Jingle All the Way
1996 · 89 min · Director: Brian Levant
Show plot summary (may contain spoilers)
Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly busy at his job, and he also constantly disappoints his son, Jamie. After he misses his son's karate exposition, he tries hard to come up with a way to make it up to him. Jamie says he all he wants for Christmas is an action figure of television hero Turbo Man. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man figures; now Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else including a mail man named Myron to find a Turbo Man action figure, and to make it to the Wintertainment Parade, which will feature Turbo Man.
Emotional fingerprint
Jingle All the Way (1996) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Humor 35%, Anxiety 25%, Excitement 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure
- Humor35%
- Anxiety25%
- Excitement20%
- Love10%
- Relief10%
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Why it feels this way
The strongest emotional signals are Humor, Anxiety, Excitement. Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Family. AI estimate.
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Emotional journey
- Humor
- Tension
- Relief
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No dominant emotion
Dominant emotion: Humor
Dominant emotion: Sadness
Dominant emotion: Tension
Dominant emotion: Joy
Dominant emotion: Relief
Dominant emotion
| % | Approximate minute | Dominant emotion | Overall intensity | Humor | Tension | Relief |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 % | ≈ 2′ | Humor | 43 % | 30 % | 33 % | 10 % |
| 7.5 % | ≈ 7′ | Humor | 41 % | 27 % | 30 % | 5 % |
| 12.5 % | ≈ 11′ | Sadness | 39 % | 25 % | 26 % | 5 % |
| 17.5 % | ≈ 16′ | Humor | 43 % | 34 % | 29 % | 6 % |
| 22.5 % | ≈ 20′ | Humor | 51 % | 46 % | 35 % | 3 % |
| 27.5 % | ≈ 24′ | Humor | 55 % | 49 % | 40 % | 1 % |
| 32.5 % | ≈ 29′ | Humor | 56 % | 49 % | 44 % | 4 % |
| 37.5 % | ≈ 33′ | Humor | 60 % | 54 % | 45 % | 9 % |
| 42.5 % | ≈ 38′ | Humor | 61 % | 53 % | 40 % | 14 % |
| 47.5 % | ≈ 42′ | Sadness | 60 % | 41 % | 39 % | 10 % |
| 52.5 % | ≈ 47′ | Tension | 66 % | 40 % | 55 % | 9 % |
| 57.5 % | ≈ 51′ | Tension | 69 % | 46 % | 63 % | 13 % |
| 62.5 % | ≈ 56′ | Humor | 60 % | 44 % | 46 % | 8 % |
| 67.5 % | ≈ 60′ | Sadness | 55 % | 41 % | 34 % | 5 % |
| 72.5 % | ≈ 65′ | Humor | 59 % | 44 % | 35 % | 10 % |
| 77.5 % | ≈ 69′ | Joy | 69 % | 45 % | 46 % | 13 % |
| 82.5 % | ≈ 73′ | Tension | 80 % | 43 % | 65 % | 29 % |
| 87.5 % | ≈ 78′ | Relief | 85 % | 31 % | 59 % | 59 % |
| 92.5 % | ≈ 82′ | Joy | 73 % | 15 % | 24 % | 54 % |
| 97.5 % | ≈ 87′ | Joy | 53 % | 5 % | 3 % | 25 % |
Man in a hole
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
Jamie Langston
Officer Hummell
Johnny
Billy
Turbo Man
T.V. Booster / Puppeteer
Single Mother Judy
Single Mother Mary
Sensei
Sensei Assistant
Details
- Directed by
- Brian Levant
- Written by
- Randy Kornfield
- Type
- Movies
- Released
- 1996
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Country
- United States
- Ratings
- Feels mostly
- Humor
- Data updated
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