Movies Like Where the Heart Is
If you liked Where the Heart Is (2000), a comedy and drama movie directed by Matt Williams, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Juno (2007)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and dramaFaced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.
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What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)
★ 6/10Also romance and comedyChallenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author, while her husband tries…
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Fools Rush In (1997)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and dramaAfter a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions.
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and romanceA group of Southern-California high school students ignore their studies in favor of indulging in their teenage distractions.
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Jersey Girl (2004)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romanceOllie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having…
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He Said, She Said (1991)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaWomanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions…
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Love Everlasting (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also romance and dramaBridger is a young outsider who's always wanted more. He and his mother flee an abusive home, eventually finding a small town in the middle of nowhere. Once there, Bridger finds true acceptance with another misfit.
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For Keeps (1988)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and dramaYoung high school couple Darcy Elliot and Stan Bobrucz are one year from graduation, with promising futures ahead of them. But their paths take a drastic turn when Darcy becomes pregnant. Unwilling to go through an…
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Fatherhood (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and comedyA widowed new dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his daughter on his own. Inspired by a true story.
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Look Both Ways (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also romance and dramaOn the night of her college graduation, Natalie's life splits into parallel realities after she takes a pregnancy test. What will life and love bring?
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Love, Rosie (2014)
★ 7.8/10Also romance and dramaSince the moment they met at age 5, Rosie and Alex have been best friends, facing the highs and lows of growing up side by side. A fleeting shared moment, one missed opportunity, and the decisions that follow send…
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She's Having a Baby (1988)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaJake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly…
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Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and dramaA conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce.
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Stepmom (1998)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceJackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women…
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Son in Law (1993)
★ 6/10Also comedy and dramaCountry 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…
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Home for the Holidays (1995)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaAfter losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.
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Laggies (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and dramaOvereducated and underemployed, 28 year old Megan is in the throes of a quarterlife crisis. Squarely into adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to think about her future and no one to relate to…
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Drive Me Crazy (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and comedyNicole and Chase live next door to each other but are worlds apart. However, they plot a scheme to date each other in order to attract the interest and jealousy of their respective romantic prey. But in the mist of…
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That Old Feeling (1997)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaA bride's divorced parents find their old feelings for each other during the wedding reception and over the course of the next few days upsetting the newlywed's honeymoon.
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Anywhere but Here (1999)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedySingle mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When Adele decides to…