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Train Dreams

2025 · 102 min · Director: Clint Bentley ★ IMDb 7.5 · 117,838 ratings

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A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.

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Train Dreams (2025) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Melancholy 35%, Nostalgia 25%, Empathy 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

  1. Relief10%
  2. Awe10%

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Why it feels this way

The strongest emotional signals are Melancholy, Nostalgia, Empathy. Genres: Drama. AI estimate.

Is it worth watching?

Consider this title if you are looking for Melancholy, Nostalgia and Empathy. Its IMDb rating of 7.5/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 74/100.

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Emotional journey

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  • Sadness
  • Melancholy
  • Love

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No dominant emotion

Dominant emotion: Love

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: Melancholy

Dominant emotion: Awe

Sadness
Melancholy
Love
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 3 %, then peaks around 48 %, then dips around 98 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensitySadnessMelancholyLove
2.5 %≈ 3′Love55 %18 %27 %48 %
7.5 %≈ 8′Love65 %10 %16 %63 %
12.5 %≈ 13′Love73 %8 %14 %73 %
17.5 %≈ 18′Love64 %13 %18 %53 %
22.5 %≈ 23′Tension55 %21 %20 %19 %
27.5 %≈ 28′Tension61 %28 %29 %23 %
32.5 %≈ 33′Love64 %23 %36 %48 %
37.5 %≈ 38′Love64 %31 %41 %43 %
42.5 %≈ 43′Tension78 %63 %52 %31 %
47.5 %≈ 48′Sadness91 %86 %64 %38 %
52.5 %≈ 54′Sadness87 %84 %66 %41 %
57.5 %≈ 59′Melancholy73 %64 %65 %33 %
62.5 %≈ 64′Melancholy66 %53 %66 %23 %
67.5 %≈ 69′Melancholy68 %54 %64 %26 %
72.5 %≈ 74′Sadness65 %51 %56 %31 %
77.5 %≈ 79′Melancholy65 %50 %54 %33 %
82.5 %≈ 84′Sadness74 %61 %61 %43 %
87.5 %≈ 89′Melancholy81 %64 %70 %46 %
92.5 %≈ 94′Awe76 %45 %66 %38 %
97.5 %≈ 99′Melancholy67 %30 %58 %33 %
Man in a hole

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

NA
Nathaniel Arcand

Ignatius Jack

AH
Alfred Hsing

John Diehl

Billy

Will Patton

Narrator (voice)

DP
David Paul Olsen

JP
John Patrick Lowrie

CT
Chuck Tucker

Silent Man

RP
Rob Price

Curious Logger

BL
Brandon Lindsay

Elijah Brown

ER
Eric Ray Anderson

Boss

BC
Beau Charles

Young Logger

RR
Rick Rivera

Foreman. New Cut

TM
Taylor McKinley

Logger. New Cut

AS
Ashton Singer

Avery Pinkham

Details

Directed by
Clint Bentley
Written by
Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley, Denis Johnson
Type
Movies
Released
2025
Runtime
102 min
Country
United States of America
Genres
Drama
Ratings
★ IMDb 7.5 · 117,838 ratings
Feels mostly
Melancholy
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