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My Father the Hero

1991 · 105 min · Director: Gérard Lauzier ★ IMDb 6.1 · 3,131 ratings

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Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. To impress a local boy, Benjamin, she manages to complicate the situation by making up stories about her father. She presents him as her lover, a mercenary and even a secret agent which gets her into trouble and then her father has to start playing along...

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My Father the Hero (1991) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Humor 35%, Joy 25%, Love 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

35%Humor
25%Joy
20%Love
  1. Humor35%
  2. Joy25%
  3. Love20%

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The strongest emotional signals are Humor, Joy, Love. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Humor, Joy and Love. Its IMDb rating of 6.1/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 64/100.

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Emotional journey

AI · from subtitles
  • Humor
  • Love
  • Tension

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No dominant emotion

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: Humor

Dominant emotion: Love

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Relief

Humor
Love
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Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values. Not enough subtitle evidence
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 13 %, then rises around 68 %, then peaks around 78 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityHumorLoveTension
2.5 %≈ 3′Sadness43 %33 %15 %27 %
7.5 %≈ 8′Humor39 %33 %18 %20 %
12.5 %≈ 13′Love36 %31 %23 %16 %
17.5 %≈ 18′Humor44 %40 %21 %24 %
22.5 %≈ 24′Humor50 %43 %16 %34 %
27.5 %≈ 29′Tension48 %35 %16 %36 %
32.5 %≈ 34′Humor48 %33 %19 %38 %
37.5 %≈ 39′Tension55 %35 %28 %45 %
42.5 %≈ 45′Humor63 %48 %32 %45 %
47.5 %≈ 50′Humor65 %61 %21 %36 %
52.5 %≈ 55′Humor63 %63 %13 %35 %
57.5 %≈ 60′Humor54 %51 %16 %38 %
62.5 %≈ 66′Humor48 %41 %20 %39 %
67.5 %≈ 71′Humor56 %39 %19 %49 %
72.5 %≈ 76′Tension68 %36 %26 %51 %
77.5 %≈ 81′Relief70 %38 %46 %29 %
82.5 %≈ 87′Love68 %32 %57 %14 %
87.5 %≈ 92′Love63 %24 %57 %15 %
92.5 %≈ 97′Love62 %25 %60 %12 %
97.5 %≈ 102′Not enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidence
Rags to riches

Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

Gérard Depardieu

André Arnel

GH
Gérard Hérold

Patrick

PM
Patrick Mille

Benjamin

BA
Benoît Allemane

Notable

HB
Harriet Batchelor

Benjamin's girlfriend

SB
Sultan Beeharry

ÉB
Éric Berger

Julien

FB
Franck-Olivier Bonnet

The bartender

YB
Yan Brian

Benjamin's father

FB
François Bruhat

KC
Koomaren Chetty

Karim

TD
Thierry Der'ven

MD
Marpessa Djian

PF
Philippe François

EL
Evelyne Lagesse

Notable woman

LL
Lorraine Lagesse

JR
Jean-François Rangasamy

Pablo

Details

Directed by
Gérard Lauzier
Written by
Gérard Lauzier
Type
Movies
Released
1991
Runtime
105 min
Country
France
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.1 · 3,131 ratings
Feels mostly
Humor
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