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Movies that feel like Home Alone 3 (1997)

If you loved Home Alone 3, the closest films we have are Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011) and The Smurfs (2011). All three share Home Alone 3's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Hulu and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top-secret microchip. Now Alex must fend off the spies as they try to break into his house to get it back.

🍅 36% Rotten Tomatoes4.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Raja Gosnellwittyplayfulwarmcozy
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Home Alone (1990) · Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) · Home Alone 4 (2002)

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Cheaper by the Dozen
2003 · dir. Shawn Levy
🍅 25%5.9comedy · family

The same preoccupation in both: family relationships

The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Kate, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands pull the parents away from home, leaving the kids bored -- and increasingly mischievous.

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Mr. Popper's Penguins
2011 · dir. Mark Waters
🍅 47%6comedy · family

Common ground: little boy

Tom Popper is a successful businessman who’s clueless when it comes to the really important things in life...until he inherits six “adorable” penguins, each with its own unique personality. Soon Tom’s rambunctious roommates turn his swank New York apartment into a snowy winter wonderland — and the rest of his world upside-down.

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The Smurfs
2011 · dir. Raja Gosnell
🍅 21%5.4animation · family · adventure

The same hand behind both of them: Raja Gosnell

The difference: Sits closer to animation than Home Alone 3 does

When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours -- in fact, smack dab in the middle of Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down.

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101 Dalmatians
1996 · dir. Stephen Herek
🍅 39%5.8family · comedy

Both land wit and play at once

An evil, high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur coat, but instead creates an extravagant mess.

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Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007 · dir. Steve Bendelack
🍅 50%6.4family · comedy

The same mix in both: warmth, then comfort

Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers France, bicycling and true love, among other things.

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Garfield
2004 · dir. Peter Hewitt
🍅 14%5.1comedy · family

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Garfield, the fat, lazy, lasagna lover, has everything a cat could want. But when Jon, in an effort to impress the Liz - the vet and an old high-school crush - adopts a dog named Odie and brings him home, Garfield gets the one thing he doesn't want. Competition.

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Jingle All the Way
1996 · dir. Brian Levant
🍅 20%5.8family · adventure · comedy

Both lean on play more than on family

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Home Alone 3 does

Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man. Now, Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man action figure.

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Fala Sério, Mãe!
2017 · dir. Pedro Vasconcelos
6.1comedy · family

Warm comedy in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Ângela Cristina, mother of teenager Maria de Lourdes, has to deal with the difficulties and delights of guiding her daughter during one of the most complicated stages of life.

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Doctor Dolittle
1998 · dir. Betty Thomas
🍅 44%5.4comedy · family · fantasy

Family built on comfort, twice over

A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!

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Alibi.com
2017 · dir. Philippe Lacheau
🍅 67%6.5comedy · family

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Greg founded a company called Alibi.com that creates any type of alibi. With his associate, Augustin, and Medhi his new employee, they devise unstoppable stratagems and stagings to cover their clients. But meeting Flo, a pretty blonde who hates men who lie, will complicate Greg's life, which begins by hiding the true nature of his activity. During the presentation to parents, Greg understands that Gérard, the father of Flo, is also one of their clients.

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Addams Family Values
1993 · dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
🍅 76%6.9comedy · family · fantasy

From the 1990s, and it lands the same way

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.

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The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
2004 · dir. Garry Marshall
🍅 25%5.9comedy · drama · family

Both work the same warmth

Mia Thermopolis is now a college graduate and on her way to Genovia to take up her duties as princess. Accompanied by her friend Lilly, Mia continues her 'princess lessons', like riding horses side-saddle and archery. But her already complicated life is turned upside down once again when she learns that she is to take the crown as queen earlier than expected, all while she meets a mysteriously charming young man.

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