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Movies that feel like Whisky (2004)

If you loved Whisky, the closest films we have are The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Little Miss Sunshine (2006) and Sunshine Cleaning (2008). All three share Whisky's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Disney Plus, Hulu and fuboTV and others, checked against today's data.

When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Juan Pablo Rebellawittyplayfulcontemplative

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The Devil Wears Prada
2006 · dir. David Frankel
🍅 75%7drama · comedy

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life editor-in-chief of a major fashion magazine.

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Little Miss Sunshine
2006 · dir. Valerie Faris
🍅 91%7.8comedy · drama

Comedy with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

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Sunshine Cleaning
2008 · dir. Christine Jeffs
🍅 74%6.8comedy · drama

Both trade on wit more than on being drama

A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.

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The Trip
2011 · dir. Michael Winterbottom
🍅 89%7comedy · drama

Playful comedy in both cases

When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.

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Due Date
2010 · dir. Todd Phillips
🍅 39%6.5comedy · drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Peter Highman must scramble across the US in five days to be present for the birth of his first child. He gets off to a bad start when his wallet and luggage are stolen, and put on the 'no-fly' list. Peter embarks on a terrifying journey when he accepts a ride from an actor.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 92%8.1comedy · drama

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

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Gloria
2013 · dir. Sebastián Lelio
🍅 100%6.9comedy · drama

Playful drama, and it commits to that

Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.

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Smoke
1995 · dir. Wayne Wang
🍅 89%7.4comedy · drama

A streak of stillness through both

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.

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The Big Short
2015 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 89%7.8comedy · drama

Cut from the same comedy cloth

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

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The Disaster Artist
2017 · dir. James Franco
🍅 90%7.3comedy · drama

Both are drama through and through

An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.

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I, Tonya
2017 · dir. Craig Gillespie
🍅 90%7.5drama · comedy

Comedy approached the same way

Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

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Gifted
2017 · dir. Marc Webb
🍅 73%7.6drama · comedy

The same drama instincts

Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

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