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Lifelong friends Dave and Mitch are envious of the other's life. Mitch thinks Dave has it all: a beautiful, loving family and a high-paying job at a prestigious law firm. But Dave thinks Mitch’s stress-free playboy life without obligation or consequence is the real dream come true. One fateful drunken night, they both admit that they wish they had the other’s life while peeing in a fountain when lightning strikes. The next morning, they wake up, hungover, in each other’s bodies! With time not on their side, Mitch and Dave comically struggle to avoid completely destroying each other’s lives before they can find a way to get their old ones back.

If you loved The Change-Up, the closest films we have are Step Brothers (2008), Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) and My Mom Is a Character (2013). All three share The Change-Up's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

🍅 26% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Dobkinwittyplayful
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Step Brothers
2008 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 54%★ 6.9comedy

Both are built on the same subject: slacker

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbrothers when their single parents marry. Brennan's constant competition with Dale strains his mom's marriage to Dale's dad, leaving everyone to wonder whether they'll ever see eye to eye.

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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
2013 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 74%★ 6.3comedyParamount+Starz

Both land wit and play at once

With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.

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My Mom Is a Character
2013 · dir. André Pellenz
★ 6.8comedy

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

After another spat with her kids, Dona Hermínia decides to take some time off from them and hides away in her aunt's house, where she reminisces about her kids in an age when they still needed her.

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Suck Me Shakespeer
2013 · dir. Bora Dağtekin
★ 6.9comedy

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

Ex-con Zeki Müller goes undercover as a teacher at a below average Gymnasium to find money he'd stashed prior to incarceration.

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Babysitting
2014 · dir. Nicolas Benamou
★ 6.8comedy

Witty comedy in both cases

Looking for a baby-sitter for the night, Marc Schaudel entrusts his son Remy to the care of his employee Franck, a straight man. But the thing that Marc doesn't know, is that Franck is getting 30 years old this weekend and that his son Remy is a very capricious child. The next day, Marc and his wife Claire are awakened by a call from the police. Remy and Franck are missing, and the house is totally devastated. The police finds a camera in the leftovers. Marc, Claire and the police start watching the video that has been recorded the day before during the night and find out what happened to Franck and Remy.

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The Boss of It All
2006 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 74%★ 6.6comedy

Both sit in the same playful register

The owner of an IT firm wants to sell his business for profit; however, when he started his firm, he invented a nonexistent president to hide behind when unpopular steps needed to be taken. When potential purchasers insist on negotiating with 'The Boss' face to face, the owner hires a failed actor to play the part.

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What a Beautiful Day
2011 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
★ 6.3comedy

The same comedy instincts

Checco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral examination Checco said that the reason why he wanted to join the police was benefits in kind and cronyism! But the young man has connections and he soon finds himself a security agent at the Milan Cathedral. Of course the bumbling idiot proves a living catastrophe! Spotted by Sufien, an Arab terrorist who is preparing an attack against the cathedral, Checco appears as the perfect sucker. To manipulate him, he sends his charming sister Farah to him, with the mission to seduce him...

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Sun in Buckets
2013 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
★ 6.3comedy

Both play comedy straight

The story of a father and a son. An on the road trip from South to North.

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The Invisible Woman
2009 · dir. Cláudio Torres
★ 6.3comedy

Comedy of the same temperament

A man is abandoned by his wife and then falls in love with his neighbor, the perfect, ideal woman. The only problem: she doesn't exist!

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Welcome to the South
2010 · dir. Luca Miniero
★ 6.6comedy

Cut from the same comedy cloth

Alberto, post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia, is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...

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Cado dalle nubi
2009 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
★ 6.5comedy

The comedy is handled with the same confidence

An aspiring singer from southern Italy who's just been dumped moves north to Milan, where he falls in love and enters a TV singing competition show.

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The Santa Claus Gang
2010 · dir. Paolo Genovese
★ 5.9comedy

Both working the same comedy territory

On Christmas Eve, three friends dressed as Santa Claus are arrested in what looks like an attempted burglary and charged with being the infamous "Santa Claus Gang". While trying to prove their innocence to the police, the trio explains why they found themselves in such a strange situation...

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