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Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off

2003 · 85 min · Director: Paul Hoen ★ IMDb 5.9 · 3,564 ratings

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Eddie Ogden is his pa's pride and joy as well as the Groundhogs team's only asset as baseball talent. Then Eddie discovers a taste and talent for cuisine. Although his brothers Andy and Alex, and Pa as well as classmates enjoy his dishes, they only mock cooking, so he arranges and 'accidental' registration for him and two friends in Home Economics. Only Eddie -secretly again- and nerdy shrew Bridget Simons enter a national cooking competition for school-kids. Ma finds out and to his surprise proves supportive, as well as the teacher, who once won the competition herself.

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Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off (2003) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Joy 35%, Humor 25%, Inspiration 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

35%Joy
25%Humor
  1. Joy35%
  2. Humor25%
  3. Relief10%

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Why it feels this way

The strongest emotional signals are Joy, Humor, Inspiration. Genres: Comedy, Family, Sport. AI estimate.

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Emotional journey

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  • Hope
  • Joy
  • Tension

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Dominant emotion: Humor

Dominant emotion: Hope

Dominant emotion: Joy

Dominant emotion: Empathy

Dominant emotion: Tension

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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 23 %, then peaks around 98 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityHopeJoyTension
2.5 %≈ 2′Humor47 %20 %22 %17 %
7.5 %≈ 6′Humor45 %20 %19 %19 %
12.5 %≈ 11′Humor46 %21 %18 %23 %
17.5 %≈ 15′Humor45 %28 %19 %23 %
22.5 %≈ 19′Hope41 %33 %20 %20 %
27.5 %≈ 23′Humor45 %26 %23 %24 %
32.5 %≈ 28′Humor54 %25 %35 %28 %
37.5 %≈ 32′Joy58 %40 %51 %25 %
42.5 %≈ 36′Joy57 %48 %51 %28 %
47.5 %≈ 40′Empathy55 %38 %33 %41 %
52.5 %≈ 45′Tension56 %24 %14 %53 %
57.5 %≈ 49′Empathy60 %24 %14 %50 %
62.5 %≈ 53′Hope57 %38 %21 %41 %
67.5 %≈ 57′Empathy56 %46 %24 %41 %
72.5 %≈ 62′Hope59 %53 %34 %49 %
77.5 %≈ 66′Hope64 %59 %44 %57 %
82.5 %≈ 70′Hope68 %61 %46 %61 %
87.5 %≈ 74′Hope71 %63 %51 %65 %
92.5 %≈ 79′Tension78 %60 %59 %59 %
97.5 %≈ 83′Empathy78 %57 %63 %35 %
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Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

TB
Taylor Ball

OB
Orlando Brown

OB
Orlando Brown

Francisco

ML
Mark L. Taylor

Hank Ogden

Rose McIver

Hannah

KL
Kylie Leydon

Bridget Simons

BF
Bobby Flay

Bobby Flay

SB
Susan Brady

Sarah Ogden

NM
Nick Miller

Alex Ogden (as Nicholas Miller)

JB
Johnny Barker

Andy Ogden (as John Barker)

JS
Jason Sellers

Marcus

MS
Matthew Sellers

Jordan

RJ
Renée Ji

Kimberly

DC
Daniel Costello

Oliver

JG
James Gaylyn

Longo

SC
Shara Connolly

Kid #1

PR
Peter Rowley

Snack Shack Guy

TJ
Tobias Jack Alexander

Kid #2

NV
Nicko Vella

Eagle's Catcher

FA
Faine Alexander

Penny

Details

Directed by
Paul Hoen
Written by
Dan Berendsen, Jack Jason, Rick Bitzelberger
Type
Movies
Released
2003
Runtime
85 min
Country
United States
Ratings
★ IMDb 5.9 · 3,564 ratings
Feels mostly
Joy
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