Movies Like Father's Little Dividend
If you liked Father's Little Dividend (1951), a romance and comedy movie directed by Vincente Minnelli, 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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Father of the Bride Part II (1995)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyJust when George Banks has recovered from his daughter's wedding, he receives the news that she's pregnant ... and that George's wife is expecting too. He was planning on selling their home, but that's a plan that—like…
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Meet the Fockers (2004)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romanceHard-to-crack ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet the parents of their son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focker. Unlike their happily matched offspring, the future in-laws find…
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Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyWhen a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?
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Father of the Bride (1991)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyGeorge Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 22 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can't think of what life would be like without his daughter. His wife…
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Run Fatboy Run (2007)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romanceFive years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back.
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The Pod Generation (2023)
★ 6/10Also comedy and romanceIn a not-so-distant future, couples can share pregnancy on a more equal footing via detachable artificial wombs. While botanist Alvy has doubts about this new way of birthing babies, his love for Rachel prompts him to…
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One Fine Day (1996)
★ 6.5/10Also romance and comedyMelanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets…
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Christmas Getaway (2017)
★ 7/10Also romanceWhen a reservation mix-up at a mountain resort forces a newly-single travel writer to share a cabin with a handsome widower and his precocious daughter over the holidays, their lives are transformed by the magic of…
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Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyThe Baker family, while on vacation, find themselves in competition with a rival family of eight children.
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Just Go with It (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and romanceWhile romancing Palmer, a much younger schoolteacher, plastic surgeon Danny Maccabee enlists his loyal assistant Katherine to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies…
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The Back-Up Plan (2010)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and romanceWhen Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe…
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Yours, Mine & Ours (2005)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romanceAdmiral Frank Beardsley returns to New London to run the Coast Guard Academy, his last stop before a probable promotion to head the Guard. A widower with eight children, he runs a loving but tight ship, with charts and…
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Houseboat (1958)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romanceAn Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
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Daddy's Home (2015)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyThe story of a mild-mannered radio executive who strives to become the best stepdad ever to his wife's two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling, freeloading real father arrives, forcing stepdad to…
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Ramona and Beezus (2010)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyRamona 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…
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Because I Said So (2007)
★ 5.8/10Also romance and comedyIn an effort to prevent family history from repeating itself, meddlesome mom Daphne Wilder attempts to set up her youngest daughter, Milly, with Mr. Right. Meanwhile, her other daughters try to keep their mom's good…
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3 Men and a Little Lady (1990)
★ 5.8/10Also comedySylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary with her, the three men are heartbroken at losing the two most…
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Falling for Christmas (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedyAn engaged, spoiled hotel heiress finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter after getting amnesia in a skiing accident.
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The War with Grandpa (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also comedyPeter is thrilled that his Grandpa is coming to live with his family. That is, until Grandpa moves into Peter's room, forcing him upstairs into the creepy attic. And though he loves his Grandpa, he wants his room back…
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Noelle (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyKris Kringle's daughter, Noelle, sets off on a mission to find and bring back her brother, after he gets cold feet when it's his turn to take over as Santa.