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10 Best Movies Like Where the Heart Is

If you loved Where the Heart Is, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Juno

Juno

2007★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Where the Heart Is for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child....

#2
What to Expect When You're Expecting

What to Expect When You're Expecting

2012★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Where the Heart Is for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-...

#3
13 Minutes

13 Minutes

2021★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Where the Heart Is for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants ...

#4
Fools Rush In

Fools Rush In

1997★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Where the Heart Is for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural trad...

#5
The Sugarland Express

The Sugarland Express

1974★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Where the Heart Is for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, an...

#6
Jersey Girl

Jersey Girl

2004★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Where the Heart Is for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single f...

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