30 Best Movies Like Second Act ...

30 Best Movies Like Second Act ...

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1. Morning Glory (2010)

1h 47m Comedy Drama Romance

A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news journalist and anchor who disapproves of co-hosting a show that does not deal with real news stories.

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2. The Intern (2015)

2h 1m Comedy

70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.

3. Nappily Ever After (2018)

4. Maid in Manhattan (2002)

1h 45m Comedy Drama Romance

Marisa Ventura is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son. One fateful day, hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall meets Marisa and mistakes her for a wealthy socialite. After an enchanting evening together, the two fall madly in love. But when Marisa's true identity is revealed, issues of class and social status threaten to separate them. Can two people from very different worlds overcome their differences and live happily ever after?

5. The Back-up Plan (2010)

1h 46m Comedy Romance

When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe has to figure out how to make her two life's dreams fit with each other.

6. View from the Top (2003)

1h 27m Comedy Romance

A small-town woman tries to achieve her goal of becoming a flight attendant.

7. The Princess Switch (2018)

8. Table 19 (2017)

1h 27m Comedy Drama

Eloise, having been relieved of maid of honor duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to attend the wedding anyway – only to find herself seated with five fellow-unwanted guests at the dreaded Table 19.

9. Do You See Me? (2014)

10. The Proposal (2009)

1h 48m Comedy Romance Drama

When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.

11. Working Girl (1988)

1h 54m Comedy Romance

Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her apartment and even her wardrobe. She creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her to the top, or finish her off for good.

12. Dumplin' (2018)

1h 50m Comedy Drama

To prove a point about measuring up and fitting in, Texas teen Willowdean “Dumplin’” Dickson enters a local pageant run by her ex-beauty queen mom.

13. Picture Perfect (1997)

1h 45m Comedy Romance

A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.

14. Something Borrowed (2011)

1h 52m Comedy Drama Romance

Though Rachel is a successful attorney and a loyal, generous friend, she is still single. After one drink too many at her 30th-birthday celebration, Rachel unexpectedly falls into bed with her longtime crush, Dex -- who happens to be engaged to her best friend, Darcy. Ramifications of the liaison threaten to destroy the women's lifelong friendship, while Ethan, Rachel's confidant, harbors a potentially explosive secret of his own.

15. Book Club (2018)

1h 44m Comedy Romance Drama

Four lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club.

16. The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)

2h 6m Comedy Drama Romance

Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.

17. Love at the Christmas Table (2012)

1h 31m Comedy Romance TV Movie

Family friends Sam and Kat spend every Christmas Eve at the Children's Table. They grow up together, sharing the highs and lows of young adulthood. And at thirty, Sam realizes that Kat is the one...but he's afraid that the past will get in the way.

18. #RealityHigh (2017)

19. Manhattan Romance (2014)

20. Buffaloed (2019)

21. The Other Sister (1999)

2h 10m Comedy Drama Romance

A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college.

22. Uptown Girls (2003)

1h 32m Comedy Drama Family

Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray, the oft ignored daughter of a music executive she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.

23. Office Romance (1977)

24. Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)

2h 3m Comedy Romance

After breaking up with Mark Darcy, Bridget Jones's 'happily ever after' hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. What could possibly go wrong? Then her love life takes a turn and Bridget meets a dashing American named Jack, the suitor who is everything Mr. Darcy is not. In an unlikely twist she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch she can only be fifty percent sure of the identity of her baby's father.

25. The Princess Switch: Switched Again (2020)

26. You&`ve Got Mail (1998)

27. Violet Tendencies (2010)

1h 39m Comedy Drama Romance

A woman tries to distance herself from her gay friends in an effort to land a straight boyfriend.

28. Music from Another Room (1998)

1h 44m Comedy Drama Romance

Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swann but she finds it easy to resist him since she is already engaged to dreamboat Eric, a very practical match. In pursuit of Anna, Danny finds himself entangled with each of the eccentric Swanns including blind, sheltered Nina, cynical sister Karen, big brother Bill and dramatic mother Grace as he fights to prove that fate should never be messed with and passion should never be practical.

29. Ten Inch Hero (2007)

1h 37m Comedy Drama Romance

Four friends search for love and happiness while working at a California sandwich shop.

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