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Movies that feel likeEasy A (2010)

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.

If you loved Easy A, the closest films we have are Booksmart (2019), Superbad (2007) and Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). All three share Easy A'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).

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Will Gluckwittyplayfulwistfulcozy
7 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Hulu · Disney Plus

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

Two things both keep coming back to: high school and growing up

The difference: Trades the comfort of Easy A for an angle of its own

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+

One thread runs through both: school

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: teen movie

The difference: 24 years apart, and the 1980s show

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

Common ground: high school student

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Easy A 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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High School Musical 3: Senior Year
2008 · dir. Kenny Ortega
🍅 64%★ 5.1comedy · drama · familyDisney+

Both are built on the same subject: 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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Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021 · dir. Jason Reitman
🍅 63%★ 7fantasy · comedy · adventureHuluStarz

The same preoccupation in both: small town life

When single mom Callie and her two kids Trevor and Phoebe arrive in a small Oklahoma town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.

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

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

Both are built on the same subject: loss of virginity

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: 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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Eighth Grade
2018 · dir. Bo Burnham
🍅 99%★ 7.3comedy · dramaNetflix

Comedy built on wistfulness, twice over

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

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

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

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

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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