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Movies that feel likeAmerican Reunion (2012)

The characters we met a little more than a decade ago return to East Great Falls for their high school reunion. In one long-overdue weekend, they will discover what has changed, who hasn’t, and that time and distance can’t break the bonds of friendship.

If you loved American Reunion, the closest films we have are Booksmart (2019), Superbad (2007) and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015). All three share American Reunion's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Slums of Beverly Hills (1998).

🍅 45% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jon Hurwitzwittyplayfulwistful
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: American Pie (1999) · American Pie 2 (2001) · American Wedding (2003)

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Booksmart
2019 · dir. Olivia Wilde
🍅 96%★ 7.1comedyRent or buy

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one night.

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Superbad
2007 · dir. Greg Mottola
🍅 88%★ 7.6comedyApple TV+Paramount+

Both lean on wistfulness more than on comedy

Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
2015 · dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
🍅 81%★ 7.7drama · comedyRent or buy

Comedy built on wit, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into drama than American Reunion does

Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.

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Eighth Grade
2018 · dir. Bo Burnham
🍅 99%★ 7.3comedy · dramaNetflix

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

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The Squid and the Whale
2005 · dir. Noah Baumbach
🍅 91%★ 7.3comedy · dramaNetflix

Both work the same wistfulness

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986 · dir. John Hughes
🍅 85%★ 7.8comedyApple TV+Paramount+

Both sit in the same witty register

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.

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3 Idiots
2009 · dir. Rajkumar Hirani
🍅 94%★ 8.4drama · comedy

The shared currency is play

Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like "Rancho." From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious university, Rancho's outlandish schemes turn the campus upside down—along with the lives of his two newfound best friends. Together, they make life miserable for "Virus," the school’s uptight and heartless dean. But when Rancho catches the eye of the dean's daughter, Virus sets his sights on flunking out the "3 idiots" once and for all.

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Slums of Beverly Hills
1998 · dir. Tamara Jenkins
🍅 82%★ 6.7comedy · drama

Both run wistful where it counts

In 1976, a teenage girl struggles to cope while living with her neurotic lower-middle-class family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

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Vacation
2015 · dir. John Francis Daley
🍅 27%★ 6.2comedy · adventureParamount+

Both are comedy through and through

Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold takes his wife and their two sons on a cross-country road trip to the coolest theme park in America, Walley World. Needless to say, things don't go quite as planned.

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Rushmore
1998 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 90%★ 7.6comedy · drama

Cut from the same comedy cloth

When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.

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Easy A
2010 · dir. Will Gluck
🍅 85%★ 7comedyApple TV+Paramount+

Comedy of the same temperament

Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor. With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents and a little help from a long-time crush, Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople
2016 · dir. Taika Waititi
🍅 97%★ 7.8adventure · comedy · dramaPrime VideoPeacock

The same comedy instincts

Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.

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