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Plot Summary:
TV remake of 1976 movie Freaky Friday.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: nostalgic
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Munchie (1992)
Plot Summary:
The ever hungry and funny Munchie is back in this sequel to "Munchies".
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Freaky Friday (2018)
Plot Summary:
When an overworked mother and her teenage daughter magically swap bodies, they have just one day to put things right again before mom’s big wedding.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, emotional, entertaining
Similar in 76%
Willy/Milly (1986)
Plot Summary:
Milly is annoyed whenever her mom tells her to behave more appropriate for a girl. She's just not interested in fancy dresses or prom dances. Some day her best friend's little brother offers her a potion which can make her deepest wish come true during a solar eclipse. She goes through with it and ends up with male genitals, additionally. So she has to decide if she wants to life as boy or girl. Her father, who always wanted a son, supports her in checking out life as a boy. Hence Milly changes school and starts out as Willy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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All Screwed Up (2009)
Plot Summary:
FREAKY FRIDAY with a twist. Teenisha (Chyna Lane of PRECIOUS, CADILLAC RECORDS) is your modern geeky teen - smart, suffering from ADD, an outcast at school, and an oddity in her own home. Pete is every girl's dream - star of the sports team, confident, homecoming King, and dating the hottest girl in school. Their lives change when this jock and this science nerd switch bodies during a freak accident!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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The Prince and the Surfer (1999)
Plot Summary:
The classic Twain story "The Prince and the Pauper" gets a modern slant when Prince Edward of Gelfland switches places with Southern California surfer Cash Canty. Both discover a new world of romance, danger, and adventure beyond their wildest dreams.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Thunderstruck (2012)
Plot Summary:
Brian is a 16 year-old who can't play basketball, but he still wants to play like his hero, Kevin Durant. At an Oklahoma City Thunder game, Brian gets chosen to shoot a half court shot which he misses and hits the mascot in the process. Later on, he gets a chance to meet Durant and expresses his desire to play just like him. When Kevin gives Brian the ball, the two unknowingly switch talents.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, sincere
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The Swap (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based on the book by Megan Shull, The Swap follows the adventures of a Rhythmic Gymnast named Ellie with a Make-it-or-Break-it Competition, and the younger brother named Jack in a Hockey Family, who's vying for a varsity spot on his school team. But when a Simple Text causes the two to Swap Bodies, their paths take an Unexpected Cross.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, absurd, fun
Similar in 81%
Munchie Strikes Back (1994)
Plot Summary:
The magical Munchie is back, and if he gets in any more trouble it's off to the dullest constellation in the galaxy. Staying out of trouble has never been easy for Munchie, but this time he gives it his best shot. He is sent to earth and finds himself in the company of the McClelland family. As he proves himself, he becomes mixed up in the family's many problems. Munchie does his best to fulfill his duty on Earth, but not without getting involved in a little mischief. Written by Concorde - New Horizons.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spooky, independent film
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Opposite Day (2009)
Plot Summary:
The world goes backwards on Opposite Day. The kids become adults, and the adults become kids.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating, melancholic, exciting
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The Parent Trap II (1986)
Plot Summary:
Two best friends plot to get their single parents together to stop one of them from moving to New York.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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18 Again! (1988)
Plot Summary:
18 Again! is a 1988 comedy film starring George Burns and Charlie Schlatter. The plot involves a grandson switching souls with his grandfather by means of an accident. This was one of a series of unrelated films, including Like Father, Like Son and Vice Versa, produced in the late 1980s involving a similar plotline.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, sex comedy, romantic comedy, independent film, offbeat, funny
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Vice Versa (1988)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, sentimental, comedy drama, light hearted, feel good, humorous, not serious, romantic, clever
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Like Father Like Son (1987)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Jack Hammond has best chances to become medical superintendent in the clinic. So he's completely absorbed in his work and has no understanding for his teenage son Chris' problems with school. By accident one of them drinks a brain-exchanging serum, and it switches their identities. This leads of course to extraordinary complications in school and at work, but also to insight in the problems and feelings of each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, not serious, inspirational, disgusting, independent film, feel good, unusual plot structure, melancholic, splatter
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Nine Lives (2016)
Plot Summary:
A stuffy businessman finds himself trapped inside the body of his family's cat.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, China, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, light, sweet, humorous, mystic, unusual plot structure, melancholic, surreal, visually appealing
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Wish Upon a Star (1996)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Alexia Wheaton hasn't been herself lately. Neighter has her 15-year-old sister Hayley. In fact they've been each other. Alexia becomes fashion-challenged Hayley and she in turn becomes styling Alexia and the complications come fast furious and funny.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, feel good, humorous, romantic, teen, semi serious, independent film, erotic, exciting
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The Hot Chick (2002)
Plot Summary:
Not only is Jessica Spencer the most popular girl in school -- she is also the meanest. But things change for the attractive teen when a freak accident involving a cursed pair of earrings and a chance encounter at a gas station causes her to switch bodies with Clive, a sleazy crook. Jessica, in the form of the repulsive Clive, struggles to adjust to this radical alteration and sets out to get her own body back before the upcoming prom.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, teen, entertaining, humorous, not serious, slapstick, predictable, teen sex comedy, ironic, sex comedy
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The Last Day of Summer (2007)
Plot Summary:
Luke Malloy is freaking out. He doesn't want tomorrow to come because tomorrow means starting Middle School...saying goodbye to summer break and hello to homework. And even worse, hello to getting picked on by Meat, the terrible torturer of new kids. Luke's dread of tomorrow is casting a shadow on his enjoyment of his last day of summer, so he makes a wish that the Last Day of Summer would last forever... that his one last perfect day of fun and freedom would never end. But when his wish comes true, he discovers that he's stuck repeating the day over and over again, which, as Luke quickly learns, isn't any better. What do you do when the "ultimate do-over" isn't all it's cracked up to be?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, entertaining
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Switched (2020)
Plot Summary:
Tired of being bullied, Cassandra Evans prays that her nemesis, Katie Sharp, the queen bee of social media, would know what it’s like to walk a day in her shoes. Her prayer is answered in an unexpected way when they get switched.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, contemplative, crying
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Leave It to Beaver (1997)
Plot Summary:
Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio - wise father Ward, loving mother June, teen-age son Wally and 8-year-old "Beaver" Theodore. Beaver hopes to get a bike as a gift from his father and to please him tries out for his school football team and he makes it, only to be embarrassed. The bike he gets is quickly stolen. Meanwhile Wally is trying to help his friend Eddie Haskell to get the heart of pretty classmate Karen, but Karen seems to like Wally more, and that leads to tensions between the friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: melancholic, feel good, semi serious, humorous, epic, scary, romantic, sexy, unusual plot structure, sweet
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The Luck of the Irish (2001)
Plot Summary:
A teenager must battle for a gold charm to keep his family from being controlled by an evil leprechaun.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Ramona and Beezus (2010)
Plot Summary:
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. Through all the ups and downs of childhood, Ramona and Beezus learn that anything's possible when you believe in yourself and rely on each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, teen, romantic, uplifting, family comedy, romantic comedy
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Trading Mom (1994)
Plot Summary:
The Martin kids learn of a magic spell that will take them to the 'mommy market' so they can get a more user friendly model. After giving a few other moms a try, they want their own back. But that is not so easy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: epic, mysterious, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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The Shaggy Dog (2006)
Plot Summary:
The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the most important job - being a great dad.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, feel good, semi serious, teen, light hearted, touching, offbeat, psychotronic, funny
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The Shaggy D.A. (1976)
Plot Summary:
Wilby Daniels, a successful lawyer running for District Attorney, suddenly finds himself being transformed into an English sheepdog. Somehow he has to keep his change a secret and find just what is causing it, all the while eluding the local dog catcher.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, slapstick, feel good, semi serious, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, funny, light, touching, unusual plot structure
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The Thirteenth Year (1999)
Plot Summary:
A teen learns that his birth mother is a mermaid after he begins to grow fins and slimy scales on his thirteenth birthday.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, stylized, touching, offbeat, teen, semi serious, teen comedy
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Bogus (1996)
Plot Summary:
Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, fairy tale, uplifting, epic, slang, happy, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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A Simple Wish (1997)
Plot Summary:
Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic wand is broken and the fairies convention is threatened by evil witches Claudia and Boots.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, fairy tale, funny, semi serious, humorous, mysterious, offbeat, light, romantic, clever
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Freaky Friday (1976)
Plot Summary:
School girl Annabel is hassled by her mother, and Mrs. Andrews is annoyed with her daughter, Annabel. They both think that the other has an easy life. On a normal Friday morning, both complain about each other and wish they could have the easy life of their daughter/mother for just one day and their wishes come true as a bit of magic puts Annabel in Mrs. Andrews' body and vice versa. They both have a Freaky Friday.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, teen, humorous, feel good, semi serious, surprise ending, freeze frame, fairy tale, light, philosophical
Similar in 87%
Freaky Friday (2003)
Plot Summary:
Mother and daughter bicker over everything -- what Anna wears, whom she likes and what she wants to do when she's older. In turn, Anna detests Tess's fiancé. When a magical fortune cookie switches their personalities, they each get a peek at how the other person feels, thinks and lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 150000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, teen, light, romantic comedy, humorous, romantic, cute, family comedy, sentimental, happy
Similar in 76%
Matilda (1996)
Plot Summary:
An extraordinarily intelligent young girl from a cruel and uncaring family discovers she possesses telekinetic powers and is sent off to a school headed by a tyrannical principal.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 170000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, fairy tale, humorous, sweet, touching, psychological, mystical, funny, inspirational, uplifting