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10 Best Movies Like The Big Animal

If you loved The Big Animal, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Hooking Up

Hooking Up

2020★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Big Animal for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addi...

#2
The Kid

The Kid

1921★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Big Animal for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son....

#3
Julian Po

Julian Po

1997★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Big Animal for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he's up to no good. After bothering him for a while, he blurts out in frustration, that he is the...

#4
Landline

Landline

2017★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Big Animal for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair....

#5
Class Act

Class Act

1992★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Big Animal for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Duncan is a genius straight A student, Blade is ajuvenile delinquent. But because of a mix up with their school records, everyone thinks each is the other one. Now, Duncan kind of ...

#6
A Dog Year

A Dog Year

2009★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Big Animal for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends hi...

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