Movies like I Heart Shakey
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I Heart Shakey (2012)
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shakey is a family film about a 35-year-old widower named J.T. O'Neil, his precocious 10-year-old daughter and their devoted mutt Shakey. After moving from a small town to Chicago and missing the fine print in their rental contract, J.T. is forced to try and get rid of his lovable pooch. Shakey and Chandler won't have it and hatch a plan to keep Shakey and teach J.T. a valuable lesson about loyalty and the importance of keeping family together.
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
dog, father daughter relationship, family relations, widower, friends, pets, parents and children, youth, family life, single parent, mischievous children, disorder, friendship, escapades, problem solving, money problems, food fight, laser, electric fence, family
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, illinois
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Most similar movies to I Heart Shakey
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and light films with plots about disorder, family relations, youth, friends, dog, pets and family life mostly in Family, Comedy and Adventure genres. Some movies like I Heart Shakey: Survival Family (2016), Cinnamon (2011), Chilly Christmas (2012), Marley & Me: The Puppy Years (2011), Babysitters Beware (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki (Fumiyo Kohinata) decides to escape from Tokyo with his family.
Style:
road movie, humorous, light, psychological, feel good ...
Plot:
food shortage, japanese wife, japanese school, japanese teenager, parent child relationship, hunger, countryside, water shortage, animal cruelty, japanese military, soldier, blackout ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
University professor Madeline Walters isn’t doing too well in the dating game. Good men are hard to find, so she’s happy spending time with her Maltese puppy Cinnamon, and her precocious teenage daughter Chloe.
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, captivating, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
christmas, pets, save the day, dog, family relations, parents and children, fall in love, nothing goes right, single parent, friendship, rivalry, talking dog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Eleven-year-old Bobby Cole and his dog Chilly are best friends, living happily in their Southern California beach house. But when Bobby's father Patrick (C. Thomas Howell), a single parent and police detective, accepts a job in New York City, ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
christmas, dog, youth, pets, family relations, disorder, parents and children, father son relationship, holiday, save the day, best friends, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fall into puppy love with “the world’s worst dog”, who now has a frisky voice and an attitude to match. Join Marley for his mischievous puppy years, as he and his summer pal, Bodie Grogan, wreak havoc on a neighborhood dog contest. Marley ...
Style:
exciting, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
dog, puppy, pets, youth, talking dog, animals, friends, family relations, teenage life, chaos and mayhem, dog training, anthropomorphism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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100%
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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, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
family relations, nanny, when the parents are away, mischievous children, parents and children, little boy, disorder, youth, save the day, rivalry, friendship, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Jimmy lives in the tranquil town of Eagle Rock, Louisiana, with his father, stepmother and his best friend Rainy, a German Shepherd. When Jimmy's father gets a promotion, the family must relocate to an apartment in New York City that has a ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, road movie ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
dog, german shepherd, forceful separation, save the day, on the road, friendship, pets, family life, disorder, youth, road trip, stupid kid ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana, new york
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51%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. When Sara takes Beethoven to spend summer vacation with wacky Uncle Freddie in an old mining town, the mischievous canine "digs up" the missing clue to a legendary hidden fortune of Rita and Moe ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, preschoolers, pre-teens
Plot:
dog, animals, youth, saint bernard dog, family relations, friendship, family life, friends, best friends, escapades, heroes, partners ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
usa
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51%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Kassie and her friends stumble across an old, broken pocket watch they begin an unexpected journey to unlock the secret of the legendary Garrison Gold. They'll have to solve riddles and follow clues to find the lost treasure. With the help ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, exciting, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
treasure hunt, escapades, best friends, youth, pets, young heroes, journey, friendship, dog, rivalry, christmas, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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45%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A runaway boy befriends a pack of homeless puppies. Together, they stop a bank robbery and find a family to adopt them all.
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
golden retriever, christmas, youth, dog, heist, friendship, disorder, talking dog, family relations, friends, house, gang ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
All Ira Finkelstein wants for Christmas is...Christmas. Unfortunately, his parents are sending him to Florida to be with his Grandparents. Ira's spirit soars as he manages to land in Christmas Town, USA, instead.
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
christmas, youth, follow your dream, disorder, mischievous children, family relations, friends, switching roles, hopes, parents and children, holiday, jewish ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida, washington d.c.
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42%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A bullied teen stumbles into possession of a top-secret government formula that turns his dog invisible and gives it the power of speech.
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
dog, youth, friendship, pets, suburbs, birthday, stupid kid, invisibility, when the parents are away, farce, friends, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Ray and Sal, two orphaned sisters, adopt and hide a Great Dane puppy from their two adopted parents living in a luxury downtown New York apartment that expressely forbids dogs.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, touching
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
dog, youth, pets, human animal relationship, mischievous children, family life, disorder, reincarnation, parents and children, adoption, friends, family relations ...
Place:
new york, usa
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37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Benji and his friends try to save his mother from a puppy mill.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, touching
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
dog, youth, friendship, against the odds, odd couple, young heroes, parents and children, adoption, fish out of water, disorder, rescue, mischievous children ...
Time:
2000s
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37%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two orphans named Jory and Tess live with their grandparents. However, their cousins Bart and Bertha try to take them away because the two kids have trust funds from their dead parents. When Bart and Bertha kidnap the newborn puppies, Rusty the dog ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
dog, family relations, rescue, animals, disorder, animal life, friends, family life, getting home, misfit, young heroes, youth ...
Time:
90s
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37%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
"I will try to be normal" 12-year-old Ace Ventura Jr. promises. Thats cool, except whats normal for him is finding missing mutts, kidnapped kitties or gone gators and creating hilarious chaos every step of the way.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, saga
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
pets, disorder, obsessive quest, uncover truth, escapades, rescue, family relations, heroes, amateur detective, young heroes, private detective, family life ...
Time:
2000s
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36%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When Henry fails yet again to hand in his homework for the umpteenth time, he has no idea that this will set off a chain of events which will see him forming an unlikely alliance with Moody Margaret, the infuriating girl next door, and his ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, light, realistic, not serious
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, mischievous children, young heroes, friendship, parents and children, teachers and students, friends, girl, child, family life, tyrannosaurus rex, british ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A mysterious talking cat uses its powers of communication to enrich the lives of two different families, and bring them together.
Style:
humorous, light, feel good, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
cat, single parent, family relations, disorder, pets, parents and children, youth, supernatural, stupid kid, brother sister relationship, animals, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Mary Beth is a marine biologist that gets annoyed when a dog called Zeus stows aboard her research boat. Nevertheless she is intrigued when the intrusive canine makes best-friends with her captive dolphin, Roxanne. She falls in love with Zeus's ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, melancholic, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
dog, dolphins, friendship, animals, youth, rescue, single parent, odd couple, daring rescue, mischievous children, escapades, young heroes ...
Place:
bahamas
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36%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jennie Garth of "90210" stars as Susan, an unemployed Los Angeles museum curator and widowed single mom temporarily living in a small California town with her three sensitive sons. Jake (Brad Rowe of "General Hospital") is a ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, looking for love, family relations, holiday, wedding, couples, fall in love, pets, disorder, family life, dog, pet dog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After the Lowry Family moves from New York to Placerville in California, a golden retriever comes to their house. The family starts to take care of her and the retriever, now named Pilot, has puppies. They give all of the puppies away, but later ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
golden retriever, dog, family relations, pets, family life, puppy, pet dog, lost dog, animal human communication, dead animal, animals, kids and family ...
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Ramona is a little girl with a very big imagination and a nose for mischief. Her playful antics keep everyone in her loving family on their toes, including her older sister Beezus, who's just trying to survive her first year of high school. ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
mischievous children, youth, teenager, aunt niece relationship, family relations, child's point of view, family life, two sisters, parent child relationship, sibling relationship, disorder, money problems ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, feel good, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
childhood, disney, job interview, child's point of view, siblings relations, father son relationship, brothers, family relations, birthday party, bad luck, coming of age, friends ...
Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada, UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A man must participate in the Iditarod dog race across Alaska to inherit property from his legendary grandfather, but ends up getting much more than he bargained for.
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
dog, ambition, fish out of water, friendship, sport, contests and competitions, rivalry, escapades, winter, dog sled, snow, silly humor ...
Place:
alaska, usa
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Baby Bink couldn't ask for more; he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, he lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby ...
Style:
funny, light, humorous, not serious, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
babies and infants, mischievous children, stupidity, chase, prank, kidnapping, escapades, child abduction, farce, young heroes, rescue, childhood ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, illinois, usa
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When Papi & co move into a luxurious hotel, his youngest pup Rosa feels neglected and he must show her how special she is.
Style:
not serious, humorous
Audience:
family outing, kids, preschoolers
Plot:
dog, silly humor, hotel, disney, lifestyle, disorder, friends, pets, farce, couples, rivals, gadget ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
beverly hills, california, usa
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music, Sport
Country: Iceland
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Things are upside-down in LazyTown. Stephanie, an optimistic girl with bright pink hair, comes to live in LazyTown and meets a zany mix of townspeople, including the world’s laziest super-villain, Robbie Rotten. Fortunately for Stephanie, ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, light, colourful, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
laziness, surrealism, friends, rivalry, health and fitness, fantasy world, activism, teenager, teenage girl, love, children, jealousy ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The family is pleasantly surprised and puzzled when Beethoven suddenly becomes obedient. Turns out it's a prince and the pauper scenario, with the real Beethoven now living with a pompous rich family.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, preschoolers
Plot:
dog, youth, family relations, human dog relationship, saint bernard dog, mistaken identity, fish out of water, parents and children, pets, escapades, partners, disorder ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A group of youngsters trying to save their playground from an unscrupulous developer who wants to build a factory there.
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
youth, family relations, disorder, friends, mischievous children, family life, factory, friendship, deception, heroes, activism, bicycle ...
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An all-new Disney holiday classic is born - Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups. Starring a brand-new litter of the cutest talking pups ever - Hope, Jingle, Charity, and Noble - it's perfect for the whole family. When Mrs. Claus travels to Pineville, ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, family outing
Plot:
dog, santa claus, christmas, family relations, animal life, stowaway, disorder, pets, friends, youth, family gatherings, disney ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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32%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The original traditional one-hundred-percent red-blooded two-fisted all-american christmas continues five years later with Ralphie, Randy mom and the old man. This time Ralphie has his eyes fixed on a car. But trouble is sure to follow.
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, sincere, uplifting ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
christmas, family life, holiday, eccentric family, youth, coming of age, escapades, teaching the ways of the world, society, destiny, happy ending, hopes ...
Time:
2010s, year 1946, 21st century
Place:
usa
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32%
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