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Plot Summary:
Jason and Maggie Seaver are ready to start a new chapter in their lives. The nest is finally empty, they've put the family home up for sale, and they're preparing to spend their retirement years traveling. But all that's easier said than done as Mike and a very pregnant Carol, each with their own agenda for wanting their parents to stay put, team up to sabotage the move. At the same time, little brother Ben, now a realtor, needs the big sale of his parents' home to please his boss. Meanwhile, Chrissie, an aspiring singer, just wants to get out from under her parents' watchful gaze so she can launch her career as a rock star.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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The Growing Pains Movie (2000)
Plot Summary:
"The Growing Pains Movie" is the first of two reunion movies based on the sitcom "Growing Pains". When the Seaver family reunites in Washington, D.C., to celebrate Jason (Alan Thicke) and Maggie's (Joanna Kerns) 30th wedding anniversary, Maggie startles everyone when she announces her plans to run for a congress.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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Chris Gethard Presents (2019)
Plot Summary:
Chris Gethard returns to his public access roots with a no-holds-barred comedy showcase. See Chris' favorite comics serve it up hot n' fresh (and by any means necessary).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
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What Children Do (2017)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about two estranged sisters brought back into each other's lives by the impending death of their grandmother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas (1985)
Plot Summary:
A made for Showtime network comedy special with numerous skits and music starring Martin Short and featuring a number of his fellow SCTV cast members. The special has skits with characters such as Ed Grimley, Jackie Rogers Jr., Jerry Lewis, and many more.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, sketch comedy
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Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again (1990)
Plot Summary:
The classic comic book characters created by John L. Goldwater are brought to tv in a slightly older version. Here the characters are adults returning to their high school reunion and remembering old times and romances from good old Riverdale High.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Tucker Therapy (2019)
Plot Summary:
In order to win a promotion at work, a frustrated father tricks his dysfunctional family into a week of family therapy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, christian film
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The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (1981)
Plot Summary:
Jed Clamplett and his backwoods family help solve an energy crisis in their own rustic ways for their Beverly Hills neighborhood they still cannot adjust to.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Wedding March (2016)
Plot Summary:
When former college sweethearts Olivia Pershing and Mick Turner are unexpectedly reunited the weekend of Olivia's wedding, the former couple initially locks horns but as the events of the weekend unfold, Olivia and Mick find old feelings rising to the surface. Will the bride-to-be walk down the aisle as planned or will she decide to give her first love a second chance?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 999
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, emotional
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Return to Green Acres (1990)
Plot Summary:
Tv movie that reunites most the show's cast members. The Douglases move back to New York. But when Haney tries to get everyone's property so that a developer can build on them, the residents go to New York to get Douglas to help them. But he's a little hesitant.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Return of the Jackalope (2006)
Plot Summary:
Mockumentary about a producer who attempts to reunite the cast and crew of the horror B-movie, "Curse of the Jackalope," for a 10-year reunion screening.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: mockumentary, fake documentary
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The Brady Bunch in the White House (2002)
Plot Summary:
Mike Brady becomes the President of the United States, and names Carol as his V.P.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: parody, not serious, humorous, witty, political, spoof, political comedy
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The Brady Girls Get Married (1981)
Plot Summary:
Made-for-tv movie, the pilot for a "Brady Bunch" revival series, "The Brady Brides." Jan and Marcia have met the men of their dreams and decide to tie the knot. They agree to hold the weddings together in the family's back yard, but fight over whether to have a modern ceremony or a traditional one. Can the marriages be saved? All of the original cast members (except cousin Oliver) put in a return appearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sitcom, tv series pilot
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Lake Effects (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sara and Lily grew up at Smith Mountain Lake. Sara became estranged from the family and without explanation moved to Los Angeles to study law. Her sister Lily, an artist, teaches locally and lives with their parents, Ray and Vivian, until Dad dies in an accident. Sara returns to help settle his estate, and all our ladies cross paths with an eclectic group of local oddballs, as they search for a Loch Ness-style monster they believe lurks in the lake's depths. A few real Smith Mountain Lake characters make appearances. The next week at the lake is filled with adventure, tears, and laughter as Vivian and her two daughters finally understand, through the guidance of Dad's spirit, if they still belong on the lake, even though Ray is gone. All paths converge at the Smith Mountain Lake Wine Festival, on course for a heart-warming and hilarious collision. Written by Mike McKay.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, humorous, emotional, captivating, sentimental, semi serious
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Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis (1988)
Plot Summary:
It is nearly a generation since we've visited Dobie Gillis, and the middle-aged Dobie is nothing like he was as a youth, having has sown all of his wild oats. He's settled into the predictable adult life, married to the reliable Zelda (who was chasing him all through high-school), and assumed his father's role of running the family variety store. All of a sudden, key industries in the town shut down, putting hundreds out of work and severely threatening the local economy. Dobie, as head of the town council, is looked upon to lead the town out of this desperate crisis. When all seems lost, life-long friend Maynard G. Krebs appears, representing an old acquaintance who has a strange demand.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, sitcom, semi serious
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Hollidaysburg (2014)
Plot Summary:
Home for Thanksgiving break after their first semester at college, five friends discover just how much things change (and don't) after high school.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, independent film
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These Old Broads (2001)
Plot Summary:
"These Old Broads" is a 2001 television film written by Carrie Fisher and starring her mother Debbie Reynolds, as well as Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor in her final starring film role. Network television executive Gavin (Nestor Carbonell) hopes to reunite celebrated Hollywood stars Piper Grayson (Reynolds), Kate Westbourne (MacLaine), and Addie Holden (Collins) in a TV special after their 1960s movie musical "Boy Crazy" is re-released in the 1990s. Though the three women share the same agent, Beryl Mason (Taylor), Gavin's seemingly insurmountable obstacle is that they all cannot stand each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, biting, suspense
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A Very Brady Christmas (1988)
Plot Summary:
Almost 20 years after the start of the original "Brady Bunch" the kids are grown up and have kids of their own. Everyone is having a wonderful time back at the family house for Christmas, until Mike learns of a structural problem in one of the buildings he designed. As he is inspecting the problem, the building collapses, trapping him inside. As the whole family waits by the pile of rubble, they fear the worst. Will Dad be all right?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1995)
Plot Summary:
By accident, the content of a computer encyclopedia is transferred into the brain of Dexter Riley, a less than average college boy. Because of his newly acquired knowledge he competes in a quiz show between various universities, where he sweeps all the points. A wiz kid from another university finds out about his cheated wisdom and does everything to discredit Dexter.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Not Quite Human (1987)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Jonas Carson, a scientist, invents Chip, an android teenager. Dr. Carson sends Chip to school with his daughter Becky to see whether an android could interact with others. But his former employer decides to try and make a profit by stealing the mechanical boy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious
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Still Not Quite Human (1992)
Plot Summary:
In the final film of the series, Chip and his "father" attend a robotics convention. Here, Dr. Carson is kidnapped and replaced by an android. Can Chip and his newfound friends save Dr. Carson from a dangerous competitor?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Project: ALF (1996)
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Six years ago, the space alien, ALF, was on his way back to his new home...When the Alien Task Force finally caught him. Now, the story continues to where the series ended. ALF is now protected by the Alien Task Force, but the leader wants to terminate ALF. So two officers decide to save ALF by taking ALF away from him. But the man the officers took ALF to wants to finally reveal ALF to the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, semi serious
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Savannah Smiles (1982)
Plot Summary:
The young daughter of a politician runs away due to lack of attention. She hides in the car of two not too bright crooks who are slowly converted into parent figures as the police web closes down on the supposed kidnappers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: entertaining, touching, epic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, detective, sentimental, light
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Saving Christmas (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kirk is enjoying the annual Christmas party extravaganza thrown by his sister until he realizes he needs to help out Christian, his brother-in-law who has a bad case of the bah-humbugs.
IMDB Rating: 1.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, light, controversial, disgusting, freeze frame, independent film
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Together Again for the First Time (2008)
Plot Summary:
"Together Again for the First Time" tells the story of a blended family reuniting on Christmas Eve. It's the first time they've all been in the same house at the same time since the parent's marriage seven years before--which wouldn't be a problem if they all liked each other. But they don't. And matters only get worse with the unexpected arrival of an ex-boyfriend, an unannounced live television broadcast, and the outing of well-kept family secrets. This is a comic, touching movie about what it means to be a family--even when you don't like each other very much.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, christmas comedy, realistic, semi serious
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The ButterCream Gang (1992)
Plot Summary:
Unlike most gangs, the ButterCream gang does good deeds. Their leader, Pete, has to go live with his aunt in Chicago. But things don't go well in Chicago and Pete is changed when he returns. Soon Pete is hanging around with the wrong crowd. But the remaining members of the gang, especially their new leader Scott, refuse to give up on their friend Pete.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: epic, independent film, touching, serious, realistic
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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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Growing Pains (1985)
Plot Summary:
Growing Pains is an American television sitcom about an affluent family, residing in Huntington, Long Island, New York, with a working mother and a stay-at-home psychiatrist father raising three children together, which aired on ABC from September 24, 1985, to April 25, 1992.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, iconic, nostalgic
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Beethoven's 3rd (2000)
Plot Summary:
Everyone's favorite St. Bernard returns in this family film about man's best friend. Richard Newton, his wife Beth and kids Brennan and Sara shove off in their camper for a road trip. Along the way, they gain a new passenger: slobbery Beethoven. The Newtons plan to return Beethoven to his owner -- but not before he turns hero when a pair of thieves enter the picture.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Family, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, independent film, feel good
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Beethoven's Big Break (2008)
Plot Summary:
Eddie, a struggling animal trainer and single dad suddenly finds himself the personal wrangler for a large and lovable St. Bernard whose fabulous movie "audition" catapults the dog to stardom. However, a trio of unscrupulous ne'er-do-wells have plans to kidnap the famous dog and hold him for ransom.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Not Quite Human II (1989)
Plot Summary:
Chip, the android boy is back. This time, he is off to college, suffering from a computer virus and in love with Roberta, another android. Will there be a happy ending?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious