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Journalist Fred Flarsky reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Field, now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter — much to the dismay of her trusted advisers.

If you loved Long Shot, the closest films we have are Set It Up (2018), Definitely, Maybe (2008) and To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020). All three share Long Shot'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 Obvious Child (2014).

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jonathan Levinewittyplayfulromantic
8 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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Set It Up
2018 · dir. Claire Scanlon
🍅 92%★ 6.5romance · comedyNetflix

Witty and playful in the same breath

Two overworked and underpaid assistants come up with a plan to get their bosses off their backs by setting them up with each other.

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Definitely, Maybe
2008 · dir. Adam Brooks
🍅 71%★ 7.1comedy · romanceApple TV+

The same preoccupation in both: politics

When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.

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To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
2020 · dir. Michael Fimognari
🍅 78%★ 6.1romance · comedyNetflix

Comedy with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Lara Jean and Peter have just taken their romance from pretend to officially real when another recipient of one of her love letters enters the picture.

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Obvious Child
2014 · dir. Gillian Robespierre
🍅 90%★ 6.7comedy · romance

Romance built on wit, twice over

An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.

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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018 · dir. Ol Parker
🍅 80%★ 6.6comedy · romanceRent or buy

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophie’s biological father.

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Crazy Rich Asians
2018 · dir. Jon M. Chu
🍅 91%★ 6.9comedy · romanceMax

Both lean on romance more than on romance

An American-born Chinese economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous.

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A Rainy Day in New York
2019 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 46%★ 6.4comedy · romancePrime Video

Witty comedy in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they're met with bad weather and a series of adventures.

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Minha Vida em Marte
2018 · dir. Susana Garcia
★ 6.5comedy · romance

Romance built on play, twice over

Fernanda is married to Tom, with whom she has a five-year-old daughter, Joana. The couple is in the midst of wear and tear caused by living together for many years, which generates constant friction. Who helps Fernanda to overcome the crisis is her partner Aníbal, inseparable partner during the arduous journey between saving the marriage or putting an end to it.

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Isi & Ossi
2020 · dir. Oliver Kienle
★ 6.4romance · comedyNetflix

Both run romantic where it counts

Isi and Ossi couldn't be any more different: She's a billionaire's daughter from Heidelberg, he's a struggling boxer from the nearby town of Mannheim. But when Isi meets Ossi, the two quickly realize that they can take advantage of one another: She dates the broke boxer to provoke her parents and get them to fund a long-desired chef training in New York. He tries to rip off the rich daughter to finance his first professional boxing match. Their plans soon develop into emotional chaos that challenges everything the two believe to know about money, career and love.

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Holidate
2020 · dir. John Whitesell
🍅 45%★ 6.2comedy · romanceNetflix

The same comedy instincts

Fed up with being single on holidays, two strangers agree to be each other's platonic plus-ones all year long, only to catch real feelings along the way.

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Rich in Love
2020 · dir. Bruno Garotti
★ 6romance · comedyNetflix

Cut from the same romance cloth

Working incognito at his rich dad's company to test his own merits, Teto falls for Paula and tells her he grew up poor, a lie that spins out of control.

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Trainwreck
2015 · dir. Judd Apatow
🍅 84%★ 6.2comedy · romance

Both are comedy through and through

Ever since her father drilled into her head that monogamy isn't realistic, magazine writer Amy has made promiscuity her credo. As much as she enjoys an uninhibited life free of commitment, Amy is really in a rut. While writing a profile about charming and successful sports doctor Aaron Conners, she finds herself actually falling in love for the first time -- and what's more, Aaron seems to really like her too. Amy starts to wonder if it's time to clean up her act and face her fears.

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