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10 Best Movies Like The Last Word

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

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#1
Love Liza

Love Liza

2002★ 6.4

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

Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel turns to huffing gasoline fumes and remote control gaming while avoiding an inevitable conflict wit...

#2
Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe

1941★ 7.3

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

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann a...

#3
The Last Word

The Last Word

2008★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Last Word for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An odd-but-gifted poet, Evan Merck makes his living writing suicide notes for the soon-to-be departed. So when he meets Charlotte, the free-spirited sister of his latest client, Ev...

#4
A Man Called Otto

A Man Called Otto

2022★ 7.8

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

When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that ...

#5
My Girl

My Girl

1991★ 7.4

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

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the su...

#6
Smoke

Smoke

1995★ 7.2

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

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he w...

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