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Movies Like Local Commercial

If you liked Local Commercial (2012), a movie directed by Richard Dobbs, 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. 1Lucky Them

    Lucky Them (2013)

    ★ 6/10

    More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what…

  2. 2The Pretty One

    The Pretty One (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10

    When her idolized twin sister Audrey dies in a car accident, Laurel decides to take her place. But, as she eases into the life she has always wanted, she must decide between continuing the lie or revealing herself.

  3. 3Bastard Out of Carolina

    Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as…

  4. 4Holy Lands

    Holy Lands (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10

    When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife…

  5. 5Hounddog

    Hounddog (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

  6. 6A Dry White Season

    A Dry White Season (1989)

    ★ 6.7/10

    During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

  7. 7The Trials of Cate McCall

    The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10

    In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

  8. 8Billy Madison

    Billy Madison (1995)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire, but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2…

  9. 9The Safety of Objects

    The Safety of Objects (2002)

    ★ 6.5/10

    In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband…

  10. 10The Assistant

    The Assistant (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.

  11. 11Love & Sex

    Love & Sex (2000)

    ★ 6.2/10

    When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back…

  12. 12Stargirl

    Stargirl (2020)

    ★ 7.4/10

    An unassuming high schooler finds himself inexplicably drawn to the free-spirited new girl, whose unconventional ways change how they see themselves…and their world.

  13. 13Real Women Have Curves

    Real Women Have Curves (2002)

    ★ 6.1/10

    In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned…

  14. 14Mr. Jealousy

    Mr. Jealousy (1998)

    ★ 5.9/10

    After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriends with jealousy and suspicion. While dating Ramona Ray, paranoia…

  15. 15Taking Care of Business

    Taking Care of Business (1990)

    ★ 6.3/10

    An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.

  16. 16The Trouble with Angels

    The Trouble with Angels (1966)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and…

  17. 17The Souvenir

    The Souvenir (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

  18. 18Fist Fight

    Fist Fight (2017)

    ★ 6/10

    When one school teacher gets the other fired, he is challenged to an after-school fight.

  19. 19The 33

    The 33 (2015)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.

  20. 20The Girl in the Book

    The Girl in the Book (2015)

    ★ 5.8/10

    The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

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