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Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941), Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958), These Wilder Years (1956), The Kid (1921), Starbuck (2011), The Great Man Votes (1939), Men of Boys Town (1941) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941)

Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941)

6.8/10 Comedy, Drama

Hoping his son will attend his alma mater, Judge Hardy agrees to let Andy look for work in New York for the summer before committing to start college. In the big city, Andy is confronted with the harsh realities of life and love.

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Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958)

Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958)

6.0/10 Comedy

Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.

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These Wilder Years (1956)

These Wilder Years (1956)

6.8/10 Drama

A middle-aged man tries to reconnect with his illegitimate son, who was given to an orphanage many years ago.

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The Kid (1921)

The Kid (1921)

10.0/10 Comedy, Drama

The Little Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) raises the abandoned child (Jack Coogan) of an unwed mother (Edna Purviance).

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Starbuck (2011)

Starbuck (2011)

7.3/10 Comedy, Drama, Romance

As his lover announces her pregnancy, a fortysomething slacker receives other life-changing news: 142 people, all of them the result of artificial insemination, have filed a class action lawsuit against him, their biological father.

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The Great Man Votes (1939)

The Great Man Votes (1939)

6.7/10 Comedy, Drama

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in drove...Read all

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Men of Boys Town (1941)

Men of Boys Town (1941)

6.6/10 Drama

Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy return in this sequel to the original Boys Town. This time the school faces financial trouble as Father Flanagan tries to help every little boy he meets. Larry Nunn and Dwayne Hickman join in this time around as Flanagan discovers a reform school that has neither reforming nor schooling. It's up to Flanagan, Whitey, and the rest of the ...Read all

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Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944)

Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944)

6.6/10 Comedy, Drama

A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan something special for the soldier they've invited to Sunday dinner. They don't realize that their request to invite the soldier never got mailed. On the day of the scheduled dinner, another soldier is brought to their home and love soon blossoms between him and Tessa, the young woman who runs the h...Read all

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Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)

6.4/10 Comedy, Drama

A cocky young jockey who gets mixed up with some crooked gamblers befriends an English lad with a fast horse and the niece of a woman who runs a boarding house for jockeys.

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The Confirmation (2016)

The Confirmation (2016)

6.4/10 Drama, Comedy, Horror

A divorced father and his eight-year-old son are about to spend a somewhat predictable weekend together, nevertheless, when a valuable toolbox gets stolen, the search for the thieves will soon turn into a true family bonding.

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Walking Across Egypt (1999)

Walking Across Egypt (1999)

8.9/10 Drama

An elderly Southern widow, Mattie Rigsbee (Ellen Burstyn), begrudgingly starts to acknowledge that she can't live on her own. When Mattie becomes friends with the town dogcatcher, Lamar Benfield (Mark Hamill), she is also introduced to his orphaned nephew, Wesley (Jonathan Taylor Thomas). Although Wesley has been in trouble with the law and incarcerated for auto theft, Mattie sees potential in the boy and tries to point him in the right direction by allowing him to live with her.

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Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003)

Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003)

8.2/10 Comedy, Drama, Musical

A gangster sets out to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a doctor.

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The Grace of Jake (2015)

The Grace of Jake (2015)

8.0/10 Comedy, Drama

An ex-inmate and wandering musician travels to a small Arkansas town to get revenge on his absentee father. Once there, he unravels a complicated family history when he befriends the locals.

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Transamerica (2005)

Transamerica (2005)

7.4/10 Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A preoperative transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

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The Little Colonel (1935)

The Little Colonel (1935)

7.1/10 Comedy, Drama

In the post-Civil war south, a darling little girl attempts to restore the peace between her parents and her plantation owner grandfather.

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Win Win (2011)

Win Win (2011)

7.1/10 Comedy, Drama

A struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach's chicanery comes back to haunt him when the teenage grandson of the client he has double-crossed comes into his life.

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The Sun Shines Bright (1954)

The Sun Shines Bright (1954)

7.0/10 Comedy, Drama

John Ford weaves three "Judge Priest" stories together to form a good- natured exploration of honour and small-town politics in the South around the turn of the century. Judge William Priest is involved variously in revealing the real identity of Lucy Lake, reliving his Civil War memories, preventing the lynching of a youth and contesting the elections with Yankee Hor...Read all

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The Human Comedy (1943)

The Human Comedy (1943)

7.0/10 Comedy, Drama

Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.

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