Film Profile · STEP-BROTHERS
Step Brothers
Detections137,998
Night Frames73%
Dialogue WPM111
Dom. Emotionneutral
GENOME
Movie DNA
Six core dimensions, each scored against the genre baseline.
Darkness-77% vs genre
11.1/100
Very Bright
Action Intensity+10% vs genre
69/100
High
People Density+6% vs genre
79/100
Social
Indoor / Outdoor
87% indoor
Indoor · 87.4% indoors
Object Diversity
79/100
High
Pacing
0.9 cuts/min
Highly Variable · cuts/min
FINGERPRINT
The full shape, vs. genre
Six axes overlaid against the average for this film's primary genre.
Step BrothersComedy avg · 17 titles
THE ARC
Motion & brightness across the runtime
Hover to scrub. Spikes mark high-action sequences. Dips reveal quiet stretches.
Motion Intensity
Brightness
People
STRUCTURE
Scene mix by act
Three-act split — how the visual tone shifts from setup through climax.
PEAKS & VALLEYS
When the film pushes — and breathes
The single most-intense minute and longest stretch of stillness.
CHROMA
Color signature
Frame-sampled palette — temperature, saturation, and how the look shifts across the runtime.
Temperaturewarm
Saturationmuted
Frames sampled5,062
Film color bandhow the palette shifts across the runtime · 60 buckets
0:00¼½¾end
Overall palette6 dominant colors · % of sampled frames
#4F3017
23.0%
#725739
20.9%
#898177
16.9%
#364242
15.3%
#566368
12.7%
#B2B4B1
11.2%
Palette by scene type5 dominant colors per context · sampled within scene class
Action scenes
#4A3726
#725937
#7C7667
#BCC1C1
#9C9990
Fight scenes
#54412D
#695A4D
#4A290F
#817E7D
#B3B5B3
Night scenes
#4B2D16
#5E4937
#6E6863
#29434F
#9C9A97
Outdoor scenes
#6F593F
#4E321A
#828078
#344A52
#B2B4B0
Romantic scenes
#4A3926
#857C73
#785B3C
#AFB2B0
#345A6B
Vibrant scenes
#714220
#8C6C3C
#8A7514
#21596C
#14778E
DETECTIONS
What appears on screen most
The four most-present objects — full breakdown with categories in Deep Dive.
ON SCREEN
Cast at a glance
Top 3 actors by screen time, color-coded by dominant emotion.
JC
John C. Reilly
Dale Doback
34.2m · angry
WF
Will Ferrell
Brennan Huff
33.7m · angry
RJ
Richard Jenkins
Dr. Robert Doback
18.0m · angry
AI-DISCOVERED FACTS
AI-Discovered Facts — Step Brothers (2008)
Insights surfaced by machine analysis of every frame, audio track, and object.
- Step Brothers shatters genre norms with an astonishing 85% of its scenes filmed indoors, more than 15 out of 16 Comedies average at just 62%.
- 4,491 unique people spotted (92% of frames)
- "brennan" is said 57 times — once every 1.9 minutes.
- John C. Reilly is on screen for 34 of 106 minutes — 32% of the runtime.
- 104 profanity instances across the runtime — roughly one every 61 seconds.
- Only 10.0% of all detected faces are smiling across the entire film.
- At 125 BPM, the soundtrack rarely lets up — one of the faster-paced scores in the database.
- 2,671 unique words spoken out of 11,716 total — a vocabulary richness of 22.8%.
- AI detected 79 unique object types across 137,998 frame-by-frame detections.
- 1,010 unique chairs spotted (20% of frames)
- 1,105 unique ties spotted (25% of frames)
- 676 unique wine glasses spotted (9% of frames)
- 418 unique cups spotted (8% of frames)
- 458 unique bottles spotted (6% of frames)
- 242 unique umbrellas spotted (4% of frames)
- 226 unique couchs spotted (6% of frames)
- 137 unique beds spotted (6% of frames)
- 204 unique cars spotted (4% of frames)
- Features 4,121 high-action sequences (14% of the film)
- Features 367 dog appearances
- 126 weapon appearances (1 per minute)
- Contains 104 profanities (1.0 per minute)
- 10% of frames are close-ups
- The film's emotional journey ends on a neutral note
- Shot predominantly with warm tones
DIALOGUE
Words across the runtime
Volume and pace at a glance. Top vocabulary and per-act WPM in Deep Dive.
57% dialogue43% silence / score
11,716
total words
111
words / min
104 · 0.9%
profanity flagged
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