Movies like The Out-of-Towners (1999)
The best movies like The Out-of-Towners (1999) are Undercover Blues (1993), Seems Like Old Times (1980) and Trial and Error (1997). If The Out-of-Towners hooked you with its comedy and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedOverboard (1987)6.9/10 from 1,072 votes
- NewestSix Days Seven Nights (1998)Released 1998
Undercover Blues (1993)
When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decide to skip the sitter and give their bouncing baby girl the adventure of a lifetime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSeems Like Old Times (1980)
After being falsely accused of robbing a bank, a writer seeks the help of his lawyer ex-wife to clear his name. However, hilarity ensues when he must hide from her husband, who’s throwing a party for law enforcement officials.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrial and Error (1997)
When lawyer Charlie is sent to a small Nevada town to file a continuance request for a client, his actor friend Richard turns up to throw a surprise bachelor party celebrating his upcoming marriage to the boss's daughter. When Charlie is too hung-over to make it to court for the hearing, Richard fills in, inadvertently committing felony fraud, and Charlie is left with no choice but to coach the clueless Richard through the whole trial.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThey All Laughed (1981)
New York's Odyssey Detective Agency is hired by two different clients to follow two women suspected of infidelity. Ladies' man John Russo trails Angela Niotes, the elegant wife of a wealthy Italian industrialist, while Charles Rutledge and Arthur Brodsky follow Dolores Martin, the beautiful young wife of a jealous husband. Their respective cases are complicated when John falls for Angela, and Charles falls for Dolores.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHousesitter (1992)
Con artist Gwen moves into Newton's empty home without his knowledge and begins setting up house, posing as his new wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDelirious (1991)
A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisWho's That Girl (1987)
An uptight New York City tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down one day when he's asked to escort a feisty free-spirited ex-convict who asks him to help prove her innocence of her crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisMicki & Maude (1984)
TV reporter Rob Salinger longs for a baby. But his career-minded wife, Micki, is too busy for motherhood. A romantic fling with a seductive cellist, Maude, leads to her pregnancy. Rob receives another shock when Micki announces that she's also expecting! In love with both women, he marries Maude and starts leading a double life full of complicated and riotous situations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisCrossing Delancey (1988)
Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While her grandmother plots to find her a romantic match, Isabelle is courted by a married, worldly author, Anton, yet can't seem to shake the down-to-earth appeal of Sam, a pickle vendor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisFor Richer or Poorer (1997)
Brad Sexton and his wife, Caroline, are wealthy New Yorkers with both marital and financial problems. The latter issue becomes a pressing matter when they discover that their accountant has embezzled millions and pinned the blame on them. Forced to go on the lam, Brad and Caroline end up in an Amish area of Pennsylvania and decide to pose as members of the religious group to evade the IRS. As the two adapt to the simple Amish lifestyle, they begin to reconnect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisScenes from a Mall (1991)
A comedy about a married couple -- he's a sports lawyer, she's a psychologist -- which takes place on their 16th wedding anniversary, when they make some startling confessions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Secret of My Success (1987)
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York City, but once there, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When he visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the mail room.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBorn Yesterday (1993)
A rich millionaire hires a sophisticated journalist to bring his somewhat dim-witted girlfriend up to the level of his peers. He fears that the showgirl's lack of etiquette may damage his own social reputation and tries to change her — but fails to realise that her enhanced eloquence will empower her to voice her own strong opinions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisOnly the Lonely (1991)
Danny Muldoon, a Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing mother Rose. He meets and falls in love with Theresa Luna, whose father owns the local funeral parlour. Naturally, his mother objects to the relationship, and Danny and Theresa must either overcome her objections or give up the romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisL.A. Story (1991)
With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOverboard (1987)
Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get even.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Love Trouble (1994)
Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett join forces to uncover a train wreck conspiracy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThat Old Feeling (1997)
A bride's divorced parents find their old feelings for each other during the wedding reception and over the course of the next few days upsetting the newlywed's honeymoon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Out-of-Towners (1970)
A trip to New York for a job interview turns into a trip to hell for a small town couple.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOutrageous Fortune (1987)
Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actress, decides through happenstance to also study with Korzenowski. The two women end up dating the same man (who turns out to be a double agent) and follow him across the country to force him to choose between them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLook Who's Talking (1989)
After a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver. Meanwhile, the point-of-view of the newborn baby is narrated through voice-over.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Money Pit (1986)
After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their rambling mansion falls to pieces around them, the two watch in hilarious horror as everything—including the kitchen sink—disappears into the Money Pit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNine Months (1995)
When he finds out his longtime girlfriend is pregnant, a commitment-phobe realizes he might have to change his lifestyle for better or much, much worse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy Blue Heaven (1990)
FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMr. Mom (1983)
Jack and Caroline are a couple making a decent living when Jack suddenly loses his job. They agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It's just that he's never done it before, and really doesn't have a clue...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFathers' Day (1997)
A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Tall Guy (1989)
An American actor in England tries to find love and work.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisTwo Much (1995)
A struggling Miami art gallerist incurs the wrath of a mobster when he becomes accidentally engaged to his flighty ex-wife, but he falls in love with the woman's sister, so he invents a twin brother and plays both parts to satisfy the women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisTravels with My Aunt (1972)
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSix Days Seven Nights (1998)
In the South Pacific, in Polynesia, on the island of Makatea, Quinn Harris, a taciturn pilot, leads a quiet life, content to earn a living by transporting goods in his De Havilland Beaver. His life is exactly as he wants it to be—until he meets Robin Monroe, a sophisticated and determined woman, the assistant editor of a New York magazine, on vacation for a week with her boyfriend, Frank Martin. An urgent work assignment in Tahiti, the neighboring island, forces Robin to reluctantly hire Quinn to fly her there. But a violent storm forces them to make an emergency landing on a deserted island. This unlikely pair avoids each other at first, until they are forced to team up to escape the island... and evade the pirates who are after them. Danger and temptation are never far away...
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & adventure
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Out-of-Towners?
The closest matches to The Out-of-Towners are Undercover Blues (1993), Seems Like Old Times (1980) and Trial and Error (1997). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Out-of-Towners?
People who watched The Out-of-Towners most often go on to Undercover Blues (1993), Seems Like Old Times (1980) and Trial and Error (1997).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Out-of-Towners?
Overboard (1987), rated 6.9/10 by 1,072 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Out-of-Towners?
Six Days Seven Nights (1998) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Out-of-Towners?
Yes: Undercover Blues (1993), Seems Like Old Times (1980) and Trial and Error (1997).
How are movies similar to The Out-of-Towners chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Out-of-Towners, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.