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2:13

2009. Directed by Charles Adelman, written by Mark Thompson.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

1 / 3

Fails

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    4 women characters. 2 of them speak.
  2. No 2. Who talk to each other
    Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other.
  3. No 3. About something besides a man
    Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.

Second opinion

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Poster for 2:13

The film

A police profiler has just returned from psychiatric leave only to find that he is caught up in a serial killer's rampage. Fighting to keep buried the trauma of his childhood, he must confront the all too-familiar flesh masks that the killer leaves on the faces of his victims. He must face his own demons along with the killer to save his small eroding existence.

Released
25 Apr 2009
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Rated
Not Rated
IMDb
4.9 / 10
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Russell 372 lines, man
  2. Jeffrey 111 lines, man
  3. Dr. Simmons 99 lines, man
  4. Amanda 89 lines, woman
  5. John 47 lines, man
  6. Carter 33 lines, man
  7. Jacobs 28 lines, man
  8. Sedgewick 21 lines, man
  9. Owner 13 lines, man
  10. Cop 1 12 lines
Full cast, 25 people
  • Mark Thompson as Russell Spivey
  • Mark Pellegrino as John Tyler
  • Teri Polo as Amanda Richardson
  • Kevin Pollak as Dr. Simmons
  • Dwight Yoakam as S&M Shop Owner
  • Jere Burns as Jeffrey Nobels
  • Ken Howard as Sheriff Sedgewick
  • Patrick J. Adams as Teenage Carter
  • Kenton Duty as Young Russell
  • Jaime Alba as Jamie Rossi
  • Deborah Carson as Rebecca Tyler
  • E.J. Callahan as Cemetary Owner
  • Rick Chambers as Reporter
  • Greg Cromer as Jacobs
  • Don Danielson as Elevator Technician
  • Jonathan Decker as Young Tyler
  • Kim Delgado as Orderly Bragg
  • Randy Flagler as Orderly Rothman
  • Jamison Jones as Tyler's Father
  • Harry Karp as Bernie Paul
  • Mike Kimmel as Mr. Barnes
  • Kathleen Randazzo as Hospital Official
  • DonnaMarie Recco as Justine
  • Lyman Ward as Police Captain
  • Dayna O'Brien as Gretchen Spivey

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 6 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 8% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 278

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 611
7 to 12354
13 to 18412
19 to 24421
25 to 3054
31 to 36317
37 to 42034
43 to 48016
49 to 5400
55 to 60028
61 to 66055
67 to 72314
73 to 78726
79 to 84021
85 to 90228
91 to 961511
97 to 102621
103 to 108534
109 to 114015
115 to 12008
121 to 126316
127 to 132911
133 to 138055
139 to 144214
145 to 150850
151 to 156414
157 to 16209
163 to 168413
169 to 17403
175 to 18036
181 to 18624
187 to 192018
193 to 19816
199 to 20403
205 to 21001
211 to 21604
217 to 22202
223 to 22802
229 to 23402
235 to 24002
241 to 246217
247 to 252115
253 to 258013
259 to 26405
265 to 270010
271 to 276122
277 to 27804

The evidence

  • Straight from the script
  • Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 12 are women's.

98 lines from women, 741 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

4 women and 18 men in the cast. 2 women and 11 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 2 of 915. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 135 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

  • First line by a woman
  • Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 11% of the words (771), men 89% (6,257). Women have 12% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.

Exhibit D: the test the other way

Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.

Conversations between two named characters

Exhibit E: behind the camera

None of the 12 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 0% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Charles Adelman (gender not listed)
Written by
Mark Thompson (man)
Produced by
Charles Adelman (gender not listed), David A. Armstrong (man), G. Richard Beddingfield (gender not listed), Keith Walley (man), Mark Thompson (man)
Edited by
Russell Harnden III (man)
Production design by
Gregg Gibbs (man)
Costumes by
Niklas J. Palm (gender not listed)
Cast by
Dean E. Fronk (man), Donald Paul Pemrick (man)

The crew, department by department

  • Production

    0 women, 5 men, 2 not listed

  • Costume & Make-Up

    0 women, 0 men, 2 not listed

  • Art

    0 women, 1 men

  • Camera

    0 women, 1 men

  • Other crew

    0 women, 1 men

  • Directing

    0 women, 0 men, 1 not listed

  • Editing

    0 women, 1 men

  • Sound

    0 women, 1 men

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit F: how old the stars were

Women: 39 on average. Men: 45 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Teri Polo 39

Men

Kenton Duty 13, Patrick J. Adams 27, Mark Pellegrino 44, Kevin Pollak 51, Dwight Yoakam 52, Mark Thompson 53, Jere Burns 54, Ken Howard 65

Exhibit G: the money

What it cost and made, where TMDB lists it.

Budget
$3.5 million
Box office
Not listed

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 278 scenes and 915 lines of dialogue. How the test works

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