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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
Palindromes

Palindromes

2005★ 6.2

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

Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revo...

#2
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....

#3
The Threesome

The Threesome

2025★ 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.

Connor has a threesome with his long-time crush Olivia and an alluring stranger named Jenny. It surprisingly serves as the spark to a full blown relationship with Olivia, until bot...

#4
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-...

#5
For Keeps

For Keeps

1988★ 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.

Young high school couple Darcy Elliot and Stan Bobrucz are one year from graduation, with promising futures ahead of them. But their paths take a drastic turn when Darcy becomes pr...

#6
Raising Arizona

Raising Arizona

1987★ 7.1

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

When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated....

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