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Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1991)
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Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other.
Style: cult classic, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, nostalgic, cult film
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: family relations, coming of age, dating, divorce, dysfunctional family, road trip, family drama, estrangement, escape, experiment, swimming, vacation, large family, lie, camping, hitchhiking, family reunited, narration, pregnancy, youth, twins, missing person, parents and children, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 1990s
Place: hawaii, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and feel good films with plots about family relations, parents and children, couples, youth, coming of age, love and romance and couple relations mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even: She's Out of Control (1989), The Discoverers (2012), As Cool as I Am (2013), A Beer Tale (2012), Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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She's Out of Control (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Los Angeles radio-station manager's girlfriend shows his teenage daughter how to be sexy.
Style: humorous, melancholic, light, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night, girls' night
Plot: teenage daughter, makeover, coming of age, father daughter relationship, single father, teenager, teenage love, love and romance, family relations, child as adult, dating, single parent ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: southern california
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The Discoverers (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch takes his begrudging teenagers Zoe and Jack on a road trip to a conference in hopes of jumpstarting his career and reconnecting with his kids. But, when Lewis’s estranged father Stanley goes missing on a ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, humorous, captivating, light ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, family problems, siblings relations, love, bittersweet, highway travel, road trip, on the road
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
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54%
As Cool as I Am (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, teenage life, family relations, family problems, youth, crumbling marriage, parents and children, teenage angst, coming of age, teen romance, suburbs, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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50%
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A Beer Tale (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A coming of age romantic comedy centered around the lives of twin brothers Luke and Corey Frankenstein in the pivotal months following college graduation. Orphaned at the age of five, the brothers inherited their family brewery and were left in the ...
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, light, realistic ...
Plot: beer, coming of age, family business, family relations, twins, youth, love and romance, rivalry, couples, friendship, drinking alcohol, food ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual ...
Style: funny, realistic, semi autobiographical, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: coming of age, jewish family, dysfunctional family, great depression, boy, stage play, past, family relations, breaking the fourth wall, gambling, eccentric family, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1937
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
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Daddy Cool (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story about the age gap between a scientist father, Philipe Le Tallec, and his newly discovered teen aged daughter, Eglantine.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: family relations, parents and children, disorder, youth, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, estrangement, coming of age, scientist, daughter, social relations, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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49%
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Raising Flagg (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A comedy centered on a handyman (Arkin) and his lifelong competition with his neighbor (Pendleton.)
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: parents and children, single parent, couple relations, betrayal, family relations, couples, friendship, eccentric family, family life, contests and competitions, small town, human nature ...
Place: oregon
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49%
Rolling Family (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A wedding invite from an estranged sibiling inspires a grandmother to assemble her family and embark on a roadtrip in a broken down caravan.
Style: road movie, semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: gender, family relations, family problems, siblings relations, on the road, parents and children, family life, love and romance, couples, family in crisis, eccentric family, dysfunctional family ...
Place: argentina, latin america, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, hopes, homecoming, couples, family problems, parents and children, family relations, couple relations, estrangement, eccentric family, family life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Small, Beautifully Moving Parts (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Sarah Sparks is pregnant and feeling wholly ambivalent, despite her boyfriend's pure enthusiasm. A committed tech-geek, she fears she is more interested in ultrasound technology than in what's being ultra-sounded. When her sister lures ...
Style: feel good, sincere, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: pregnancy, road trip, introspection, parents and children, technology, couples, couple relations, family relations, lifestyle, strong female presence, friends, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Caruso, Zero for Conduct (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A movie directed by F.Nuti
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, touching
Plot: gang, family problems, youth, dishonesty, parents and children, family relations, kids in trouble, juvenile delinquency, infidelity, family in crisis, couples, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florence
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Special Delivery (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A bonded courier transports a bratty teenager on an international flight, but realizes a trap has been set up for them when they reach the U.S.
Style: humorous, sentimental, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Plot: teenage life, good versus evil, custody, youth, frame up, family relations, hopes, cons and scams, dishonesty, rivalry, danger, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, hawaii, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Morgan Stewart's Coming Home (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After seven years in boarding school, Morgan Stewart is finally coming home. He discovers it's not the same happy home it used to be....
Style: cult classic, humorous, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, school, teen angst, family relations, campaign, ambition, youth, society, self discovery, rise to the top, on the run, mischievous children ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: washington d.c.
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48%
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Us & Them (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: For the past six months, New York pharmaceutical copywriter Gavin and Pennsylvania-based printing press employee Stacey have been flirting online and finally agree to meet... with their best friends in tow for double-date safety. Stacey's ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: couples, couple relations, family relations, friends, love and romance, parents and children, best friend, buddies, twentysomething life, family life, dating, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Kwik Stop (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two strangers discover you really can find anything at a convenience store -- even love. An aspiring actor stuck in a small town who has big plans of moving to Hollywood so he can strike it rich. One night, while on his way into a corner store, he ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, road movie ...
Plot: fall in love, odd couple, unlikely criminals, couple relations, couples, love and romance, on the road, aspiring actor, shoplifting, small town, business, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Queen of Hearts (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a cafe in an Italian neighbourhood. One day their father loses the cafe, the home and his wedding ring by gambling.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cafe, youth, food, family relations, couples, family conflict, immigrant family, love and romance, coming of age, society, family problems, family life ...
Time: year 1989, 80s, 20th century
Place: europe, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
4 Wedding Planners (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Romantic comedy taking a lighthearted look at a wedding planning business run by a Honolulu mom and three daughters from three different dads. Triple-divorcee Miriam is having her own lack of luck in love, her eldest daughter Lily heads home after ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, love and romance, family business, looking for love, family relations, couples, homecoming, parents and children, fall in love, friendship, strong female presence, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Crazy Eyes (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Zack (Haas) is a young, divorced father who starts to develop romantic feelings towards his friend Rebecca (Zima), whom he refers to as "Crazy Eyes". He spends a lot of time at a bar run by his best friend Dan Drake (Busey) and hanging out ...
Style: touching, humorous, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: family relations, fall in love, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, wooing, womanizer, nightlife, lifestyle, parents and children, single parent, love and romance, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Ultimate Accessory (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story of Aleksandra and Cyrille, a prominent, trendy, and very well-off Parisian couple, whose life is not quite the same after seven-year-old AlekseĂŻ from Russia suddenly pops up in their 100% cashmere, childless home. Aleksandra soon realises ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, light ...
Plot: family problems, couples, family relations, life turned upside down, couple relations, adoption, family in crisis, disorder, coming of age, celebrity culture, female nudity
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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Lou! (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Lou, a creative and dreamy 12-year-old girl, lives alone with her mother in an orange building with tons of little balconies that give access to the roof. Mina has been her best friend since kindergarten, and Lou has been in love with Tristan, one ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, coming of age, family relations, single parent, fall in love, neighbor, friendship, couples, teenager, best friend, strong female presence, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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47%
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings, Sue Ellen can party and have fun. But then the babysitter abruptly dies, leaving the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot: fashion, teenager, mischievous children, coming of age, children, high school, babysitter, dysfunctional family, childhood, crime gone awry, twists and turns, family relations ...
Time: 90s, year 1990
Place: australia
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47%
All in Good Time (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: East is East writer Ayub Khan-Din returns with another funny, tender-hearted portrait of family strife. Based on his popular play Rafta, Rafta (itself inspired by Bill Naughtons 1960s classic All in Good Time), the film is set in Bolton where Atul ...
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, captivating, light ...
Plot: couple relations, family life, newlywed, family relations, parents and children, couples, family problems, urban
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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47%
Mom's on Strike (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: She was an overworked mom trying to get her family's attention. She didn't know she would become a national sensation.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: gender, feminism, family problems, battle of the sexes, rebelliousness, couple relations, rebellion, family life, family relations, couples, hopes, unsupportive spouse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Pleasure of His Company (1961)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Just as San Francisco debutante, Jessica Poole, is set to get married, her absentee father arrives, disrupting the household of his ex-wife. Is he there to break up the wedding? Or to steal back his ex-wife? Or is Pogo finally ready to be a ...
Style: technicolor, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Plot: dancing, love and romance, human nature, family relations, estrangement, couples, breakup, parents and children, family life, wedding, football player, father daughter relationship ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: san francisco, usa, california
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47%
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, adoption, coming of age, parents and children, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, hopes, on the road, obsessive quest, self discovery, escape ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, canada
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47%
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Acceptance (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: "Acceptance" is a movie that is equivalent of being slapped on the wrist by your mother for not being like everyone. Forget about being different from others and being yourself. In the movie it shows how crazy students and parents can get ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: college, college life, family relations, teenage life, student life, optimism, youth, parents and children, obsessive quest, campus, school, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: harvard university
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46%
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Finding Joy (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, couples, writer's life, couple relations, eccentric family, terminal illness, family relations, wooing, unfulfillment, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
American High School (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Small lives begin at the end of high school for this surreal society. A senior who married young must contend with her life, love, and pursuit of individuality and femininity in a narcissistic, misogynistic world of irony. Gwen Adams, her husband ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, teen sex comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: high school, teenager, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, high school life, youth, love triangle, sexy teenager, looking for sex, couple relations, sexual relations ...
Time: 21st century
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46%
Girl in Progress (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, couple relations, coming of age, married man, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, couples, youth, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, seattle
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The Secret Lives of Dorks (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In The Secret Lives of Dorks, Payton (Gaelan Connell) is a pathetic dork, a comic book geek whose high school career is one hopeless faux pas after another. Yet he's a dreamer and madly in love with the head cheerleader Carrie (Riley Voelkel), ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: disorder, misfit, wooing, high school, win over, nothing goes right, youth, social relations, coming of age, girl, college, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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