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Movies that feel likeGrown Ups (2010)

After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.

If you loved Grown Ups, the closest films we have are Son of Rambow (2007), The Intern (2015) and Three Men and a Leg (1997). All three share Grown Ups' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Clerks (1994).

🍅 10% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Dennis Duganwittyplayfulwarm
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Grown Ups 2 (2013)

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Son of Rambow
2007 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 73%★ 7comedyParamount+

An unlikely friendship built on shared, slightly absurd energy

The difference: A scrappy kids' film about making a movie, not adult nostalgia

Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.

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The Intern
2015 · dir. Nancy Meyers
🍅 59%★ 7.1comedyParamount+

Warm, low-stakes comedy about people figuring out where they fit now

The difference: A workplace mentorship story, no childhood-friends reunion here

70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.

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Three Men and a Leg
1997 · dir. Aldo Baglio
★ 7.7comedy

A goofy road trip where old friends bicker through absurd errands

The difference: Italian road-comedy chaos over a wooden leg, not a lake-house reunion

Friends Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo cross Italy from north to south for Giacomo's wedding: the father of the bride, a despotic magnate who is both their boss and father-in-law—since Aldo and Giovanni have also married into the family not for love but for money, a fate now awaiting Giacomo—has entrusted them with a priceless piece of modern art, one that looks just like a rather unremarkable wooden leg.

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Happy Gilmore
1996 · dir. Dennis Dugan
🍅 66%★ 7comedyStarz

Dennis Dugan directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore — whose unconventional approach and antics on the green courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin — is determined to win a PGA tournament so he can save his granny's house with the prize money. Meanwhile, an attractive tour publicist tries to soften Happy's image.

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That's Life
1998 · dir. Massimo Venier
★ 7comedy

An unlikely trio bonding through absurd, low-stakes chaos together

The difference: A fugitive road comedy with cops, not a nostalgic friend reunion

While on the run from the police, an unlikely companionship blossoms between a funny con man who just broke out of jail, the bumbling cop whose car he seized at gunpoint, and a nitpicking civilian he unwittingly took hostage.

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Clerks
1994 · dir. Kevin Smith
🍅 90%★ 7.7comedyParamount+

Witty and playful in the same breath

Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.

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Dumb and Dumber To
2014 · dir. Bobby Farrelly
🍅 31%★ 5.6comedy

Old friends falling straight back into old rhythms and dumb jokes

The difference: A cross-country road-trip sequel, not a reunion holiday weekend

20 years since their first adventure, Lloyd and Harry go on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for adoption.

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Just Go with It
2011 · dir. Dennis Dugan
🍅 20%★ 6.4comedy · romanceParamount+

Same director's easygoing, warm-hearted vacation-comedy vibe

The difference: A romantic lie spiraling out of control, not old friends reuniting

While romancing Palmer, a much younger schoolteacher, plastic surgeon Danny Maccabee enlists his loyal assistant Katherine to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, Katherine's kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.

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Let's Be Cops
2014 · dir. Luke Greenfield
🍅 18%★ 6.4comedyStarz

Grown men leaning into a ridiculous bit that snowballs out of hand

The difference: A fake-cop crime caper, not a nostalgic friend-group reunion

Best pals Ryan and Justin are stalled in their respective careers -- a fact that is painfully driven home when they go to a college reunion. Dressed as police in the mistaken belief that they were to attend a costume party, Ryan and Justin find that the uniforms earn them much respect and attention. Although Justin is uncomfortable with the idea, Ryan decides to continue with the charade, putting them both in increasingly dangerous situations. When these newly-minted “heroes” get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.

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The Internship
2013 · dir. Shawn Levy
🍅 34%★ 6.3comedyMax

The same preoccupation in both: friendship

Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.

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50/50
2011 · dir. Jonathan Levine
🍅 93%★ 7.6comedy · drama

Friendship as the thing that gets people through a rough patch

The difference: A cancer diagnosis drama undercutting the comedy, far heavier stakes

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

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The Bucket List
2007 · dir. Rob Reiner
🍅 40%★ 7.3drama · comedy

Old friends reconnecting and reckoning with the years gone by

The difference: A terminal-illness drama, far heavier than a holiday-weekend comedy

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.

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