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Catch and Release

2006 · 111 min · Director: Susannah Grant ★ IMDb 5.9 · 31,035 ratings

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In Boulder, Colorado, Grady, who comes from an old money family but who has struck out on his own as a half owner of a fly fishing business, has just unexpectedly passed. Beyond her extreme grief, Gray, his loving fiancée, the two who were to be married in only a couple of days, is placed in a difficult position as they had no assets in their joint names, and without a will she is legally left with nothing of his except the engagement ring, one half of a family heirloom set along with the wedding ring she was about to receive, the engagement ring which his mother, Ellen, would like back. Gray cannot even afford to live in the rental house she and Grady were to live in, and as such, she, at least in the short term, moves into Grady's old room with his two roommates and best friends, Dennis, Grady's quiet, straight-laced business partner, and somewhat clueless Sam, a copywriter of sorts with Celestial Seasonings Tea. The fourth in that buddy friendship is Fritz, a Los Angeles based director of commercials, he who came in for the funeral and who is staying with Dennis, Sam and now Gray for as long as he is in town. Gray has never much liked seemingly self-absorbed Fritz, his current presence which only strengthens that notion as he displays no sense of anything about Grady, let alone grief. In the process of dealing with his estate, Gray discovers some hidden aspects of what was Grady's recent life, both of a financial nature and an associated personal nature. She turns in part to Grady's friends for answers and support, and while Dennis is the one who wishes she turned to in being secretly in love with her, Gray ends up bonding unexpectedly with Fritz as this information answers a lot of questions she had about his and Grady's friendship. Things within this grouping get even more complicated with the arrival into town from Los Angeles of a woman named Maureen and her preschool aged son Mattie, who are somewhat in the center of that hidden issue concerning Grady.

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Catch and Release (2006) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Sadness 30%, Empathy 25%, Humor 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

20%Humor
  1. Humor20%
  2. Love15%
  3. Relief10%

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The strongest emotional signals are Sadness, Empathy, Humor. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance. AI estimate.

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  • Empathy
  • Sadness
  • Humor

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No dominant emotion

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: Humor

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Empathy

Dominant emotion: Hope

Empathy
Sadness
Humor
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 18 %, then peaks around 83 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityEmpathySadnessHumor
2.5 %≈ 3′Sadness55 %45 %50 %32 %
7.5 %≈ 8′Sadness51 %38 %44 %30 %
12.5 %≈ 14′Sadness49 %27 %33 %34 %
17.5 %≈ 19′Humor46 %21 %19 %35 %
22.5 %≈ 25′Tension48 %26 %20 %31 %
27.5 %≈ 31′Sadness54 %40 %38 %27 %
32.5 %≈ 36′Sadness57 %45 %46 %25 %
37.5 %≈ 42′Sadness57 %39 %41 %28 %
42.5 %≈ 47′Tension56 %33 %32 %31 %
47.5 %≈ 53′Humor53 %25 %21 %40 %
52.5 %≈ 58′Humor51 %24 %16 %50 %
57.5 %≈ 64′Humor53 %35 %24 %45 %
62.5 %≈ 69′Empathy51 %44 %30 %35 %
67.5 %≈ 75′Humor51 %48 %29 %31 %
72.5 %≈ 80′Empathy57 %54 %38 %24 %
77.5 %≈ 86′Sadness65 %59 %54 %15 %
82.5 %≈ 92′Sadness69 %64 %56 %13 %
87.5 %≈ 97′Empathy68 %63 %43 %18 %
92.5 %≈ 103′Hope61 %49 %23 %23 %
97.5 %≈ 108′Hope57 %38 %10 %20 %
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

Jennifer Garner

Gray Wheeler

Timothy Olyphant

Fritz Messing

Sam Jaeger

Dennis

Juliette Lewis

Maureen Monette

Fiona Shaw

Mrs. Ellen Douglas

JF
Joshua Friesen

Mattie

CR
Christopher Redman

Flower Delivery Guy

JK
Joyce Krenz

Housekeeper

SB
Sonja Bennett

Caterer

YC
Yorgo Constantine

Co-worker

GC
Georgia Craig

Persephone

NW
Nancy Wetzel

Cyclist

DB
Dillard Brinson

Michael Soltman

Terence Kelly

Mr. Wheeler

Gabrielle Rose

Mrs. Wheeler

SL
Sacha Levin

Drummer

MH
Marcus Hondro

Principal (uncredited)

Details

Directed by
Susannah Grant
Written by
Susannah Grant
Type
Movies
Released
2006
Runtime
111 min
Country
United States
Ratings
★ IMDb 5.9 · 31,035 ratings
Feels mostly
Sadness
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