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Movies that feel likeBooksmart (2019)

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.

If you loved Booksmart, the closest films we have are Eighth Grade (2018), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) and Superbad (2007). All three share Booksmart'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 Slums of Beverly Hills (1998).

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Olivia Wildewittyplayfulwistful
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Eighth Grade
2018 · dir. Bo Burnham
🍅 99%★ 7.3comedy · dramaNetflix

The same two preoccupations: growing up, and generation z

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Booksmart does

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
2015 · dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
🍅 81%★ 7.7drama · comedyRent or buy

Common ground in both: high school and high school student

Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.

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Superbad
2007 · dir. Greg Mottola
🍅 88%★ 7.6comedyParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: buddy

Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.

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Rushmore
1998 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 90%★ 7.6comedy · drama

The same preoccupation in both: teenager

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.

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The Squid and the Whale
2005 · dir. Noah Baumbach
🍅 91%★ 7.3comedy · drama

One thread runs through both: growing up

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

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3 Idiots
2009 · dir. Rajkumar Hirani
🍅 94%★ 8.4drama · comedy

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like "Rancho." From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious university, Rancho's outlandish schemes turn the campus upside down—along with the lives of his two newfound best friends. Together, they make life miserable for "Virus," the school’s uptight and heartless dean. But when Rancho catches the eye of the dean's daughter, Virus sets his sights on flunking out the "3 idiots" once and for all.

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American Reunion
2012 · dir. Jon Hurwitz
🍅 45%★ 6.7comedy

Comedy built on wistfulness, twice over

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

The characters we met a little more than a decade ago return to East Great Falls for their high school reunion. In one long-overdue weekend, they will discover what has changed, who hasn’t, and that time and distance can’t break the bonds of friendship.

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986 · dir. John Hughes
🍅 85%★ 7.8comedyParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: high school

After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.

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Slums of Beverly Hills
1998 · dir. Tamara Jenkins
🍅 82%★ 6.7comedy · drama

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

In 1976, a teenage girl struggles to cope while living with her neurotic lower-middle-class family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

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Easy A
2010 · dir. Will Gluck
🍅 85%★ 7comedyParamount+

Common ground: high school student

Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor. With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents and a little help from a long-time crush, Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.

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The Spectacular Now
2013 · dir. James Ponsoldt
🍅 92%★ 7comedy · drama · romanceMax

Both are built on the same subject: teenager

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.

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople
2016 · dir. Taika Waititi
🍅 97%★ 7.8adventure · comedy · dramaPrime VideoPeacock

Playful comedy in both cases

Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.

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