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The Barefoot Executive (1971)
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The Barefoot Executive (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the great Disney tradition of wild family fun, a young Kurt Russell stars as Steven Post - an ambitious mailroom clerk at a second-rate TV network. With his eye on the boardroom, and getting nowhere with the studio's top dog, he makes a career-changing discovery. His girlfriend's lovable pet chimp can pick a hit show every time! His secret for success turns into a madcap monkey business when he makes vice president and jealous rivals want in on the act. Ride along with narrow escapes and a classic cast featuring Joe Flynn and Harry Morgan in a comedic climb up the corporate ladder that will leave you howling for more!
Style: clever, humorous, hilarious, offbeat, witty, cynical, semi serious, funny, light, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: monkey, animal, satire, business, friendship, friends, pets, rise to the top, journalism, workplace romance, media, ambition, workplace intrigue, disorder, workplace, obnoxious boss, boss and employee, media satire, workplace situations, power relations, airplane, motorcycle, baseball, stalking, ambulance ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Keyword: doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, feel good and offbeat films with plots about disorder, friends, animal, youth, pets, animal life and friendship mostly in Comedy, Family and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Barefoot Executive: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), The Strongest Man in the World (1975), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), Snowball Express (1972), The Million Dollar Duck (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a ...
Style: semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: computer, hacking, friendship, geek, gangster, hacker, college student, science and technology, cognitive science, computer hacker, robot, cybersecurity ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Strongest Man in the World (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Strongest Man in the World is a 1975 film starring Kurt Russell as Dexter Riley, a student in the fictional Medfield College. A school laboratory accident mixes one student's vitamin cereal mix with Dexter Riley's chemical experiment. ...
Style: fast, feel good, humorous, offbeat, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: laboratory, fraternity, experiment, super powers, science and technology, humour, rivalry, college, school, cow, overweight, arrest ...
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Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before Dexter and his friends, Debbie and Richard Schuyler, can even enjoy their spectacular discovery, ...
Style: humorous, exciting, semi serious, psychotronic
Audience: family outing
Plot: invisibility, college, invisible man, super powers, science and technology, chase, college campus, invisible, invention, robbery, partner, cons and scams ...
Time: year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Snowball Express (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When John Baxter inherits a ski resort in the Rocky Mountains, he quits his job in New York and moves the family west to run it. Only to find that the place is a wreck. But together they decide to try to fix it up and run it. But Martin Ridgeway, ...
Style: family comedy, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: mountain, skiing, snow, rocky mountains, ski resort, winter, loan, hotel, family relations, starting over, against the odds, resort ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: usa, colorado, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Million Dollar Duck (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
Style: melancholic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: duck, stereotypes, treasure hunt, multiple storylines, good versus evil, professor, justice, magic, fish out of water, experiment gone awry, odd couple, partner ...
Time: year 1971
⇓ similarity ⇓
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MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: MVP 2 opens with the lovable Jack being ousted from his hockey team, the Seattle Simians, and having to hit the road after being falsely accused of league misconduct. Jack ends up in the city, where he's befriended by Ben, a homeless ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: skateboard, youth, friendship, monkey actor, athlete's life, against the odds, contests and competitions, buddies, athlete and trainer, ambition, monkey, ape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
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Treasure Buddies (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Disney's irresistible talking puppies are back in an all-new movie that takes them halfway across the world to the ruins of ancient Egypt. With the help of some exotic new friends, this epic adventure is a treasure trove of pure Buddy fun. In a ...
Style: feel good, humorous, sentimental, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot: dog, youth, pets, treasure hunt, friendship, young heroes, legends and myths, uninhibited rivalry, escapades, heroes, rivalry, danger ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
MXP: Most Xtreme Primate (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The 2000s Most Valuable Primate is back, this time on a snowboard.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating
Audience: kids, preschool
Plot: chimpanzee, family relations, friendship, buddies, disorder, animal life, escapades, monkey, pets, youth, business, snow ...
Place: colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Maya Dolittle (Kyla Pratt) is back in a heartwarming adventure of presidential proportions! Maya's dream of going to vet school is put on hold when she gets a call from the president of the United States. It seems the First Dog is out of ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, offbeat
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot: veterinarian, silly humor, animal, kids and family, heroic mission, imaginary, escapades, danger, pets, save the day, race against time, disorder ...
Time: year 2008
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Funky Monkey (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: not serious, feel good, humorous, melancholic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
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Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Jack is a three-year-old chimpanzee who has been the subject of a long-term experiment by Dr. Kendall, a researcher who been teaching Jack to communicate through sign language. ack scrambles onto the ice in the midst of practice for Steven's ...
Style: feel good, humorous, not serious, captivating, light
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: hockey, chimpanzee, youth, monkey, friendship, athlete's life, against the odds, ambition, buddies, underdog, contests and competitions, disorder ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Super Sucker (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two door to door vaccuum cleaner salesmen hilariously compete against each other.
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, light, sex comedy
Audience: teens
Plot: workplace, rise to the top, rivalry, against the odds, ambition, obnoxious boss, workplace situations, uninhibited rivalry, farce, workplace romance, boss and employee, silly humor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.4
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Head Office (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, biting ...
Plot: job promotion, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, cons and scams, workplace romance, workplace situations, power relations, workplace, dishonesty, rise to the top, business, office work ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that gives it special powers, including the ability to communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities and seeks the help of a scientist in order to ...
Style: cute, humorous, mysterious, freeze frame, feel good ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jack Cooper (Matt LeBlanc) could be a world-class baseball pitcher if he didn't keep buckling under the pressure. He tries to keep his spirits up after he's traded to a minor league team but loses all hope when he discovers that Ed, one of ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, family comedy, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
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Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
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Duration: 100 min.
Story: Placed in a foster home that doesn't allow pets, 16-year-old Andi and her younger brother, Bruce, turn an abandoned hotel into a home for their dog. Soon other strays arrive, and the hotel becomes a haven for every orphaned canine in town. But ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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No Deposit, No Return (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for two hapless safe crackers, they become part of the plan.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, slapstick ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, adult
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36%
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Intern (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young, underappreciated intern at the ultra-hip magazine Skirt must learn to deal with kissy-face phoniness, model tantrums and bulimic editors, while trying to steal the heart of a dashing British art director from the grips of a supermodel.
Style: witty, humorous, semi serious, independent film
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Time: 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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Duration: 93 min.
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Style: semi serious, humorous, romantic, offbeat
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Family, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Dr. Dolittle: The Final (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, unusual plot structure, contemplative
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens
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Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Eric and Marsha break off their long-term relationship, journalist Eric is able to weather it pretty well. He still has his long time canine companion Gabe, and his boss, Ms Andrews, wants to send him to London to open an office. But first Ms ...
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: disorder, pets, fall in love, obsessive quest, wooing, nothing goes right, escapades, parents and children, talking dog, dog, animal, family relations ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Beethoven's 4th (2001)
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: humorous, feel good, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, preschool
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While trying to avoid an obsessed girl, rocker Drake Parker meets a young girl, who makes him promise to give her family the best Christmas ever. Later, at the Premiere's first ever Christmas party, a group of teens start to make trouble. ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Larger Than Life (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Motivational Speaker Jack Corcoran is determined to get his career off the ground, but the biggest gigs he can get are the ones nobody wants. Then one day, he receives a telegram that his circus clown father has passed away, and has left a ...
Style: light, funny, touching, feel good, road movie ...
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Time: year 1996, 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 4.5
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Junkyard Dogs (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Follows a dog who is a master escape artist, who must team up with his puppy pals to prevent their block from being robbed.
Style: humorous, entertaining, semi serious, feel good, satirical ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: dog, human animal relationship, robbery, pet dog, animal human communication, save the day, attempted robbery, heist gone wrong, heist, pets, puppy, burglar ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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