Movies Like Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas
If you liked Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas (1977), a comedy and drama movie directed by Norman Abbott, 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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Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)
★ 6/10Also comedy and dramaWhen a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!
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Roll Bounce (2005)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and dramaIn the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit a different rink.
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Foster (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and dramaLooking to adopt a child and unable to conceive a child of their own, the Morrisons' lives are turned upside down when a seven-year-old boy unexpectedly shows up on their doorstep.
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A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
★ 6.2/10Also family and comedyWhen Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with…
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Chang Can Dunk (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also family and comedyChang, a 16-year-old, Asian American, bets the high school basketball star that he can dunk by Homecoming. The bet leads 5' 8" Chang on a quest to learn to dunk—not only to impress his crush, Kristy, but to gain the…
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Free Rein: The Twelve Neighs of Christmas (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and dramaAs Bright Fields preps for its Mistletoe Ball, a broken ornament leads Zoe to a family secret, while Gaby finds herself at the mercy of new boss Mia.
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Thunderstruck (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and familyAfter 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.
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Recess: All Growed Down (2003)
★ 6.5/10Also family and comedyT.J. and The Recess Gang are kidnapped by the Third Street School's kindergartners, who are in turn being bullied by a new kid in their class.
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Six Pack (1982)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and comedyStopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn…
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A Very Brady Christmas (1988)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and familyAlmost 20 years after the start of the original "Brady Bunch" the kids are grown up and have kids of their own. Everyone is having a wonderful time back at the family house for Christmas, until Mike learns of a…
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The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and dramaA happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter, Cordelia Drexel Biddle, tires of the unusual antics of her…
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Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown (2011)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and familyLinus is pushed to his limits when he learns Grandma is coming to visit and plans on ridding him of his childish security blanket.
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 (2011)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and familyPuppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents Papi and Chloe upside down when their rambunctious, mischievous puppies present one challenge after another. But when their human owners end up in trouble, the…
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Tom and Jerry Cowboy Up! (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and familyThis time, the rivals team up to help a cowgirl and her brother save their homestead from a greedy land-grabber, and they’re going to need some help! Jerry’s three precocious nephews are all ready for action, and Tom…
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See Spot Run (2001)
★ 6.1/10Also family and comedyA drug sniffing agent canine is a target for an assassin boss so the FBI calls Witness Protection to send him somewhere else. Meanwhile a single Mom puts her 6 year old boy James in the care of her irresponsible…
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The Loud House Movie (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also family and comedyThe Loud family travel to Scotland and discover they are descendants of Scottish royalty as they move into their giant ancestral castle.
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iParty with Victorious (2011)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and familyCarly discovers her boyfriend Steven Carson has been cheating on her with Tori Vega, so the gang flies out to Los Angeles where they meet Tori and the gang from Hollywood Arts. They attend a party hosted by Kenan…
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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also family and comedyThe Great Depression hits home for nine year old Kit Kittredge when her dad loses his business and leaves to find work. Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin stars as Kit, leading a splendid cast in the first ever "American…
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The Clique (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaA young girl tries to fit in with a clique of popular middle school girls after moving into the guest house of one of their homes.
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A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and familyFred is cast as Ebenezer Scrooge in a stage adaption of the classic Christmas story, but is acting a bit stingy in real life.