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Plot Summary:
Sequel to the indie hit, "Once I Was a Beehive" and set about two years after that film took place. The young women and their leaders have grown up (some more than others), and Bree Carrington’s surprise engagement and the whirlwind of wedding planning brings them all back together – with hilarious and touching results.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Aloha Summer (1988)
Plot Summary:
It's the 60s and a bunch of crazy teenagers meet in the beautiful island of Hawaii during their summer holidays. Although they come from different backgrounds, they hang out together and shake up the island! They surf, dance, drink, fight and fall in love. As the summer approaches its end, they find themselves inseparable, friends for a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Surfer Girls (1978)
Plot Summary:
A group of surfer girls vacationing in Hawaii encounter the ghost of the legendary Kahuna. Filmed in StereoVision 3-D.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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My Hawaiian Discovery (2014)
Plot Summary:
Minori Oyamada, a put-upon editor at a travel-guide publishing company, is asked by an old friend to plan her forthcoming wedding party in Hawaii. After persuading her boss that it will be a work trip, Minori departs for Hawaii with the intention to find and marry a rich man. But when Minori arrives, she encounters three different men who complicate her original goal.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration:
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Quick Before It Melts (1964)
Plot Summary:
A magazine reporter and his photographer, on assignment in the Antarctic, attempt to fly in girls to make their chilly lives more enjoyable. Director Delbert Mann's 1964 comedy stars Robert Morse, George Maharis, Anjanette Comer, James Gregory, Michael Constantine, Howard St. John, Norman Fell, Janine Gray, Bernard Fox, Yvonne Craig, Doodles Weaver and Marjorie Bennett.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Test (2012)
Plot Summary:
A guy puts his unwitting bride-to-be through a series of increasingly bizarre "stress tests" to see if she's worthy of marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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An Ideal Husband (1981)
Plot Summary:
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs. Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Honeymoon Hotel (1964)
Plot Summary:
A man left at the alter goes on his honeymoon trip anyway, taking his best man along instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Cider and Sunsets (2022)
Plot Summary:
Marley’s brilliant at organizing other people’s engagements, but unlucky in finding romance herself. When designing her most important proposal yet, the man who could jeopardize it all may be the one who helps find her own love story.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Sons of Provo (2004)
Plot Summary:
Will, Kirby, and Danny are the hottest new sensation in Mormon pop music! Will is an aerobics instructor, Danny is a student of eastern philosophy, and Kirby is a scrapbooking specialist. Together, they make up the band "Everclean" and they have taken the Mormon boy band scene by storm. Sons of Provo chronicles the struggles and successes of a group of boys fighting to become the most spiritual Mormon boy band in history.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, fake documentary
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The Home Teachers (2004)
Plot Summary:
Stocky Greg's passion is football, and he rounds up his family from their respective church meetings and rushes home just in time to make the kick-off of the Sunday afternoon Vikings game. He has just planted himself in front of his massive television screen scarfing down chicken when his new home teaching companion, Nelson, calls to inform him that he has set an appointment to visit the Mori family in 15 minutes. Mormon males serving as home teachers are admonished to visit with their assigned families once a month, bring them a spiritual message, and provide help as necessary. Nelson, a nerdy "letter of the law" kind of Mormon who will not even purchase gas on a Sunday, intends to visit 100 % of his assigned families every month, and as this is the last day of the month even the many madcap mishaps that start immediately will not deter him from completing his duty despite Greg's griping and attempts to get back to the games.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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My 5 Wives (2000)
Plot Summary:
A three times divorced real estate tycoon, who thought he was through with love. Gets more then he bargained for when he invests in some property for a ski resort in Utah.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, surprise ending, independent film, realistic
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Drunk Wedding (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jon and Elissa dreamed of having an epic destination wedding surrounded by their best friends. But their trip to paradise turns into an outrageous drunken weekend they wish they could forget.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Once I Was a Beehive (2015)
Plot Summary:
After losing her father to cancer, a teenage girl reluctantly joins her new step-cousin at a summer camp for Mormon girls.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sad
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Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style (1992)
Plot Summary:
Kelly's grandpa invites the whole clique to his little hotel "The Hideaway" in Hawaii for summer vacation. They expect a marvelous time at the beach - without Belding. Upon arriving, they quickly learn that not only is Belding there, but they also have to help Kelly's grandpa from losing his hotel. Meanwhile Zack meets (again) the love of his live, Jessie and Slater bet with Lisa that they won't fight and Screech gets kidnapped by the Pupuku clan.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Marriage of Figaro (2009)
Plot Summary:
Fig is a knockabout Aussie bloke who loves his lady, his two kids and his Harley, though not necessarily in that order. All in all life is pretty sweet, but when lady Sheree puts the hard word on him to get hitched, everything goes pear-shaped.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978)
Plot Summary:
When a decaying Russian satellite crashes on the island, the Professor uses a key component for a barometer. With that device, he learns that a massive wave is going to swamp the island. In desperation, the castaways lash their huts together into one structure in order to have any chance to ride the disaster out.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, semi serious, surprise ending
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Non-Transferable (2017)
Plot Summary:
Amy Tyler has planned the perfect surprise vacation for her boyfriend Josh Merit. But the real surprise is on her when he breaks things off on their anniversary. Stuck with reservations in her ex-boyfriend's name, Amy's two best friends suggest if Amy can't change the tickets ... why not change the guy?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, scenic
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Lucky (2011)
Plot Summary:
A wannabe serial killer wins the lottery and pursues his lifelong crush.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, dark comedy, light, funny, grindhouse, realistic, semi serious
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Busty Cops Go Hawaiian (2010)
Plot Summary:
Remarkably well-endowed law enforcers investigate a downed satellite lost in the jungles of Hawaii that would give its finder untold erotic powers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, sex comedy
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Pride and Prejudice (2003)
Plot Summary:
Pride & Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy is a 2003 independent film adaptation/updating of Jane Austen's novel, set in modern-day Provo, Utah, at Brigham Young University. The characters are Latter-day Saints (LDS).
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, independent film, realistic
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Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1991)
Plot Summary:
A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult classic, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, nostalgic, cult film
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Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door (2006)
Plot Summary:
Mark Lucas and Theresa Connolly fall in love but their overbearing mothers ruin their wedding plans and possibly their future together.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Suits on the Loose (2005)
Plot Summary:
Suits on the Loose is the story of two rebellious teens, Justin and Ty, and their breakout from a desert survival camp. When two naive Mormon missionaries, Elder Talbot and Elder Johnson, run into a restroom at a remote rest stop, Justin steals their car. Scrapping their military fatigues for the conservative missionaries' tags in hopes of passing through any road blocks, their guise is so good that the police insist upon escorting the escapees directly to New Harmony, the town that's been anxiously awaiting their Mormon missionaries. As the two renegades find themselves embraced by the town's hospitality, they try to map out their escape. With Elder Talbot and Elder Johnson destined to arrive, what will happen when the town of New Harmony discovers that their missionaries are actually on the lam from the law? Can they keep up the charade and fool everyone around them or will they be found out? Written by HaleStorm Entertainment.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Brother Nature (2016)
Plot Summary:
Roger, a straight-laced politician has big plans to propose to his dream girl at her family's lake house. But everything goes awry when he meets his potential brother-in-law Todd: a full-time camp counselor with a heart of gold and a wild sense of fun, pining to be Roger's best friend, and ultimately catapulting him into a series of unfortunate events. As Roger tries to take a stand amidst outrageous fishing excursions, propulsive water jetpacks and American history-themed musicals, he realizes that being a part of a new family may be more difficult than he'd thought.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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A Very Brady Sequel (1996)
Plot Summary:
A man claiming to be Carol Brady's long-lost first husband, Roy Martin, shows up at the suburban Brady residence one evening. An impostor, the man is actually determined to steal the Bradys' familiar horse statue, a $20-million ancient Asian artifact.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, satirical, entertaining, cult classic, feel good, witty, not serious, light
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Special Delivery (2008)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, feel good, suspenseful, semi serious
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Supporting Characters (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two New York film editors balance their personal relationships while reworking a movie in crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, witty, talky, semi serious, mumblecore, independent film
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4 Wedding Planners (2011)
Plot Summary:
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 rejecting her boyfriend's marriage proposal and her two half-sisters are running the business into the ground.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, sincere, feel good, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Mobsters and Mormons (2005)
Plot Summary:
A mafia family from New Jersey is placed in the witness relocation program to an all-Mormon community in Utah.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Get a Job (2011)
Plot Summary:
In order to save his own job, an employment agent has to find work for the most unemployable man on Maui.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, buddy comedy, contemplative