What the corpus says about Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:04:38 · unknown (0.30)] Mrs. Doubtfire ↔ The War of the Roses · theme · Mrs. Doubtfire is the divorce movie from the child's perspective, even though it reads as a Robin Williams comedy. · "I think mine is Mrs. Doubtfire for the child perspective."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:18:22 · unknown (0.30)] Fearless ↔ Mrs. Doubtfire · coincidence · Both 1993 films turn on strawberry allergies. · "So there's 2 movies about strawberry allergies in 1993, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:48:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] What About Bob? ↔ Mrs. Doubtfire · prior episode · Williams's 1987-93 run as one of the two biggest stars was discussed on Mrs. Doubtfire. · "We did this when we did Mrs. Doubtfire."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:48:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Greg Cannom ↔ Mrs. Doubtfire · career · Cannom won a previous Oscar for Mrs. Doubtfire. · "He won an Oscar for his work in Mrs. Delphire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 2:32:22 · Michael Rianda (0.60)] Mrs. Doubtfire · fun · Box-office game: Doubtfire's winter run, losing #1 to Philadelphia for two weeks then back again; the hosts are ecstatic and Michael calls it his month's highlight. · "The fire in David and Griffin's eyes is like shining right now."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:48:14 · unknown (0.40)] Peter Weir ↔ Fearless · programming · A host has not seen Fearless and is obsessed with plane crashes. · "the most intense plane crash scene in a movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:05 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Body Heat · programming · Triple-feature pitch: Roses with Body Heat and Fatal Attraction. · "I do think we should be pairing this with both body heat and fatal attraction."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:46:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] What About Bob? ↔ Pacific Heights · lineage · Sean calls What About Bob? a logical successor to Pacific Heights, part of the late-80s/early-90s 'from hell' subgenre where a transactional acquaintance won't leave your life. · "Think of this movie as a logical successor to Pacific Heights. It is it is the same thing."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:11:17 · David Sims (0.50)] Rafael Yglesias ⇒ Fearless (the host's read) · lineage · Weir loved the unpublished-novel first-draft script, adapted by its own author. · "He adapts his own unpublished book."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:10 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Fatal Attraction · programming · Pair an erotic-thriller double with Roses for a full day of 80s marriage trouble. · "I think that should be like we get an erotic thriller with both of them and then we watch this"
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:12:11 · Van Lathan (0.60)] What About Bob? ↔ In Treatment · lineage · A 10-episode remake would be hard; In Treatment is the nearest show, tracking patients over years. · "I mean, in treatment was the show and treatment was kind of sort of like this."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 0:50:16 · Tim Simons (0.45)] Fearless ↔ Unbreakable · theme · Both are about a man recovering from an accident that left him untouched; Bruce Willis would have fit, but was not ready. · "sort of a similar idea of a guy who's kind of like, fucking nothing happened to me, like, and who is recovering from an accident."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:18 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Romancing the Stone · programming · The speakers pair Roses with Romancing the Stone for the other end of the Douglas/Turner spectrum. · "I was going to say romance in the stone just to get the other end of the spectrum."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:13:09 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] What About Bob? ↔ Meet the Fockers · lineage · Bill's sequel idea: Analyze That, Meet the Fockers. · "Analyze that, meet the Fokkers."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:13:28 · David Sims (0.40)] Fearless ↔ Hero · theme · Hero, the year before, also asks what happens to people who walk out of a crash alive. · "What happens to the people who walk off walk out of a crash alive?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:43 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Mr. & Mrs. Smith · programming · Mr. & Mrs. Smith is the lighter double feature since the couple also wreck the house but it works out. · "Because they tear up the house in the same way, but then it kind of works out, at least in the movie."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:34:07 · unknown (0.30)] What About Bob? ↔ Frank Grimes · theme · Dreyfuss's therapist is likened to Frank Grimes, the lone person who sees the intolerable guy for what he is. · "He's the only one who understands that this person is intolerable."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 2:28:08 · unknown (0.30)] Fearless ↔ Kickin' It Old Skool · theme · A coma movie where a man wakes into a new reality is joked to be the Fearless of the 2000s. · "kind of the fearless of the 2000s?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:56:37 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ⇒ Game of Thrones (the host's read) · lineage · The actual historical Wars of the Roses was a big inspiration for Game of Thrones. · "Big inspiration for Game of Thrones."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:17:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] What About Bob? ↔ Analyze This · theme · Both are silly-seeming comedies staffed by hugely accomplished crews, which makes them better. · "a ton of people that are incredibly accomplished working on a movie that seems really silly and it makes the movie that much better."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 0:52:17 · Tim Simons (0.40)] Fearless ⇒ Tron: Legacy (the host's read) · craft · The 1993 Bridges look was the reference for the de-aged CGI Bridges in Tron: Legacy. · "I believe that this was the main visual reference for creepy CGI Jeff Bridges and Tron Legacy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:37:30 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] The War of the Roses ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · Roses is described as a prequel to Gone Girl; it could have pivoted to Turner killing Douglas and going on the run. · "This movie's kind of a prequel to Gone Girl."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:09:39 · Van Lathan (0.60)] What About Bob? ↔ The Bourne Identity · theme · Bob's pretending to be someone else to track the doctor is likened to Jason Bourne or Ethan Hunt spycraft. · "Jason Bourne, like CIA detective skills to go in there and pretend to be somebody else, Ethan Hutt skills"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:06:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Fearless ↔ Picnic at Hanging Rock · craft · Fearless captures an uncanny mood with invisible craft the way Picnic at Hanging Rock does. · "And it has a little bit of that picnic at hanging rock thing where you're like, what is this mood he's captured?"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:14:24 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] The War of the Roses ⇒ Problem Child (the maker said so: the writer's own account on the show) · lineage · They had pitched Problem Child to be a grown-up dark comedy like The War of the Roses. · "talked about the War of the Roses"
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:16:00 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] What About Bob? ↔ The Good Son · theme · Bill says the lake house is one thing, but the house in The Good Son was probably made up; leads to Culkin evil-kid horror. · "Here's here's where this game ends when you see the house from the good house from the good son."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:14:34 · unknown (0.30)] Fearless ↔ Sully · craft · Sully uses the same crash-in-flashback structure Weir chose for Fearless. · "Sully does basically the same thing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:02:41 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Kramer vs. Kramer · theme · Roses may be the more on-point childhood divorce movie than Kramer, and the two anchor any divorce-movie pantheon. · "But this might actually be the more on point childhood divorce movie for me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:35:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Michael Ballhaus ↔ What About Bob? · craft · Sean says Ballhaus shoots the scene of Siggy scaring Bob like a horror scene, with two heads in the frame, one in back and one in front. · "that's Michael Bauhaus. He's shooting that scene like it's a horror scene, you know, like the 2 heads in the frame, like one in the back and one in the front."
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Michael Rianda · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · Loves hand-made animation with visible thumbprints, Ren and Stimpy, The Simpsons, experimental animators and Pixar's manifesto culture. Can't stand CG-printed stop-motion faces and celebrity casting. A sucker for the Willy-Wonka feel of a stop-motion set. · stances: Animators are inwardly little artists chafing at studios; Treat a movie like a jailbreak; Celebrity casting doesn't matter; Hand-made imperfections make stop motion magic
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Mrs. Doubtfire (1993); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.