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Bad Words (2013)
53K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A misanthropic man sets out to exact revenge on his estranged father, by finding a loophole and attempting to win the National Spelling Bee as an adult. Figuring it would destroy his father, and everything he's worked so hard for as head of the Spelling Bee Championship Organization, Guy Trilby (Jason Bateman) eventually discovers winning isn't necessary for revenge, and that friendship is a blessing not a curse.
Style:
funny, humorous, not serious, clever, feel good, touching, unusual plot structure, social, melancholic, absurd ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
children, competition, obsession, dark humor, blind ambition, loser, social misfits, fish out of water, rivalry, disorder, opponent, revenge, coming of age, friendship, youth, vengeance, foul language, hopes, sport, catastrophe, twists and turns, game, relationships, loneliness, writers ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, los angeles, new jersey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, melancholic and weird films with plots about dialogue, storytelling, runaway, mentor, brutality, catastrophe and life philosophy mostly in Comedy, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Bad Words: The Chumscrubber (2005), Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), The Way Way Back (2013), Bustin' Loose (1981), Butter (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. ...
Style:
surreal, bleak, semi serious, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, suburbs, suicide, kidnapping, youth, dark humor, drug abuse, dysfunctional family, mistaken identity, friendship, teenager, high school ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife.
Style:
touching, thought provoking, humorous, feel good, melancholic ...
Plot:
slacker, loneliness, midlife crisis, twists and turns, everyday life, naivete, loser, parents and children, character change, immature, existentialism, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
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Place:
new jersey, california, usa, new orleans
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers.
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touching, feel good, emotional, realistic, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
summer, teenager, friendship, vacation, coming of age, loneliness, shyness, youth, childhood, dysfunctional family, bittersweet, small town ...
Time:
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Place:
california, usa
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29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation he is given a second chance, all he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country. What could possibly go wrong?
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humorous, clever, unusual plot structure, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
bus, orphan, school, teacher, gangsters, friendship, road trip, farce, satire, twists and turns, corruption, stereotypes ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their Iowa town's annual contest.
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funny, humorous, melancholic, sweet, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
adoption, small town, contests and competitions, rivalry, mentor, twists and turns, family relations, ambition, infidelity, social relations, championship, blind ambition ...
Time:
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iowa, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
Style:
realistic, witty, humorous, sexy, talky ...
Plot:
car, business, bittersweet, marketing, friendship, revenge, adultery, car accident, obsession, runaway, relationships, redemption ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 50s, year 1963
Place:
baltimore, maryland, usa
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27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. ...
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Plot:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new england, usa
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25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Follows Solondz's film Happiness (1998).
Style:
disturbing, psychological, melancholic, talky, stylized ...
Plot:
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Time:
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florida, new jersey, israel, california, usa ...
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24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Stuart Smalley, the Saturday Night Live character, comes to the big screen. Stuart, the disciple of the 12 step program, is challenged by lifes injustices.
Style:
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Plot:
dysfunctional family, farce, dark humor, satire, self discovery, nothing goes right, disorder, family problems, family life, couple relations, lifestyle, couples ...
Time:
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Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Hal, a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route he joins the school debating team, which sends ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. MISTRESS AMERICA is a comedy about dream-chasing, ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Famous and wealthy funnyman George Simmons doesn't give much thought to how he treats people until a doctor delivers stunning health news, forcing George to reevaluate his priorities with a little help from aspiring stand-up comic Ira.
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Aaron's father's funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body, his cousin accidentally drugs her fiancé, and Aaron's successful younger brother, Ryan, flies in from New ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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22%
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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21%
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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