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Movies that feel like50/50 (2011)

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.

If you loved 50/50, the closest films we have are The Bucket List (2007), Son of Rambow (2007) and Ghost World (2001). All three share 50/50's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Elling (2001).

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jonathan Levinewittyplayfulcontemplativewarm
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The Bucket List
2007 · dir. Rob Reiner
🍅 40%★ 7.3drama · comedy

Both are working the same pair: friendship, parents and children

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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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Son of Rambow
2007 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 73%★ 7comedyParamount+

Common ground: friendship

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than 50/50 does

Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.

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Ghost World
2001 · dir. Terry Zwigoff
🍅 93%★ 7.3comedy · drama

One thread runs through both: best friend

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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The Intern
2015 · dir. Nancy Meyers
🍅 59%★ 7.1comedyParamount+

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.

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Elling
2001 · dir. Petter Næss
🍅 85%★ 7.4comedy · drama

Contemplative and warm in the same breath

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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Three Men and a Leg
1997 · dir. Massimo Venier
★ 7.7comedy

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

Friends Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo cross Italy from north to south for Giacomo's wedding: the father of the bride, a despotic magnate who is both their boss and father-in-law—since Aldo and Giovanni have also married into the family not for love but for money, a fate now awaiting Giacomo—has entrusted them with a priceless piece of modern art, one that looks just like a rather unremarkable wooden leg.

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Dumb and Dumber To
2014 · dir. Peter Farrelly
🍅 31%★ 5.6comedy

Playful drama in both cases

20 years since their first adventure, Lloyd and Harry go on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for adoption.

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The Internship
2013 · dir. Shawn Levy
🍅 34%★ 6.3comedyMax

Comedy with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.

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Let's Be Cops
2014 · dir. Luke Greenfield
🍅 18%★ 6.4comedyStarz

Both lean on wit more than on drama

Best pals Ryan and Justin are stalled in their respective careers -- a fact that is painfully driven home when they go to a college reunion. Dressed as police in the mistaken belief that they were to attend a costume party, Ryan and Justin find that the uniforms earn them much respect and attention. Although Justin is uncomfortable with the idea, Ryan decides to continue with the charade, putting them both in increasingly dangerous situations. When these newly-minted “heroes” get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.

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Grown Ups 2
2013 · dir. Dennis Dugan
🍅 8%★ 5.4comedyHuluStarz

Comedy built on play, twice over

Lenny has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises—the last day of school.

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That's Life
1998 · dir. Massimo Venier
★ 7comedy

Warm drama in both cases

While on the run from the police, an unlikely companionship blossoms between a funny con man who just broke out of jail, the bumbling cop whose car he seized at gunpoint, and a nitpicking civilian he unwittingly took hostage.

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Clerks
1994 · dir. Kevin Smith
🍅 90%★ 7.7comedyParamount+

Comedy approached the same way

Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.

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