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* ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce'' is a cheerfully surreal [[TheMultiverse multiversal]] adventure with a surprising amount of heart, about an Asian woman who can access all the memories and skills of her alternate selves. With ''Everywhere'' in the title. Sounds rather like a ''WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere'' movie, doesn't it? (Furthermore, while Evelyn isn't ''that'' similar to Jenny Everywhere, the film's primary antagonist [[spoiler: Jobu Topaki]] has considerable similarities with common takes on her arch-foe Jenny Nowhere, both of them being women who gained the ability to exist "everywhere, all at once" across the Multiverse and were turned into nihilistic villains by the [[GoMadFromTheRevelation experience]] even as it empowered them, making their newfound abilities a danger to the rest of reality.)

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* ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce'' is a cheerfully surreal [[TheMultiverse multiversal]] adventure with a surprising amount of heart, about an Asian woman who can access all the memories and skills of her alternate selves. With ''Everywhere'' in the title. Sounds rather like a ''WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere'' ''MediaNotes/JennyEverywhere'' movie, doesn't it? (Furthermore, while Evelyn isn't ''that'' similar to Jenny Everywhere, the film's primary antagonist [[spoiler: Jobu Topaki]] has considerable similarities with common takes on her arch-foe Jenny Nowhere, both of them being women who gained the ability to exist "everywhere, all at once" across the Multiverse and were turned into nihilistic villains by the [[GoMadFromTheRevelation experience]] even as it empowered them, making their newfound abilities a danger to the rest of reality.)
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* ''Film/AdventuresInBabysitting'' is a spiritual successor to ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' as well as ''Film/AfterHours''. In the former, both are UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}-based movies that have a French restaurant scene, a musical scene, and a nick-of-time ending with protagonists returning home just before parents arrive. For the latter, both movies go heavy on the sense of urban paranoia over the course of [[OneCrazyNight a single night]].

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* ''Film/AdventuresInBabysitting'' is a spiritual successor to ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' as well as ''Film/AfterHours''. In the former, both are UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}-based movies that have a French restaurant scene, a musical scene, and a nick-of-time ending with the protagonists returning home just before the parents arrive. For the latter, both movies go heavy on the sense of urban paranoia over the course of [[OneCrazyNight a single night]].
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* ''Film/{{Argylle}}'': Outside of the obvious CreatorDrivenSuccessor thing with the ''Film/{{Kingsman}}'' series by Creator/MatthewVaughn, it could be considered one to ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight''. Both involve [[spoiler: a seemingly mild mannered woman turning out to be an amnesiac with a past as an ActionGirl - assassin in the former, spy in this - and assuming the identity of her former self is accompanied with a switch from long red hair to short blonde]]. Samuel L Jackson even starred in ''The Long Kiss Goodnight''.
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* ''Film/TheFrighteners'' is a spiritual successor (no pun intended) to ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'':
** Both are [[HorrorComedy Horror Comedies]] that offer their own spin on exorcisms.
** In both films, the main leads have their lives dramatically changed by a car accident involving their spouse.
** In both films, the BigBad is defeated through being SwallowedWhole by a gigantic worm-looking monster.
** Both films have been scored by Creator/DannyElfman.
** Frank and Lucy gaining the ability to see ghosts after a traumatic experience harkens back to Lydia being able to do so due to her "strange and unusual" nature following her mother's death and Delia and Charles also gaining that ability after being terrified during the climax.
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* Of all things, Creator/SachaBaronCohen's ''Film/TheDictator'' is one to the 1977 anime ''Anime/VoltesV''. Both are about a narcissistic, psychopathic ruler of a country (planet in ''Voltes V'''s case), and a PrincelingRivalry of an uncle trying to get rid of his nephew because he's a threat to the throne. Said nephews are also oblivious to their uncles' plots, and are pretty tyrannical themselves, being highly nationalistic and ready to punish anyone who disobeys them. [[spoiler: Both end with the authoritarian monarchy overturned]]. The two also share commentary on oppression, unjust imprisonment and insurrection.

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* Of all things, Creator/SachaBaronCohen's ''Film/TheDictator'' is one to the 1977 anime ''Anime/VoltesV''. Both are about a narcissistic, psychopathic ruler of a country (planet in ''Voltes V'''s case), and a PrincelingRivalry of an uncle trying to get rid of his nephew because he's a threat to the throne. Said nephews are also oblivious to their uncles' plots, and are pretty tyrannical themselves, being highly nationalistic and ready to punish anyone who disobeys them. [[spoiler: Both end with the authoritarian monarchy overturned]]. The two also share commentary on have shared themes of oppression, unjust imprisonment and insurrection.
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*Of all things, Creator/SachaBaronCohen's ''Film/TheDictator'' is one to the 1977 anime ''Anime/VoltesV''. Both are about a narcissistic, psychopathic ruler of a country (planet in ''Voltes V'''s case), and a PrincelingRivalry of an uncle trying to get rid of his nephew because he's a threat to the throne. Said nephews are also oblivious to their uncles' plots, and are pretty tyrannical themselves, being highly nationalistic and ready to punish anyone who disobeys them. [[spoiler: Both end with the authoritarian monarchy overturned]]. The two also share commentary on oppression, unjust imprisonment and insurrection.
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* ''Film/{{Footloose}}'' and ''Film/RebelWithoutACause'' has the respective protagonists, Jim and Ren [[StartingANewLife move to a new high school]], [[JoinsToFitIn attempting to fit in]] in their communities, and having to display strength over weakness in order to survive high school. Secondly, in both films, there is an upset in the parent-child family dynamic concerning the female leads [[PreachersKid Ariel]] and Judy and their strict, authoritative fathers. Thirdly, the characters of Chuck Cranston in ''Footloose'' and Buzz Gunderson in ''Rebel Without a Cause'' are both violent and reckless towards the protagonists. Additionally, there is a scene in ''Footloose'' that is quite similar to the [[GameOfChicken chicken game]] in ''Rebel Without a Cause''.

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* ''Film/{{Footloose}}'' and ''Film/RebelWithoutACause'' has the respective protagonists, Ren and Jim and Ren [[StartingANewLife move to a new high school]], [[JoinsToFitIn attempting to fit in]] in their communities, and having to display strength over weakness in order to survive high school. Secondly, in both films, there is an upset in the parent-child family dynamic concerning the female leads [[PreachersKid Ariel]] and Judy and their strict, authoritative fathers. Thirdly, the characters of Chuck Cranston in ''Footloose'' and Buzz Gunderson in ''Rebel Without a Cause'' are both violent and reckless towards the protagonists. Additionally, there is a scene in ''Footloose'' that is quite similar to the [[GameOfChicken chicken game]] in ''Rebel Without a Cause''.

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