The Cake Eaters
2007 · 86 min · Director: Mary Stuart Masterson
Show plot summary (may contain spoilers)
In a small town in the countryside, Georgia Kaminski is a fifteen year-old girl with Friedreich's ataxia, a genetic disease that causes progressive damage to the nervous system resulting in clumsy movements, speech problems heading to heart disease. While in a flea market selling goods with her grandmother Marg, Georgia meets the shy twenty-years old Beagle Kimbrough, who works in the cafeteria of her school and is the son of the local butcher Easy. Beagle spent the last years taking care of his ill mother while Easy and Marg have secretly been lovers for many years. Georgia feels that she will have few years of life and decides to lose her virginity with the sensitive Beagle. Meanwhile, Easy's older son Guy returns from New York for the funeral of his mother and seeks out the hairdresser Stephanie, who was his fiancée that he left behind when he moved to New York chasing the dream of becoming a successful musician. During the reunion, the lives of members of both families experience new discoveries and feelings.
Emotional fingerprint
The Cake Eaters (2007) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Empathy 30%, Sadness 25%, Love 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure
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Why it feels this way
The strongest emotional signals are Empathy, Sadness, Love. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance. AI estimate.
Is it worth watching?
Consider this title if you are looking for Empathy, Sadness and Love. Its IMDb rating of 6.2/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 64/100.
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Emotional journey
- Empathy
- Love
- Sadness
Not enough subtitle evidence
No dominant emotion
Dominant emotion: Humor
Dominant emotion: Love
Dominant emotion: Sadness
Dominant emotion: Tension
Dominant emotion: Empathy
Dominant emotion
| % | Approximate minute | Dominant emotion | Overall intensity | Empathy | Love | Sadness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 % | ≈ 2′ | Not enough subtitle evidence | 22 % | 18 % | 12 % | 4 % |
| 7.5 % | ≈ 6′ | Humor | 29 % | 24 % | 18 % | 10 % |
| 12.5 % | ≈ 11′ | Love | 42 % | 36 % | 21 % | 26 % |
| 17.5 % | ≈ 15′ | Sadness | 52 % | 47 % | 20 % | 42 % |
| 22.5 % | ≈ 19′ | Love | 51 % | 44 % | 24 % | 39 % |
| 27.5 % | ≈ 24′ | Tension | 52 % | 39 % | 33 % | 28 % |
| 32.5 % | ≈ 28′ | Love | 53 % | 33 % | 40 % | 18 % |
| 37.5 % | ≈ 32′ | Humor | 47 % | 31 % | 34 % | 15 % |
| 42.5 % | ≈ 37′ | Humor | 48 % | 39 % | 30 % | 22 % |
| 47.5 % | ≈ 41′ | Empathy | 51 % | 43 % | 37 % | 29 % |
| 52.5 % | ≈ 45′ | Love | 53 % | 41 % | 35 % | 31 % |
| 57.5 % | ≈ 49′ | Tension | 62 % | 46 % | 21 % | 38 % |
| 62.5 % | ≈ 54′ | Tension | 66 % | 52 % | 20 % | 40 % |
| 67.5 % | ≈ 58′ | Love | 62 % | 42 % | 42 % | 22 % |
| 72.5 % | ≈ 62′ | Love | 67 % | 46 % | 53 % | 25 % |
| 77.5 % | ≈ 67′ | Empathy | 72 % | 63 % | 38 % | 50 % |
| 82.5 % | ≈ 71′ | Sadness | 71 % | 68 % | 34 % | 58 % |
| 87.5 % | ≈ 75′ | Empathy | 71 % | 62 % | 50 % | 45 % |
| 92.5 % | ≈ 80′ | Love | 67 % | 49 % | 59 % | 24 % |
| 97.5 % | ≈ 84′ | Not enough subtitle evidence | Not enough subtitle evidence | Not enough subtitle evidence | Not enough subtitle evidence | Not enough subtitle evidence |
Cinderella
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
Stacy
Hippie Chick
Maggie Lynn
Young Pregnant Bride
Hipster
Young Beagle
Teenage Boy #1
Teenage Boy #2
Details
- Directed by
- Mary Stuart Masterson
- Written by
- Jayce Bartok, Jayce Bartok
- Type
- Movies
- Released
- 2007
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Country
- United States
- Ratings
- Feels mostly
- Empathy
- Data updated
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