christmas tree lot in Compton, California runs into some trouble when his son Derrick crosses the line to prove to his father that he is a success.
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Audience: family outing
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Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
Genre: Comedy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
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