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Movies that feel like Booksmart (2019)

If you loved Booksmart, the closest films we have are Eighth Grade (2018), The Spectacular Now (2013) and Superbad (2007). All three share Booksmart's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Apple TV and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Olivia Wildewittyplayfulwistful

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

The same two preoccupations: growing up, and generation z

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Booksmart does

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 Spectacular Now
2013 · dir. James Ponsoldt
🍅 92%7comedy · drama · romance

Two things both keep coming back to: high school student and teenager

Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in his life and Aimee plans for her future beyond school, an unexpected romance blossoms between them.

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Superbad
2007 · dir. Greg Mottola
🍅 88%7.6comedy

Common ground in both: high school and buddy

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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Step Brothers
2008 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 54%6.9comedy

One thread runs through both: buddy

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbrothers when their single parents marry. Brennan's constant competition with Dale strains his mom's marriage to Dale's dad, leaving everyone to wonder whether they'll ever see eye to eye.

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

The same preoccupation in both: growing up

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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American Reunion
2012 · dir. Jon Hurwitz
🍅 45%6.7comedy

Witty and playful in the same breath

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.

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

Wistful comedy in both cases

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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High School Musical 3: Senior Year
2008 · dir. Kenny Ortega
🍅 64%5comedy · drama · family

Common ground: high school

As seniors in high school, Troy and Gabriella struggle with the idea of being separated from one another as college approaches. Along with the rest of the Wildcats, they stage a spring musical to address their experiences, hopes and fears about their future.

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Cousins
2019 · dir. Mauro Carvalho
6.3comedy · romance · drama

Both are built on the same subject: lgbt

Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail. The clash of reality between the cousins ends up causing unusual situations, and an unexpected attraction among the boys.

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Meu Passado Me Condena: O Filme
2013 · dir. Julia Rezende
5.8comedy

Comedy built on wit, twice over

The difference: None of the wistfulness Booksmart is built on

The immature and cheap douche bag Fábio Clóvis marries the pseudo-intellectual Miá and they travel in a cruise to Europe on board of a fancy passenger vessel. Fabio and Miá are invited to have dinner with the wealthy Beto Assunção and his gorgeous wife Laura in a VIP restaurant on the vessel. Soon Fábio discovers that Beto was Miá's boyfriend and Miá learns that Fábio had a crush on Laura that was his classmate. Meanwhile the cynical chamber maid Suzana Mello and her estranged husband, the entertainer Wilson, make a bet that Fábio and Miá will split before the end of the trip and poison their relationship. When the ship arrives in Casablanca, Fábio meets his bothersome childhood friend Cabeça that affects their honeymoon.

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986 · dir. John Hughes
🍅 85%7.8comedy

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

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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Love, Simon
2018 · dir. Greg Berlanti
🍅 92%7.5comedy · drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: lgbt

Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.

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