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Movies Like Before They Were Stars 2

If you liked Before They Were Stars 2 (2002), a movie, 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. 1Top Secret!

    Top Secret! (1984)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance…

  2. 2Thoroughly Modern Millie

    Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she…

  3. 3A League of Their Own

    A League of Their Own (1992)

    ★ 7.2/10

    As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters…

  4. 4Vegas Vacation

    Vegas Vacation (1997)

    ★ 6/10

    The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas.

  5. 5Rock-a-Bye Baby

    Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)

    ★ 6.9/10

    An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer.

  6. 6Radio Days

    Radio Days (1987)

    ★ 7/10

    The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with…

  7. 7Broadway Danny Rose

    Broadway Danny Rose (1984)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New…

  8. 8Moneyball

    Moneyball (2011)

    ★ 7.3/10

    The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

  9. 9Bowfinger

    Bowfinger (1999)

    ★ 6.2/10

    On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that includes a starry-eyed ingenue, a…

  10. 10Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

    Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012)

    ★ 6.4/10

    It's summertime, and Greg Heffley is looking forward to playing video games and spending time with his friends. However, Greg's dad has other plans: He's decided that some father-son bonding time is in order. Desperate…

  11. 11Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

    Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding…

  12. 12Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

    Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Wimpy Greg Heffley, now in seventh grade, thinks he has it all together. He has mastered middle school and gotten rid of the Cheese Touch. However, Greg's older brother, Rodrick, is itching to cut him down to size. He…

  13. 13Starstruck

    Starstruck (2010)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Pop star Christopher Wilde has fame, fortune and a big-budget Hollywood movie awaiting him. But after meeting Jessica Olson, a down-to-earth girl from the Midwest, he is faced with following his heart or doing what's…

  14. 14Wimbledon

    Wimbledon (2004)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Britain’s Peter Colt has never quite lived up to his dreams of tennis stardom. Once ranked as high as number 11 in the world, the journeyman veteran has watched his number slip to 119 as his confidence on the court…

  15. 15Singin' in the Rain

    Singin' in the Rain (1952)

    ★ 8.1/10

    In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

  16. 16Don't Bother to Knock

    Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

    ★ 6.6/10

    An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.

  17. 17Breath

    Breath (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10

    A pair of teenagers in Western Australia looking to escape the monotony of life in a small town take up surfing lessons from a guy named Sando.

  18. 18Tommy Boy

    Tommy Boy (1995)

    ★ 6.8/10

    To save the family business, two ne’er-do-well traveling salesmen hit the road with disastrously funny consequences.

  19. 19A Good Woman

    A Good Woman (2004)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Erlynne's appearance causes a stir amongst the visiting aristocracy…

  20. 20New York Minute

    New York Minute (2004)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Honors student Jane Ryan heads to Manhattan for a college-scholarship competition. Her rebellious twin Roxy tags along to crash a video shoot. But anything can happen – and does – in a romp involving a pursuing truant…

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