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Movies that feel likePalm Springs (2020)

When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.

If you loved Palm Springs, the closest films we have are Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), The Man from the Future (2011) and 50 First Dates (2004). All three share Palm Springs' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Trainwreck (2015).

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Max Barbakowwittyplayfulromanticcerebral
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Safety Not Guaranteed
2012 · dir. Colin Trevorrow
🍅 91%★ 6.9comedy · romance · science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: time travel

Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.

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The Man from the Future
2011 · dir. Cláudio Torres
★ 7comedy · fantasy · science fiction

Common ground: time travel

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than Palm Springs does

Zero is a brilliant scientist. However, 20 years ago, he was publicly humiliated when he lost Helena, the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions causes him to travel back in time to 1991. Having taken the opportunity to change history, Zero returns to own time to find totally changed.

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50 First Dates
2004 · dir. Peter Segal
🍅 45%★ 6.8comedy · romanceParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: romcom

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because the delightful Lucy has no short-term memory, so Henry must woo her day after day until he finally sweeps her off her feet.

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The Nutty Professor
1996 · dir. Tom Shadyac
🍅 64%★ 5.7comedy · science fiction · romance

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, genetic professor Dr. Sherman Klump grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and win her heart. So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum, Sherman becomes 'Buddy Love', a fast-talking, pumped-up, plumped down Don Juan.

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Crazy Rich Asians
2018 · dir. Jon M. Chu
🍅 91%★ 6.9comedy · romanceMax

Both are built on the same subject: wedding

The difference: Easier on the ideas than Palm Springs

An American-born Chinese economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous.

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Trainwreck
2015 · dir. Judd Apatow
🍅 84%★ 6.2comedy · romance

One thread runs through both: alcohol

Ever since her father drilled into her head that monogamy isn't realistic, magazine writer Amy has made promiscuity her credo. As much as she enjoys an uninhibited life free of commitment, Amy is really in a rut. While writing a profile about charming and successful sports doctor Aaron Conners, she finds herself actually falling in love for the first time -- and what's more, Aaron seems to really like her too. Amy starts to wonder if it's time to clean up her act and face her fears.

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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018 · dir. Ol Parker
🍅 80%★ 6.6comedy · romanceRent or buy

The same preoccupation in both: romcom

Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophie’s biological father.

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Set It Up
2018 · dir. Claire Scanlon
🍅 92%★ 6.5romance · comedyNetflix

Romantic comedy, and it commits to that

Two overworked and underpaid assistants come up with a plan to get their bosses off their backs by setting them up with each other.

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Anyone but You
2023 · dir. Will Gluck
🍅 53%★ 6.1romance · comedyHulu

Both lean on wit more than on romance

After an amazing first date, Bea and Ben’s fiery attraction turns ice cold — until they find themselves unexpectedly reunited at a destination wedding in Australia. So they do what any two mature adults would do: pretend to be a couple.

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Long Shot
2019 · dir. Jonathan Levine
🍅 82%★ 6.8comedy · romance

Science fiction with a pulse of play, in both cases

Journalist Fred Flarsky reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Field, now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter — much to the dismay of her trusted advisers.

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Blended
2014 · dir. Frank Coraci
🍅 15%★ 6.5comedy · romance

Romantic comedy in both cases

Recently divorced mom Lauren and widowed dad Jim let their friends push them into a blind date, which goes disastrously wrong. Unsurprisingly, neither wants to see the other ever again. However, fate intervenes when both Jim and Lauren, unbeknownst to each other, purchase one-half of the same vacation package at a South African resort for families, during spring break. They and their children are forced to share the same romantic suite and participate in a slew of family activities together.

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What Happens in Vegas
2008 · dir. Tom Vaughan
🍅 25%★ 6.1comedy · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: wedding

During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the sober realization that they have married each other after a night of drunken abandon. They are then compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.

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