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10 Best Movies Like Heavyweights

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

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#1
Eddie's Million Dollar Cook Off

Eddie's Million Dollar Cook Off

2003★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heavyweights for fans of Family & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Eddie Ogden is his pa's pride and joy as well as the Groundhogs team's only asset as baseball talent. Then Eddie discovers a taste and talent for cuisine. Although his brothers And...

#2
Houseguest

Houseguest

1995★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heavyweights for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In hot water with the mob over an unpaid debt, a con man poses as a family friend in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb....

#3
The Ascent of Money

The Ascent of Money

2008★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heavyweights for fans of History. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

British historian and author Niall Ferguson explains how big money works today as well as the causes of and solutions to economic catastrophes in this extended version The Ascent o...

#4
The Last Shot

The Last Shot

2004★ 5.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heavyweights for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent working on a mob sting operation....

#5
Flying Virus

Flying Virus

2001★ 3.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heavyweights for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

After a series of Amazonian Indian attacks on US owned petroleum installation in Brazil, both governments start a secret 'special program'. In fact colonel Ezekial's men use GM kil...

#6
Last Resort

Last Resort

1996★ 5.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heavyweights for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Nine young men and women, deemed unmanageable by both anguished parents and a society grown weary of drug users, gang members and thieves, are given one last chance to save their l...