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Movies that feel like The Spectacular Now (2013)

If you loved The Spectacular Now, the closest films we have are The Garden of Words (2013), Booksmart (2019) and DJ Cinderella (2019). Most of the picks below share The Spectacular Now's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in his life and Aimee plans for her future beyond school, an unexpected romance blossoms between them.

πŸ… 92% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. James Ponsoldtwittyplayfulcontemplativeromantictenderwistful
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If The Spectacular Now hit the spot, these will too

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The Garden of Words
2013 Β· dir. Makoto Shinkai
β˜… 7.4animation Β· drama Β· romance

Two things both keep coming back to: alcoholism and growing up

The difference: Missing the wit of The Spectacular Now

Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches.

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Booksmart
2019 Β· dir. Olivia Wilde
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.1comedy

The same two preoccupations: high school student, and teenager

Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one night.

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DJ Cinderella
2019 Β· dir. Bruno Garotti
β˜… 4.7romance Β· comedy

One thread runs through both: based on young adult novel

Cintia is modern princess, she's connected, decided and loves music. This "pop" princess used to live with their parents in a huge castle with a nice view to the city. Every night she looked through the window and watch the view dreaming with a prince she didn't met yet. But one day her castle crumbles with everything around her, after her parents divorce she went to live with her aunt and stops believing in love. What she didn't knew was that there was a charming prince in her history, that wanted to break the ice around our modern day cinderella.

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Cousins
2019 Β· dir. Mauro Carvalho
β˜… 6.3comedy Β· romance Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: growing up

Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail. The clash of reality between the cousins ends up causing unusual situations, and an unexpected attraction among the boys.

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The Kissing Booth
2018 Β· dir. Vince Marcello
πŸ… 17%β˜… 5.9romance Β· comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: high school student

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

When teenager Elle's first kiss leads to a forbidden romance with the hottest boy in high school, she risks her relationship with her best friend.

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Love, Simon
2018 Β· dir. Greg Berlanti
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· drama Β· romance

The same mix in both: wit, then play

Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.

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Blue Is the Warmest Color
2013 Β· dir. Abdellatif Kechiche
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.6romance Β· drama

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

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A Summer's Tale
1996 Β· dir. Γ‰ric Rohmer
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.6romance Β· drama Β· comedy

Both land tenderness and wistfulness at once

Awaiting his girlfriend LΓ©na’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends β€” and flirts heavily with β€” two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie SolΓ¨ne, making for a rather complicated situation when LΓ©na finally arrives.

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Show Me Love
1998 Β· dir. Lukas Moodysson
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

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All the Bright Places
2020 Β· dir. Brett Haley
πŸ… 67%β˜… 6.6romance Β· drama

Common ground: based on young adult novel

Two teens facing personal struggles form a powerful bond as they embark on a cathartic journey chronicling the wonders of Indiana.

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Moonrise Kingdom
2012 Β· dir. Wes Anderson
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.7comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Playful drama in both cases

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

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Juno
2007 Β· dir. Jason Reitman
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.4comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Both lean on stillness more than on romance

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

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