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Home Fries

1998 · 93 min · Director: Dean Parisot ★ IMDb 5.2 · 9,646 ratings

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Dorian and Angus chase down their womanizing stepfather with a helicopter, frightening him to death. In his effort to cover their tracks, Dorian begins investigating his stepfather's mistress, Sally. She works at a fast-food drive-through, she's pregnant and Dorian quickly falls in love with her. Unfortunately, his scheming mother wants Sally dead. And Sally isn't sure she wants Dorian to be her child's father and also his brother.

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Home Fries (1998) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Humor 30%, Love 25%, Empathy 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

30%Humor
25%Love
  1. Humor30%
  2. Love25%

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Why it feels this way

The strongest emotional signals are Humor, Love, Empathy. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance. AI estimate.

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  • Tension
  • Humor
  • Love

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Dominant emotion: Humor

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Sympathy

Dominant emotion: Love

Tension
Humor
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 rises around 78 %, then peaks around 88 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityTensionHumorLove
2.5 %≈ 2′Humor47 %43 %27 %7 %
7.5 %≈ 7′Tension56 %53 %29 %3 %
12.5 %≈ 12′Sympathy56 %46 %29 %0 %
17.5 %≈ 16′Sympathy54 %35 %31 %1 %
22.5 %≈ 21′Sympathy59 %39 %45 %5 %
27.5 %≈ 26′Humor64 %48 %59 %9 %
32.5 %≈ 30′Humor63 %49 %59 %14 %
37.5 %≈ 35′Humor57 %44 %50 %26 %
42.5 %≈ 40′Love53 %30 %40 %40 %
47.5 %≈ 44′Love51 %23 %38 %35 %
52.5 %≈ 49′Humor54 %26 %43 %26 %
57.5 %≈ 53′Love55 %30 %38 %35 %
62.5 %≈ 58′Sympathy59 %44 %35 %31 %
67.5 %≈ 63′Humor63 %55 %44 %18 %
72.5 %≈ 67′Sympathy63 %55 %39 %19 %
77.5 %≈ 72′Tension69 %64 %30 %20 %
82.5 %≈ 77′Tension80 %79 %34 %19 %
87.5 %≈ 81′Tension84 %80 %36 %33 %
92.5 %≈ 86′Love76 %54 %38 %54 %
97.5 %≈ 91′Love68 %23 %43 %62 %
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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

Catherine O'Hara

Beatrice Lever

KR
Kim Robillard

KR
Kim Robillard

Billy

DM
Daryl Mitchell

LF
Lanny Flaherty

LF
Lanny Flaherty

Red Jackson

CE
Chris Ellis

Chris Ellis

Henry Lever

BD
Blue Deckert

BD
Blue Deckert

Sheriff

MW
Mark Walters

Deputy

SS
Shane Steiner

Soldier in Jeep

TM
Theresa Merritt

Mrs. Vaughan

JP
Jill Parker-Jones

Lamaze Instructor

MS
Morgana Shaw

Lucy Garland

RG
Robert Graham

Reverend

ZM
Zeke Mills

Tobacco Warehouse Supervisor

BC
Brady Coleman

Doctor

JD
Jean Donatto

Nurse #1

Details

Directed by
Dean Parisot
Written by
Vince Gilligan
Type
Movies
Released
1998
Runtime
93 min
Country
United States of America
Ratings
★ IMDb 5.2 · 9,646 ratings
Feels mostly
Humor
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