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Movies Like Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story

If you liked Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story (1999), a comedy and drama movie directed by Alan Metzger, 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.

  1. 1Switched for Christmas

    Switched for Christmas (2017)

    ★ 6.5/10Also tv movie and drama

    Identical twins Kate and Chris Lockhart plot to be the other sister – at Kate’s office and Chris’ school – and take on planning their sister’s Christmas events. One rule, though: no romance.

  2. 2The Savages

    The Savages (2007)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and comedy

    A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.

  3. 3While We're Young

    While We're Young (2015)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.

  4. 4Band Aid

    Band Aid (2017)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    A couple who can't stop fighting embark on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage: turning their fights into songs and starting a band.

  5. 5The Suite Life Movie

    The Suite Life Movie (2011)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and tv movie

    Cody and Zack are approached to join the Gemini Project, a high-tech research center studying the dynamics between twins. Shockingly, they find themselves interconnected in a whole new way! When one twin experiences…

  6. 6Young Adult

    Young Adult (2011)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and drama

    A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.

  7. 7The Edge of Seventeen

    The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and drama

    Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.

  8. 8Hannah and Her Sisters

    Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

    ★ 7.5/10Also comedy and drama

    Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

  9. 9Zapped

    Zapped (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10Also tv movie and comedy

    Zoey is a talented dancer whose organized life is rudely disrupted when she moves in with her new step-dad and three step-brothers, until she discovers a dog-training app that can get boys to obey her every command…

  10. 10The Challenge

    The Challenge (2003)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and tv movie

    Estranged twins Lizzie and Shane are chosen for a Survivor-like popular game show with college scholarships as the prize.

  11. 11Half Brothers

    Half Brothers (2020)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama

    Mexican aviation exec Renato is shocked to learn that he has an American half-brother he never knew about: free-spirited Asher. They are forced on a road trip together, tracing the path their father took from Mexico to…

  12. 12Pleasantville

    Pleasantville (1998)

    ★ 7.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when…

  13. 13Sweetie

    Sweetie (1989)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedy

    The buttoned-down, superstitious Kay is attempting to lead a normal existence with her new boyfriend Louis. That’s until Sweetie, her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, returns home after an absence, exposing the rotten…

  14. 14Welcome to the Dollhouse

    Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and drama

    An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with inattentive parents and bullies at school.

  15. 15Little Miss Sunshine

    Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

    ★ 7.7/10Also comedy and drama

    A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

  16. 16Hello Sister, Goodbye Life

    Hello Sister, Goodbye Life (2006)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and tv movie

    A college student must take care of her 7-year-old half sister after the death of their parents.

  17. 17Our Idiot Brother

    Our Idiot Brother (2011)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama

    Everybody has one—the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially upbeat brother, Ned. But…

  18. 18iCarly: iGo to Japan

    iCarly: iGo to Japan (2008)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and tv movie

    Carly, Sam and Freddie kick off their adventure in Japan on a tin can of a plane packed with caged possums and piloted by Spencer's odd acquaintance.

  19. 19American Fiction

    American Fiction (2023)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

  20. 20Adaptation.

    Adaptation. (2002)

    ★ 7.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to…

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