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The Year I Started Masturbating

2022 · 98 min · Director: Erika Wasserman ★ IMDb 5.2 · 4,467 ratings

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Ambitious overachiever Hanna just needs one more kid before her life is perfect. Instead, her baby daddy unexpectedly dumps her. Suddenly, she finds herself without a place to live, job or family. With every fiber of her being set for victory, Hanna refuses to give up and decides to win him back. But to get there means having to win something much more important, love and desire for herself and who she is.

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The Year I Started Masturbating (2022) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Empathy 28%, Humor 25%, Sadness 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

25%Humor
  1. Humor25%
  2. Hope12%

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

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Consider this title if you are looking for Empathy, Humor and Sadness. Its IMDb rating of 5.2/10 suggests a mixed audience reception; consider how well the emotional profile suits you. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 57/100.

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Emotional journey

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  • Hope
  • Humor
  • Sadness

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Dominant emotion: Humor

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: Hope

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Joy

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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 98 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityHopeHumorSadness
2.5 %≈ 2′Humor38 %13 %33 %5 %
7.5 %≈ 7′Humor41 %13 %36 %9 %
12.5 %≈ 12′Humor41 %13 %38 %14 %
17.5 %≈ 17′Humor46 %10 %32 %24 %
22.5 %≈ 22′Sadness56 %13 %24 %43 %
27.5 %≈ 27′Sadness55 %20 %21 %49 %
32.5 %≈ 32′Sadness50 %21 %29 %35 %
37.5 %≈ 37′Humor48 %20 %38 %19 %
42.5 %≈ 42′Humor41 %19 %38 %15 %
47.5 %≈ 47′Humor41 %21 %40 %16 %
52.5 %≈ 51′Humor48 %30 %43 %14 %
57.5 %≈ 56′Hope48 %35 %36 %15 %
62.5 %≈ 61′Humor44 %28 %29 %21 %
67.5 %≈ 66′Tension46 %21 %25 %29 %
72.5 %≈ 71′Hope51 %30 %33 %28 %
77.5 %≈ 76′Humor59 %32 %36 %33 %
82.5 %≈ 81′Sadness66 %28 %25 %50 %
87.5 %≈ 86′Hope63 %39 %19 %43 %
92.5 %≈ 91′Hope61 %54 %26 %21 %
97.5 %≈ 96′Joy67 %57 %35 %15 %
Rags to riches

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

JZ
Jesper Zuschlag

NE
Nour El Refai

HD
Henrik Dorsin

VC
Vera Carlbom

HF
Hannes Fohlin

SE
Siw Erixon

AD
Antonio Di Ponziano

PL
Pablo Leiva Wenger

PL
Pablo Leiva Wenger

Ali

DW
David Wiberg

Ola

SS
Sara Shirpey

Asrin

AG
Albin Grenholm

Petter

DÖ
Disa Östrand

Louise

AD
Amadeus Durmaz

Eli

HS
Hulda Sveindís Jóhannesdóttir

Singing Course Teacher

HJ
Happy Jankell

Waitress

ZZ
Zacke Zachrisson

Josef

AG
Andreas Grant

Psychologist

Vd
Victor de Almeida

Real Estate Agent

Details

Directed by
Erika Wasserman
Written by
Erika Wasserman, Christin Magdu
Type
Movies
Released
2022
Runtime
98 min
Country
Sweden
Ratings
★ IMDb 5.2 · 4,467 ratings
Feels mostly
Empathy
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