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Waking the Dead

2000 · 105 min · Director: Keith Gordon ★ IMDb 6.4 · 8,005 ratings

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A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.

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Waking the Dead (2000) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Sadness 30%, Empathy 25%, Melancholy 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

  1. Love10%

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Why it feels this way

The strongest emotional signals are Sadness, Empathy, Melancholy. Genres: Drama, Romance, Mystery. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Sadness, Empathy and Melancholy. Its IMDb rating of 6.4/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 66/100.

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Emotional journey

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  • Love
  • Sadness
  • Tension

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No dominant emotion

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: Curiosity

Dominant emotion: Love

Dominant emotion: Tension

Love
Sadness
Tension
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 8 %, then rises around 83 %, then peaks around 93 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityLoveSadnessTension
2.5 %≈ 3′Sadness48 %8 %33 %35 %
7.5 %≈ 8′Curiosity44 %20 %20 %31 %
12.5 %≈ 13′Love45 %29 %18 %32 %
17.5 %≈ 18′Curiosity50 %30 %31 %35 %
22.5 %≈ 24′Love51 %35 %41 %32 %
27.5 %≈ 29′Sadness48 %34 %40 %26 %
32.5 %≈ 34′Love45 %30 %36 %24 %
37.5 %≈ 39′Sadness46 %26 %28 %33 %
42.5 %≈ 45′Tension53 %25 %19 %46 %
47.5 %≈ 50′Tension61 %38 %25 %54 %
52.5 %≈ 55′Love68 %43 %34 %58 %
57.5 %≈ 60′Tension74 %34 %45 %55 %
62.5 %≈ 66′Sadness75 %30 %56 %48 %
67.5 %≈ 71′Tension71 %32 %51 %53 %
72.5 %≈ 76′Curiosity69 %36 %44 %59 %
77.5 %≈ 81′Tension65 %26 %43 %56 %
82.5 %≈ 87′Sadness70 %31 %55 %54 %
87.5 %≈ 92′Love81 %65 %70 %43 %
92.5 %≈ 97′Love85 %84 %69 %23 %
97.5 %≈ 102′Love85 %85 %65 %10 %
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

PH
Paul Hipp

Molly Parker

Juliet Beck

IC
Ivonne Coll

PH
Paul Hipp

Danny Pierce

John Carroll Lynch

Father Mileski

Stanley Anderson

Fielding's Father

Hal Holbrook

Isaac Green

LM
Larry Marshall

Ed Harris

Jerry Charmichael

BD
Bruce Dinsmore

Tony Dayton

PG
Patricia Gage

Fielding's Mother

WM
Walt MacPherson

Sarah's Father

IC
Ivonne Coll

Gisela Higgens

NL
Nelson Landrieu

Francisco Higgens

Lawrence Dane

Governor Kinosis

TC
Tony Calabretta

Sonny Marchi

Mimi Kuzyk

Adele Green

WM
Walter Massey

Otto Ellis

Details

Directed by
Keith Gordon
Written by
Robert Dillon, Scott Spencer
Type
Movies
Released
2000
Runtime
105 min
Country
Canada, United States of America
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.4 · 8,005 ratings
Feels mostly
Sadness
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