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Tara Road

2005 · 101 min · Director: Gillies MacKinnon ★ IMDb 6 · 2,115 ratings

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A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

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Tara Road (2005) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Empathy 30%, Love 25%, Sadness 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

25%Love
  1. Love25%
  2. Humor15%
  3. Hope10%

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Why it feels this way

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

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Consider this title if you are looking for Empathy, Love and Sadness. Its IMDb rating of 6.0/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 63/100.

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Emotional journey

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  • Sadness
  • Empathy
  • Tension

Not enough subtitle evidence

No dominant emotion

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: Empathy

Dominant emotion: Humor

Dominant emotion: Relief

Sadness
Empathy
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. Not enough subtitle evidence
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Dominant emotion

Intensity peaks around 3 %, then dips around 33 %, then peaks around 57 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensitySadnessEmpathyTension
2.5 %≈ 3′Tension78 %52 %47 %73 %
7.5 %≈ 8′Sadness75 %59 %56 %66 %
12.5 %≈ 13′Sadness65 %56 %60 %51 %
17.5 %≈ 18′Empathy54 %45 %54 %38 %
22.5 %≈ 23′Empathy48 %36 %48 %26 %
27.5 %≈ 28′Empathy42 %29 %41 %15 %
32.5 %≈ 33′Empathy39 %24 %35 %13 %
37.5 %≈ 38′Humor44 %28 %36 %25 %
42.5 %≈ 43′Sadness50 %34 %41 %39 %
47.5 %≈ 48′Humor52 %31 %40 %46 %
52.5 %≈ 53′Tension65 %43 %49 %54 %
57.5 %≈ 58′Sadness79 %70 %71 %49 %
62.5 %≈ 63′Sadness72 %65 %70 %33 %
67.5 %≈ 68′Humor60 %45 %55 %29 %
72.5 %≈ 73′Sadness64 %51 %60 %41 %
77.5 %≈ 78′Empathy68 %59 %66 %49 %
82.5 %≈ 83′Sadness70 %51 %63 %44 %
87.5 %≈ 88′Relief72 %32 %53 %33 %
92.5 %≈ 93′Relief70 %18 %43 %20 %
97.5 %≈ 98′Not enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidence
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

Iain Glen

Danny

HM
Heike Makatsch

HM
Heike Makatsch

Bernadette

AZ
August Zirner

AZ
August Zirner

Greg

RW
Ruby Wax

RW
Ruby Wax

Carlotta

MD
Maria Doyle Kennedy

AD
Alan Devlin

AD
Alan Devlin

Barney

DM
Dearbhla Molloy

Finola

JB
Jennifer Buckley

Secretary

VC
Virginia Cole

Mrs. Doyle

EC
Eileen Colgan

Nora

EF
Enrique Fonseca

Limo Driver

JF
Jia Francis

Heidi

JH
James Herrick

Hubie

Details

Directed by
Gillies MacKinnon
Written by
Cynthia Cidre, Shane Connaughton, Maeve Binchy
Type
Movies
Released
2005
Runtime
101 min
Country
Ireland
Genres
Drama
Ratings
★ IMDb 6 · 2,115 ratings
Feels mostly
Empathy
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