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Jayne Mansfield's Car

2012 · 122 min · Director: Billy Bob Thornton ★ IMDb 6.3 · 4,168 ratings

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A young man in the 1940s raises a family in Alabama after his wife leaves him for an Englishman and moves to England. When the wife dies, she leaves a request to be brought back to Alabama to be buried, and at that point, the man hasn't seen her in nearly thirty years. The two families, her original family she abandoned, and her English family, meet and make an attempt to adjust to each other, with uneven results.

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Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Empathy 30%, Sadness 25%, Anxiety 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

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The strongest emotional signals are Empathy, Sadness, Anxiety. Genres: Drama. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Empathy, Sadness and Anxiety. Its IMDb rating of 6.3/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 65/100.

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Emotional journey

AI · from subtitles
  • Sadness
  • Empathy
  • Tension

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Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: Humor

Dominant emotion: Empathy

Dominant emotion: Disturbing

Sadness
Empathy
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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 28 %, then peaks around 63 %, then peaks around 98 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensitySadnessEmpathyTension
2.5 %≈ 3′Tension43 %18 %17 %35 %
7.5 %≈ 9′Sadness44 %30 %25 %31 %
12.5 %≈ 15′Sadness43 %34 %30 %28 %
17.5 %≈ 21′Sadness43 %29 %27 %29 %
22.5 %≈ 27′Humor40 %23 %26 %26 %
27.5 %≈ 34′Humor39 %23 %27 %24 %
32.5 %≈ 40′Humor46 %32 %33 %31 %
37.5 %≈ 46′Sadness56 %46 %45 %40 %
42.5 %≈ 52′Sadness55 %46 %50 %35 %
47.5 %≈ 58′Empathy48 %35 %43 %23 %
52.5 %≈ 64′Disturbing50 %34 %41 %23 %
57.5 %≈ 70′Disturbing60 %41 %45 %32 %
62.5 %≈ 76′Disturbing65 %43 %43 %44 %
67.5 %≈ 82′Tension64 %43 %48 %49 %
72.5 %≈ 88′Empathy63 %44 %55 %49 %
77.5 %≈ 95′Tension64 %34 %48 %56 %
82.5 %≈ 101′Humor61 %25 %40 %50 %
87.5 %≈ 107′Empathy57 %33 %49 %31 %
92.5 %≈ 113′Empathy61 %45 %59 %35 %
97.5 %≈ 119′Sadness65 %52 %58 %48 %
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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

Shawnee Smith

Vicky Caldwell

Ray Stevenson

Phillip Bedford

John Hurt

Kingsley Bedford

Robert Duvall

Jim Caldwell

Billy Bob Thornton

Skip Caldwell

Frances O'Connor

Camilla Bedford

Robert Patrick

Jimbo Caldwell

Katherine LaNasa

Donna Baron

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Ron White

Neal Baron

Details

Directed by
Billy Bob Thornton
Type
Movies
Released
2012
Runtime
122 min
Country
United States, Russia
Genres
Drama
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.3 · 4,168 ratings
Feels mostly
Empathy
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