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The Diary of a Teenage Girl

2015 · 102 min · Director: Marielle Heller ★ IMDb 6.8 · 35,853 ratings

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A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.

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The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Confusion 30%, Anxiety 25%, Sadness 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 Confusion, Anxiety, Sadness. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance. AI estimate.

Is it worth watching?

Consider this title if you are looking for Confusion, Anxiety and Sadness. Its IMDb rating of 6.8/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 70/100.

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Emotional journey

AI · from subtitles
  • Empathy
  • Sadness
  • Disturbing

Not enough subtitle evidence

No dominant emotion

Dominant emotion: Empathy

Dominant emotion: Disturbing

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Hope

Empathy
Sadness
Disturbing
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 peaks around 73 %, then peaks around 83 %, then dips around 98 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityEmpathySadnessDisturbing
2.5 %≈ 3′Empathy50 %38 %13 %42 %
7.5 %≈ 8′Disturbing55 %40 %14 %48 %
12.5 %≈ 13′Empathy58 %49 %24 %46 %
17.5 %≈ 18′Empathy55 %51 %33 %41 %
22.5 %≈ 23′Disturbing50 %44 %31 %40 %
27.5 %≈ 28′Sadness48 %41 %33 %35 %
32.5 %≈ 33′Empathy48 %38 %28 %29 %
37.5 %≈ 38′Disturbing54 %38 %25 %36 %
42.5 %≈ 43′Tension60 %48 %36 %41 %
47.5 %≈ 48′Empathy54 %46 %36 %31 %
52.5 %≈ 54′Empathy52 %46 %38 %29 %
57.5 %≈ 59′Sadness59 %55 %46 %34 %
62.5 %≈ 64′Empathy64 %60 %50 %44 %
67.5 %≈ 69′Sadness74 %65 %55 %60 %
72.5 %≈ 74′Tension78 %64 %51 %65 %
77.5 %≈ 79′Tension75 %65 %52 %59 %
82.5 %≈ 84′Sadness78 %75 %64 %59 %
87.5 %≈ 89′Empathy76 %75 %57 %51 %
92.5 %≈ 94′Hope59 %53 %38 %21 %
97.5 %≈ 99′Sadness40 %28 %27 %2 %
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

Kristen Wiig

Charlotte Worthington

Alexander Skarsgård

Monroe Rutherford

Christopher Meloni

Pascal MacCorkill

AL
Austin Lyon

Ricky Wasserman

MW
Madeleine Waters

Kimmie Minter

QN
Quinn Nagle

Chuck Saunders

AW
Abby Wait

Gretel

JP
John Parsons

Burt

MB
Miranda Bailey

Andrea

CD
Carson D. Mell

Michael Cocaine

DC
Davy Clements

Arnie

SR
Susannah Rogers

Aline Kominsky (voice)

AW
Anthony Williams

Frankie

CL
Charles Lewis III

Cool English Teacher

DF
David Fine

Old Hippie

JG
Joshua Grannell

Drag Queen

NH
Nate Heller

Band Member

LH
Lance Hill

Band Member

Details

Directed by
Marielle Heller
Written by
Marielle Heller, Phoebe Gloeckner
Type
Movies
Released
2015
Runtime
102 min
Country
United States
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.8 · 35,853 ratings
Feels mostly
Confusion
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