
Movies that feel likeLady Bird (2017)
If you loved Lady Bird, the closest films we have are Mean Girls (2004), The Edge of Seventeen (2016) and Eighth Grade (2018). All three share Lady Bird's contemplative and witty 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).
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If Lady Bird hit the spot, these will too

High school tribes and self-invention skewered with quotable wit
The difference: Broad satire — no mother-daughter ache underneath the jokes

A prickly, self-sabotaging teen heroine written with real affection
The difference: More conventional teen-movie shape — the family thread runs shallower

Adolescent embarrassment observed so closely it hurts to watch
The difference: Younger and more anxious — cringe with far fewer laughs

A self-absorbed senior forced to grow up by someone else's reality
The difference: Cancer sits at its center — whimsy shading into real sorrow

Greta Gerwig working the same nerve twice
The difference: Easier on the wit than Lady Bird

Semi-autobiographical girlhood in a family that embarrasses and sustains
The difference: Scrappier '70s raunch — looser and less precisely observed

The same two preoccupations: growing up, and high school student
The difference: Takes it somewhere less warm than Lady Bird does


Baumbach's own broken family, remembered with wit that draws blood
The difference: Colder and crueler — the parents here are hard to forgive

Both are built on the same subject: loss of virginity
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Two things both keep coming back to: teenage girl and first love
The difference: Sits closer to romance than Lady Bird does

Both keep coming back to the same thing: growing up
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