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Movies that feel like My Girl (1991)

If you loved My Girl, the closest films we have are Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Ghost World (2001) and The Bucket List (2007). All three share My Girl'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, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...

🍅 57% Rotten Tomatoes6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Howard Zieffwittyplayfulcontemplativewarm

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If My Girl hit the spot, these will too

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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 94%7.5comedy · drama

Both are built on the same subject: friendship

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.

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Ghost World
2001 · dir. Terry Zwigoff
🍅 93%7.3comedy · drama

The same mix in both: wit, then play

Two quirky, cynical, teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives following high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle-aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls’ friendship.

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

The same preoccupation in both: friendship

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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Another Round
2020 · dir. Thomas Vinterberg
🍅 93%7.7comedy · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: melancholy

The difference: 29 years apart, and the 2020s show

Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives.

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Son of Rambow
2007 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 73%7comedy

Both lean on warmth more than on comedy

The difference: Missing the stillness of My Girl

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

Witty drama, and it commits to that

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

Contemplative comedy in both cases

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

Drama built on play, twice over

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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Clerks
1994 · dir. Kevin Smith
🍅 90%7.7comedy

Comedy with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

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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I Vitelloni
1953 · dir. Federico Fellini
🍅 100%7.8comedy · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

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Boogie Nights
1997 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 91%7.9drama · comedy

Common ground: 1970s

In 1977, an idealistic porn producer and his promising protege try to catch up with the end of an era before their never-ending party collides with cold, hard reality.

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The Terminal
2004 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 61%7.4comedy · drama

The shared currency is wit

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

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