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Movies that feel likeAsteroid City (2023)

In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.

If you loved Asteroid City, the closest films we have are The Holdovers (2023), Toni Erdmann (2016) and August: Osage County (2013). All three share Asteroid City'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 Jackie (2016).

🍅 76% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Wes Andersonwittyplayfulcontemplativemelancholy
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The Holdovers
2023 · dir. Alexander Payne
🍅 97%★ 7.9drama · comedyPeacock

Common ground: grief

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

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Toni Erdmann
2016 · dir. Maren Ade
🍅 93%★ 7.3comedy · drama

Both are built on the same subject: family

Convinced that his daughter has forgotten how to laugh, a father shows up unannounced while she's living abroad and bombards her with outrageous jokes.

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August: Osage County
2013 · dir. John Wells
🍅 67%★ 7.2comedy · dramaPrime Video

The same mix in both: wit, then play

An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.

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Sunshine Cleaning
2009 · dir. Christine Jeffs
🍅 74%★ 6.8comedy · dramaMax

Contemplative where it counts, melancholy underneath

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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Good Bye, Lenin!
2003 · dir. Wolfgang Becker
🍅 91%★ 7.7comedy · drama

Witty comedy in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.

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Patch Adams
1998 · dir. Tom Shadyac
🍅 22%★ 6.9comedy · drama

Drama built on play, twice over

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.

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The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 81%★ 7.6comedy · dramaMax

Wes Anderson working the same nerve twice

Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.

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Captain Fantastic
2016 · dir. Matt Ross
🍅 82%★ 7.8drama · comedy

Comedy with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, beginning a journey that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent.

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A Man Called Otto
2022 · dir. Marc Forster
🍅 70%★ 7.5comedy · dramaHulu

Melancholy drama, and it commits to that

When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.

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Jackie
2016 · dir. Pablo Larraín
🍅 87%★ 6.6drama

The same preoccupation in both: grief

The difference: Trades the wit of Asteroid City for an angle of its own

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

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Demolition
2016 · dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
🍅 53%★ 7comedy · dramaRent or buy

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.

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Silent Heart
2014 · dir. Bille August
★ 7.1drama

One thread runs through both: family

Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her disease worsens; but, as the weekend progresses, their mother's decision becomes harder and harder to deal with, and old conflicts come to the surface.

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