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Plot Summary:
After Scott has a fight with his father and runs away and when his father refuses to go after him. His mother, Collette, then goes to one of her former boyfriends, Jack, a lawyer, and tells him that he's her son's real father. Jack initially refuses. So she goes to another boyfriend, Dale, who goes off looking for Scott. Eventually the two men meet and realize that they are looking for the same boy and that Collette told them they are the boy's father. What follows is a mad chase, cause the boy doesn't want to go back.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, inspirational, melancholic, road movie, feel good, realistic, not serious, funny, hilarious, retro
Best tv shows and movies like Fathers' Day (1997):
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Southern Belles (2005)
Plot Summary:
Bell and Belle want to break out of their trailer park lives and get up and out to the "Big City" of Atlanta. Just when they think they are on their way to getting a nest egg Bell falls for a handsome police officer named Rhett Butler.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, romantic, ironic, offbeat, independent film, campy
Similar in 82%
Three Days to Vegas (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four grumpy old men go on a road trip from their retired life in Florida to the excitement of Las Vegas in order to stop one of their daughters from marrying the wrong guy.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, feel good, entertaining, light, sincere
Similar in 77%
City Slickers (1991)
Plot Summary:
New York meets the west in this comedy starring Billy Crystal. Three New York business men decide to take a 'Wild West' vacation that turns out to not be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, funny, light, entertaining, captivating, clever, touching, satirical, smart
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Meeting Daddy (2000)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring writer from New York visits his girlfriend's eccentric family in Georgia.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, offbeat
Similar in 83%
Trial and Error (1997)
Plot Summary:
An actor poses as a lawyer to help his sick friend, and problems develop.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, melancholic, talky, feel good, not serious, romantic comedy, realistic, witty, independent film
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Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006)
Plot Summary:
A slovenly cable repairman becomes a big-city health inspector and is tasked with uncovering the source of a food poisoning epidemic.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, melancholic, absurd, feel good, realistic, light, exciting, not serious, parody
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Superstar (1999)
Plot Summary:
Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher, an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be kissed soulfully. She decides she can realize this dream if she becomes a superstar, so her prayers, her fantasies, and her conversations with her only friend focus on achieving super-stardom.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, inspirational, melancholic, feel good, not serious, funny, slapstick, romantic, skit, cult classic
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Career Opportunities (1991)
Plot Summary:
Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalized after she falls asleep in a Target dressing room. She awakens to find herself locked in the store overnight with the janitor, Jim, the town "no hoper" and liar.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, stylized, anamorphic, teen, offbeat, cult film
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Moms' Night Out (2014)
Plot Summary:
Yearning for an evening without their kids, some friends plan a night out. But to do this, their husbands need to watch the kids. What can go wrong?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, inspirational, sweet, entertaining, melancholic, sentimental, not serious, realistic, christian film
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Overnight Delivery (1998)
Plot Summary:
A man suspects his girlfriend of being unfaithful. So he sends her a letter, but than finds out that he was wrong. He has 24 hours to stop the package, prevent a disaster, and fall in love. The only problem is the delivery man will not stop until the package has been delivered.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, humorous, romantic comedy, feel good, talky, realistic, not serious, independent film, funny
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The Kid & I (2005)
Plot Summary:
Aaron Roman (Gores) is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action movie. When his father (Mantegna) grants Aaron his wish for his 18th birthday, he experiences the reality a bit hard to manage.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, semi autobiographical
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Out to Sea (1997)
Plot Summary:
Care-free Charlie (Walter Matthau) cons his widower brother-in-law Herb (Jack Lemmon) into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies. The catch is that they are required to be dance hosts! With a tyrannical cruise director, and the luscious Liz and lovely Vivian, our heroes have lots of mis-adventures before they finally return to port.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, talky, melancholic, semi serious, funny, hilarious, inspirational, realistic
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Peeples (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story follows what happens when a child psychologist surprises his girlfriend by showing up at her political family's annual get-together at their Sag Harbor vacation home only to find them desperately in need of therapy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining, black comedy, realistic
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Son in Law (1993)
Plot Summary:
Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a savvy party animal named Crawl, who convinces the ambivalent Rebecca to stay in the city. When Thanksgiving break rolls around, Rebecca, no longer an innocent farm girl, invites Crawl back to South Dakota, where he pretends to be her fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, feel good, sex comedy, slapstick comedy, romantic comedy, realistic, not serious, hilarious, entertaining
Similar in 84%
My Father the Hero (1994)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: teen, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, remake of french film, cult film
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Grumpier Old Men (1995)
Plot Summary:
A family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and Max. Meanwhile, a sultry Italian divorcée opens a restaurant at the local bait shop, alarming the locals who worry she'll scare the fish away. But she's less interested in seafood than she is in cooking up a hot time with Max.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, melancholic, hilarious, suspense, feel good, humorous, touching, realistic, sad, clever
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License to Wed (2007)
Plot Summary:
Newly engaged, Ben and Sadie can't wait to start their life together and live happily ever after. However Sadie's family church's Reverend Frank won't bless their union until they pass his patented, "foolproof" marriage prep course consisting of outrageous classes, outlandish homework assignments and some outright invasion of privacy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy, light, funny, realistic, cute, hilarious, teen, humorous, stylized
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Dumb and Dumber To (2014)
Plot Summary:
20 years after the dimwits set out on their first adventure, they head out in search of one of their long lost children in the hope of gaining a new kidney.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 143000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: road movie, buddy comedy, humorous, hilarious, slapstick, stylized, not serious, funny, teen, disgusting
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Forget Paris (1995)
Plot Summary:
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches. The story is told in flashback by their friends at a restaurant waiting for them to arrive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, light, sweet, intense, touching, realistic, clever, witty, non fiction
Similar in 84%
Book of Love (1990)
Plot Summary:
John Twiller takes down his high school yearbook and begins to reminiscence about that time he first moved into the neighborhood in 1956. His teenage self, Jack is obsessed with Lily one of the more popular girls around. The sole obstacle is Angelo, her bullying boyfriend. With the help of his pals Crutch, Floyd, and Spider, he makes every attempt possible to change her mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, independent film, teen sex comedy, teen comedy
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Love Hurts (2009)
Plot Summary:
After his wife leaves him, middle-aged Ben Bingham slips into a funk and refuses to change out of his pajamas. Justin, Ben's 17-year-old son, has the cure for what ails his depressed dad: he gives Ben a makeover and pushes him out into the singles scene. Soon Ben is the most popular guy in town, but when Justin falls in love for the first time, Ben must refocus his priorities and set about trying to win back his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, feel good, romantic, touching, realistic, witty
Similar in 81%
Lost & Found (1999)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about finding your true love at any price. Dylan Ramsey resorts to snatching his beautiful neighbor's dog so he can spend time with her while they go on a phantom dog hunt. Succeeding in his plan, Dylan goes to return the pooch, only to discover that it has hidden Dylan's best friend's diamond ring. Written by WARNER BROS.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, sweet, entertaining, funny, light, sexy, sentimental, feel good, witty
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My Boss's Daughter (2003)
Plot Summary:
When a young man agrees to housesit for his boss, he thinks it'll be the perfect opportunity to get close to the woman he desperately has a crush on – his boss's daughter. But he doesn't plan on the long line of other houseguests that try to keep him from his mission. And he also has to deal with the daughter's older brother, who's on the run from local drug dealers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, not serious, sexy, funny, hilarious, feel good, slapstick, erotic, romantic
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America's Sweethearts (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a nasty public breakup of married movie stars, a studio publicist scrambles to put a cap on the escalating situation as the couple's latest film has found it's only print kidnapped by the director.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, romantic, light, satirical, humorous, romantic comedy, clever, witty, realistic
Similar in 87%
Surviving Christmas (2004)
Plot Summary:
Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, he revisit his old childhood home in the hope of reliving some old holiday memories – but he finds that the house in which he was raised is no longer the home in which he grew up.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, funny, entertaining, hilarious, light, captivating, black comedy, teen, happy
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Little Fockers (2010)
Plot Summary:
It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, Jack's suspicions about his favorite male nurse come roaring back. When Greg and Pam's entire clan descends for the twins' birthday party, Greg must prove to the skeptical Jack that he's fully capable as the man of the house.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sexy, feel good, absurd, not serious, realistic, hilarious, parody, light
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Meet the Fockers (2004)
Plot Summary:
Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man, Jack Byrnes and his wife, Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focker's parents. Unlike their happily matched offspring, the future in-laws find themselves in a situation of opposites that definitely do not attract.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 283000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, hilarious, not serious, parody, predictable, romantic, sexy, feel good
Similar in 78%
Nine Months (1995)
Plot Summary:
When he finds out his longtime girlfriend is pregnant, a commitment-phobe realizes he might have to change his lifestyle for better or much, much worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, touching, humorous, romantic, melancholic, sentimental, sweet, semi serious, funny, hilarious
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Enough Said (2013)
Plot Summary:
Eva is a divorced soon-to-be empty-nester wondering about her next act. Then she meets Marianne, the embodiment of her perfect self. Armed with a restored outlook on being middle-aged and single, Eva decides to take a chance on her new love interest Albert — a sweet, funny and like-minded man. But things get complicated when Eva discovers that Albert is in fact the dreaded ex–husband of Marianne.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, feel good, sweet, clever, melancholic, sincere, sentimental, light, realistic
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Meet the Parents (2000)
Plot Summary:
Greg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent Jack Byrnes, at the wedding of Pam's sister. As Greg bends over backward to make a good impression, his visit to the Byrnes home turns into a hilarious series of disasters, and everything that can go wrong does, all under Jack's critical, hawklike gaze.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 350000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, parody, entertaining, hilarious, light, absurd, witty, romantic, romantic comedy