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Swept from the Sea

1997 · 113 min · Director: Beeban Kidron ★ IMDb 6.7 · 3,859 ratings

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The film tells the story of Russian émigré, and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall, and servant Amy Foster in the end of nineteenth century. When Yanko enters a farm, sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.

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Swept from the Sea (1997) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Love 35%, Sadness 25%, Empathy 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

35%Love
  1. Love35%
  2. Hope10%

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Why it feels this way

The strongest emotional signals are Love, Sadness, Empathy. Genres: Drama, Romance, Mystery. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Love, Sadness and Empathy. Its IMDb rating of 6.7/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 69/100.

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Emotional journey

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  • Empathy
  • Sadness
  • Love

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Dominant emotion: Empathy

Dominant emotion: Hope

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: 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.
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 3 %, then peaks around 93 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityEmpathySadnessLove
2.5 %≈ 3′Empathy48 %42 %27 %12 %
7.5 %≈ 8′Hope53 %43 %29 %9 %
12.5 %≈ 14′Tension60 %48 %39 %6 %
17.5 %≈ 20′Sadness68 %59 %49 %8 %
22.5 %≈ 25′Empathy69 %66 %49 %14 %
27.5 %≈ 31′Empathy65 %64 %42 %21 %
32.5 %≈ 37′Hope59 %55 %35 %28 %
37.5 %≈ 42′Sadness59 %50 %34 %38 %
42.5 %≈ 48′Love66 %54 %38 %51 %
47.5 %≈ 54′Sadness71 %59 %40 %56 %
52.5 %≈ 59′Love74 %60 %33 %57 %
57.5 %≈ 65′Love76 %63 %31 %63 %
62.5 %≈ 71′Love79 %58 %31 %69 %
67.5 %≈ 76′Hope79 %50 %24 %74 %
72.5 %≈ 82′Love75 %56 %31 %70 %
77.5 %≈ 88′Love75 %65 %43 %58 %
82.5 %≈ 93′Tension83 %74 %55 %45 %
87.5 %≈ 99′Sadness90 %83 %76 %48 %
92.5 %≈ 105′Sadness91 %83 %86 %68 %
97.5 %≈ 110′Love88 %78 %82 %82 %
Icarus

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

Kathy Bates

Miss Swaffer

Joss Ackland

Mr. Swaffer

TH
Tony Haygarth

Mr. Smith

FV
Fiona Victory

Mrs. Smith

TB
Tom Bell

Isaac Foster

ZW
Zoë Wanamaker

Mary Foster

WS
William Scott-Masson

Mr. Wilcox

EM
Eve Matheson

Mrs. Wilcox

DH
Dave Hill

Jack Vincent

Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Canon Van Stone

MS
Matthew Scurfield

MW
Margery Withers

JH
Janet Henfrey

PW
Paul Whitby

AM
Angela Morant

Details

Directed by
Beeban Kidron
Written by
Joseph Conrad, Tim Willocks
Type
Movies
Released
1997
Runtime
113 min
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.7 · 3,859 ratings
Feels mostly
Love
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