Best movies like Opposite Day
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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
Best tv shows and movies like Opposite Day (2009):
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Christmas Trade (2015)
Plot Summary:
A career-oriented single father and his 11-year-old son are forced to see their worlds through each other's eyes when some Christmas magic switches their bodies. The pair find themselves growing closer as they scramble to figure out the secret of the magic that caused their predicament in time for Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, family comedy
Similar in 77%
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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Stepsister from Planet Weird (2000)
Plot Summary:
A teenager's life is disrupted when her mother falls in love with an alien.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, teen
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Bob the Butler (2005)
Plot Summary:
Bob, an incompetent man, is searching for an available job by alphabetical order. He had just failed all of the A's, and discovers an ad in the Yellow Pages for a butler school. He is the only one in the butler school course to pass, because all of the other people quit due to the embarrassment and pressure of the teacher. Meanwhile, Tess (Genevieve Buechner) and Bates (Benjamin B. Smith) Jamieson.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, touching, funny, slapstick, independent film, exciting
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The Even Stevens Movie (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Stevens think that they've won an all-expenses-paid trip to an island that's halfway around the world. When their house is destroyed, their food stolen, and their bacon eaten, the Stevens family breaks apart in front of all their friends on live national television, while the island itself is only a short distance away from Sacramento!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, teen
Similar in 79%
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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Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008)
Plot Summary:
While trying to avoid an obsessed girl, rocker Drake Parker meets a young girl, who makes him promise to give her family the best Christmas ever. Later, at the Premiere's first ever Christmas party, a group of teens start to make trouble. Concerned, Josh, Drake's stepbrother, calls the cops about a disturbance, but they are confused and think the entire party is the disturbance, and even arrest the kind Josh. Requiring Josh's help to keep his promise, Drake tries to break his brother out of prison, but is caught. At court, the judge decides that the two must give the girl and her foster family the best Christmas ever, or face years in jail. They face many problems along the way, including Officer Perry, a strict detective that hates Christmas; a colorful group of foster children; and a wild wood chipper. It is up to Drake and Josh to save Christmas for the good-hearted children, or face the consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: christmas special, semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, buddy 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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Miracle (2000)
Plot Summary:
What do you do if you're twelve years old, your mum is a neurotic babbler, your best friend is hitting on the girl you love, and you're the only guy in your class who doesn't yet sport pubes ...? For Dennis P. there's only one way out - pray. In this musical adventure the miracle comes in the shape of an angel clone looking suspiciously like Dennis P.'s late father. The angel issues Dennis P. with a license to perform medium grade miracles, but there's a string attached - Dennis P. must stop using swearwords. Dennis P. throws himself into readjusting his existence. But one miracle leads to another, and the 'adjustments' lead to grotesque consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Family, Musical, Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good, offbeat
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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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It Runs in the Family (1994)
Plot Summary:
It is now summer in the Parker family; and the usual amount of numerous events are happening in their separate lives. Ralphie is searching for the perfect top to use to beat the school bully with, the Old Man is in battle with their hillbilly neighbors, the Bumpus, while eagerly awaiting the discovery of the perfect fishing spot, and the Mother is attempting to collect all of the pieces of a glass china set at a local movie theater.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, melancholic, epic, realistic, slapstick
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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
Similar in 79%
Fidgety Bram (2012)
Plot Summary:
Fidgety Bram (seven years old) thinks a lot about the world around him. He is very much looking forward to enter the first grade. But then he ends up in the class of the strict teacher Mr. Fish. The straightfoward Mr. Fish doesn’t care about the inside world of the constantly moving around and unconcentrated little boy and does whatever it takes to make Bram do things the ‘right’ way.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Mr. Troop Mom (2009)
Plot Summary:
Public Defender Eddie is a widower with a 13 year-old daughter, Naomi. A classic workaholic, Eddie has been M.I.A. for most of Naomi's big moments. But when an unfortunately timed accident gives Eddie the opportunity to become the "Team Mom" for the Killer Bees, Naomi's team in the Spring Action Classic at camp Hulka's Rock, he grabs it.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic
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Babysitters Beware (2009)
Plot Summary:
Seven-year-old Danny Parker is a good kid who loves his parents. But they have to go out on business dinners all the time, leaving him stuck with a sitter. It's not so bad when it's his favorite babysitter, Janelle but he also gets stuck with sitters like Ms. Greene who won't let him have any fun. Danny just wants to spend more time with his Mom and Dad.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Daddy Day Camp (2007)
Plot Summary:
Seeking to offer his son the satisfying summer camp experience that eluded him as a child, the operator of a neighborhood daycare center opens his own camp, only to face financial hardship and stiff competition from a rival camp.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, absurd, not serious, slapstick, funny, family comedy, realistic, slapstick comedy, inspirational
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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 4th (2001)
Plot Summary:
The family is pleasantly surprised and puzzled when Beethoven suddenly becomes obedient. Turns out it's a prince and the pauper scenario, with the real Beethoven now living with a pompous rich family.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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I Heart Shakey (2012)
Plot Summary:
Shakey is a family film about a 35-year-old widower named J.T. O'Neil, his precocious 10-year-old daughter and their devoted mutt Shakey. After moving from a small town to Chicago and missing the fine print in their rental contract, J.T. is forced to try and get rid of his lovable pooch. Shakey and Chandler won't have it and hatch a plan to keep Shakey and teach J.T. a valuable lesson about loyalty and the importance of keeping family together.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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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 76%
Yes Day (2021)
Plot Summary:
A mom and dad who usually say no decide to say yes to their kids' wildest requests — with a few ground rules — on a whirlwind day of fun and adventure.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, smart, family comedy
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Ira Finkelstein's Christmas (2012)
Plot Summary:
All Ira Finkelstein wants for Christmas is...Christmas. Unfortunately, his parents are sending him to Florida to be with his Grandparents. Ira's spirit soars as he manages to land in Christmas Town, USA, instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious
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The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000)
Plot Summary:
A girl steals a weather machine from Santa Claus, to make a snow day. The machine breaks, and causes an out of control snowstorm.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, nostalgic
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Boys Will Be Boys (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two young brothers talk their strict father Lloyd Clauswell into allowing them to babysit themselves for the first time while their parents attend a corporate barbecue.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
Similar in 86%
Golden Winter (2012)
Plot Summary:
A runaway boy befriends a pack of homeless puppies. Together, they stop a bank robbery and find a family to adopt them all.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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All I Want for Christmas (1991)
Plot Summary:
Two New York City children who launch a hilarious scheme to get what they most want this holiday season.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, emotional, offbeat
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13 Going on 30 (2004)
Plot Summary:
After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. With a little magic, her wish is granted, but it turns out that being thirty isn't as always as awesome as she thought it would be!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 210000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, light, funny, romantic comedy, sentimental, cute, teen, entertaining, sweet
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Benji: Off the Leash! (2004)
Plot Summary:
Benji and his friends try to save his mother from a puppy mill.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 668
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Blizzard (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young girl's aunt tells her the tale of a young ice skater and an enchanted reindeer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Change of Plans (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sally and Jason Danville's life are turned upside down when a tragic accident suddenly names them the caretakers of four young children.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 942
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: humorous, sincere, captivating, light, feel good, romantic, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious