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The Upside (2019)

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • 126 min
  • 12 age guide
  • ★ 7.1/10 from 1,438 ratings

Phillip is a wealthy quadriplegic who needs a caretaker to help him with his day-to-day routine in his New York penthouse. He decides to hire Dell, a struggling parolee who's trying to reconnect with his ex and his young son. Despite coming from two different worlds, an unlikely friendship starts to blossom.

Directed byNeil Burger

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  1. 01

    Stan & Ollie

    Strong story similarity

    2018 · 98 min · Comedy · Drama

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    With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille and Ida – a formidable double act in their own right – the pair's love of performing, as well as for each other, endures as they secure their place in the hearts of their adoring public

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    • strong story and style similarity
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    • a closely matched era
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  2. 02

    Company

    Strong story similarity

    2011 · 146 min · Comedy · Drama

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    Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor questioning his single state and his enthusiastically married, slightly envious friends.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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    Pride

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    2014 · 120 min · Comedy · Drama

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    In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.

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    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • similar audience response
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  4. 04

    Let Them All Talk

    Strong story similarity

    2020 · 113 min · Comedy · Drama

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    A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.

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    • strong story and style similarity
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    • a closely matched era
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  5. 05

    A Bag of Hammers

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    2011 · 85 min · Comedy · Drama

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    Two misfit best friends incapable of growing up, whose direction is tested by an abandoned child, worn beyond his years; together they invent the family they've always needed.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  6. 06

    The Music Never Stopped

    Strong story similarity

    2011 · 105 min · Drama

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    Henry struggles to bond with his estranged son, Gabriel, who suffers from a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories. With Gabriel unable to shed the beliefs and interests that caused their physical and emotional distance, Henry must learn to embrace his son's choices and try to connect with him through music.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
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  7. 07

    Hector and the Search for Happiness

    Strong story similarity

    2014 · 114 min · Adventure · Comedy · Drama

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    Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.

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    • strong story and style similarity
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  8. 08

    Burt

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    2025 · 78 min · Comedy · Drama

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    Burt, a 69-year-old musician with Parkinson’s, has his life turned upside down when a man from New York shows up claiming to be his son. Having always dreamed of being a father, Burt embraces Sammy and invites him to stay for the weekend, where he lives with his grumpy landlord.

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    55 Steps

    Strong story similarity

    2018 · 115 min · Drama

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    The inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they're in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era
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    Our Father's Keeper

    Strong story similarity

    2020 · 92 min · Drama

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    On Thanksgiving, a family struggles to properly care for their father with Alzheimer's disease.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
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