If you loved The Mighty Ducks, try The Great Gilly Hopkins

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. The Great Gilly Hopkins has roughly 3.9× fewer votes than The Mighty Ducks — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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The Mighty Ducks

1992 · dir. Stephen Herek

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The Great Gilly Hopkins

2015 · dir. Stephen Herek

What they share

Both films are directed by Stephen Herek, and they both carry the tender mood tag, and they sit in Comedy / Drama / Family territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Mighty Ducks, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Great Gilly Hopkins is

Here's a film about a difficult kid who softens predictably. Gilly Hopkins, a hardened adolescent bounces between foster homes while scheming to reunite with her biological mom. It is a movie that certainly ends.

If you loved The Mighty Ducks, try The Great Gilly Hopkins

The Mighty Ducks

The Great Gilly Hopkins

What they share

What The Great Gilly Hopkins is

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