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Movies that feel like The Change-Up (2011)

If you loved The Change-Up, the closest films we have are Instructions Not Included (2013), If I Were You (2006) and What a Beautiful Day (2011). All three share The Change-Up's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 2 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount Plus Premium and Starz and others, checked against today's data.

Lifelong friends Dave and Mitch are envious of the other's life. Mitch thinks Dave has it all: a beautiful, loving family and a high-paying job at a prestigious law firm. But Dave thinks Mitch’s stress-free playboy life without obligation or consequence is the real dream come true. One fateful drunken night, they both admit that they wish they had the other’s life while peeing in a fountain when lightning strikes. The next morning, they wake up, hungover, in each other’s bodies! With time not on their side, Mitch and Dave comically struggle to avoid completely destroying each other’s lives before they can find a way to get their old ones back.

🍅 26% Rotten Tomatoes6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Dobkinwittyplayful

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Instructions Not Included
2013 · dir. Eugenio Derbez
🍅 63%7.5comedy · drama

Both are built on the same subject: bachelor

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.

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If I Were You
2006 · dir. Daniel Filho
🍅 13%6.1comedy · fantasy

Common ground: body-swap

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than The Change-Up does

The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other.

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What a Beautiful Day
2011 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
6.3comedy

Both land wit and play at once

Checco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral examination Checco said that the reason why he wanted to join the police was benefits in kind and cronyism! But the young man has connections and he soon finds himself a security agent at the Milan Cathedral. Of course the bumbling idiot proves a living catastrophe! Spotted by Sufien, an Arab terrorist who is preparing an attack against the cathedral, Checco appears as the perfect sucker. To manipulate him, he sends his charming sister Farah to him, with the mission to seduce him...

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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
2013 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 74%6.3comedy

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.

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Sun in Buckets
2013 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
6.3comedy

Playful comedy in both cases

The story of a father and a son. An on the road trip from South to North.

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The Invisible Woman
2009 · dir. Cláudio Torres
6.3comedy

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

A man is abandoned by his wife and then falls in love with his neighbor, the perfect, ideal woman. The only problem: she doesn't exist!

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Welcome to the South
2010 · dir. Luca Miniero
6.6comedy

A streak of play through both

Alberto, post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia, is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...

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Cado dalle nubi
2009 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
6.5comedy

The comedy is handled with the same confidence

An aspiring singer from southern Italy who's just been dumped moves north to Milan, where he falls in love and enters a TV singing competition show.

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The Santa Claus Gang
2010 · dir. Paolo Genovese
5.9comedy

Both working the same comedy territory

On Christmas Eve, three friends dressed as Santa Claus are arrested in what looks like an attempted burglary and charged with being the infamous "Santa Claus Gang". While trying to prove their innocence to the police, the trio explains why they found themselves in such a strange situation...

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Head Over Heels
2010 · dir. Roberto Santucci
5.7comedy

Comedy in the same key

After being left by her husband and fired from her work, a workaholic, thirtysomething businesswoman is forced to go through a big change in her life and becomes a partner on a decadent sex shop.

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My Mom Is a Character
2013 · dir. André Pellenz
6.8comedy

Both know what they want from comedy

After another spat with her kids, Dona Hermínia decides to take some time off from them and hides away in her aunt's house, where she reminisces about her kids in an age when they still needed her.

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Meu Passado Me Condena: O Filme
2013 · dir. Julia Rezende
5.8comedy

Both are comedy through and through

The immature and cheap douche bag Fábio Clóvis marries the pseudo-intellectual Miá and they travel in a cruise to Europe on board of a fancy passenger vessel. Fabio and Miá are invited to have dinner with the wealthy Beto Assunção and his gorgeous wife Laura in a VIP restaurant on the vessel. Soon Fábio discovers that Beto was Miá's boyfriend and Miá learns that Fábio had a crush on Laura that was his classmate. Meanwhile the cynical chamber maid Suzana Mello and her estranged husband, the entertainer Wilson, make a bet that Fábio and Miá will split before the end of the trip and poison their relationship. When the ship arrives in Casablanca, Fábio meets his bothersome childhood friend Cabeça that affects their honeymoon.

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