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Movies that feel like With a Friend Like Harry... (2000)

If you loved With a Friend Like Harry..., the closest films we have are The Terminal (2004), The Bucket List (2007) and Ghost World (2001). All three share With a Friend Like Harry...'s contemplative and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

While fixing up their summer cottage, Michel and his family run into a man who claims to have gone to high school with Michel.

πŸ… 96% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Dominik Mollcontemplativewittyplayfultwistywarm

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The Terminal
2004 Β· dir. Steven Spielberg
πŸ… 61%β˜… 7.4comedy Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: friendship

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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

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The Bucket List
2007 Β· dir. Rob Reiner
πŸ… 40%β˜… 7.3drama Β· comedy

Both keep circling back to friendship

The difference: Lighter on twists

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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Ghost World
2001 Β· dir. Terry Zwigoff
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.3comedy Β· drama

Both land stillness and wit at once

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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50/50
2011 Β· dir. Jonathan Levine
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.6comedy Β· drama

The same mix in both: play, then warmth

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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The Intouchables
2011 Β· dir. Olivier Nakache
πŸ… 75%β˜… 8.5drama Β· comedy

Both trade on stillness more than on being drama

A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

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Another Round
2020 Β· dir. Thomas Vinterberg
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.7comedy Β· drama

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The difference: A 2020s film, from a different era of filmmaking

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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Mean Girls
2004 Β· dir. Mark Waters
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.1drama Β· comedy

Mystery built on play, twice over

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

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Elling
2001 · dir. Petter Næss
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· drama

Warm drama in both cases

40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.

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Frances Ha
2013 Β· dir. Noah Baumbach
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.4comedy Β· drama

Contemplative comedy, and it commits to that

An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.

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The Devil Wears Prada
2006 Β· dir. David Frankel
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7drama Β· comedy

Mystery built on wit, twice over

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 Β· dir. Valerie Faris
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· drama

Family holiday is the engine of both

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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Hit the Road
2021 Β· dir. Panah Panahi
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· drama

Both built around family

A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, and the youngest keeps exploding into car karaoke. Only the older brother is quiet.

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