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Movies Like The Accidental Golfer

If you liked The Accidental Golfer (1991), a comedy movie directed by Lasse Åberg, 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. 1Happy Gilmore 2

    Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    Happy Gilmore isn't done with golf — not by a long shot. Since his retirement after his first Tour Championship win, Gilmore returns to finance his daughter's ballet classes.

  2. 2Happy Gilmore

    Happy Gilmore (1996)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy

    Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore — whose unconventional approach and antics on the green courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin — is determined to win a PGA tournament so he can save his granny's…

  3. 3Thunderstruck

    Thunderstruck (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.

  4. 4Mr. Bones

    Mr. Bones (2001)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament.

  5. 5Big Business

    Big Business (1988)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The…

  6. 6The Three Stooges

    The Three Stooges (2012)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy

    Left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns, three newborn knuckleheads grow up to be finger-poking, nyuk-nyuking janitors named Larry, Curly and Moe. When they learn that financial problems will soon force the…

  7. 7Much Ado About Nothing

    Much Ado About Nothing (2013)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.

  8. 8Woody Woodpecker

    Woody Woodpecker (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    Woody Woodpecker enters a turf war with a big city lawyer wanting to tear down his home in an effort to build a house to flip.

  9. 9The Air Up There

    The Air Up There (1994)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home…

  10. 10The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

    The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)

    ★ 7.3/10Also comedy

    A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes. He sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling.

  11. 11Candy Cane Lane

    Candy Cane Lane (2023)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    Determined to win the neighborhood's annual Christmas decorating contest, family man Chris makes a pact with an elf to help him out-do the competition. However, the elf casts a spell bringing the twelve days of…

  12. 12Last Vegas

    Last Vegas (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    Aging pals Billy, Paddy, Archie, and Sam have been best friends since childhood. When Billy finally proposes to his much-younger girlfriend, all four friends go to Las Vegas to celebrate the end of Billy's longtime…

  13. 13In & Out

    In & Out (1997)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.

  14. 14Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

    Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    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…

  15. 15The Dink

    The Dink (2026)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    Desperate to save a struggling country club and earn his father's respect, a washed-up tennis pro is compelled to break a sacred vow and do the unthinkable: play pickleball.

  16. 16The Sandlot 2

    The Sandlot 2 (2005)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    A decade has passed in the small town where the original Sandlot gang banded together during the summer of ’62 to play baseball and battle the Beast. Now, back at the dugout, nine new kids descend on the diamond only…

  17. 17Duplex

    Duplex (2003)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!

  18. 18Old Boys

    Old Boys (2018)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    In the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.

  19. 19Support Your Local Gunfighter

    Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

  20. 20DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story

    DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight…

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