Fails the Bechdel test
30 Minutes or Less
2011. Directed by Ruben Fleischer, written by Michael Diliberti and Matthew Sullivan.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
1 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
7 women characters. 4 of them speak. -
No
2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.
The film
The not so smart Dwayne intends to open a massage parlor with his partner Travis, but he does not have money for the investment. He decides to hire a hit-man to kill his father, The Major, who won a large amount of money in the lottery years ago, but the killer demands US$ 100,000 for the job. Dwayne and Travis kidnap the pizza delivery boy Nick and they dress Nick in a vest with a timer and several bombs. Then Dwayne tells Nick that he has ten hours to rob US$ 100,000 from a bank. Once he does, he would give Nick the code to release the vest. Nick summons his best friend Chet to help him in the heist but the scheme does not work the way Dwayne has plotted.
- Released
- 12 Aug 2011
- Genres
- Action, Comedy, Crime
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6 / 10
- Metascore
- 49 / 100
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Will 311 lines, man
- Chet 199 lines, man
- Dwayne 195 lines, man
- Jay 66 lines, man
- Kate 39 lines, woman
- Vaughn 29 lines, man
- Juicy 17 lines, woman
- Major 16 lines
- Christopher 9 lines, man
- Fat Man 7 lines, man
Full cast, 28 people
- Jesse Eisenberg as Nick
- Danny McBride as Dwayne
- Aziz Ansari as Chet
- Nick Swardson as Travis
- Dilshad Vadsaria as Kate
- Michael Peña as Chango
- Bianca Kajlich as Juicy
- Fred Ward as The Major
- Samuel Johnston as 15 Year Old #1
- Jack Foley as 15 Year Old #2
- Elizabeth Shapiro as Chet's Date
- Brett Gelman as Pizza Boss
- Paul Tierney as Rodney
- Staci Lynn Fletcher as Family Dollar Cashier
- Gary Brichetto as Mr. Fisher
- Ilyssa Fradin as Mom
- Grace Heemstra as Daughter
- Torey Adkins as Big Guy
- Rebecca Cox as Sandra
- Rick Irwin as Bank Manager
- Sam Tedesco as Security Guard
- Wayne Bibbs as Bank Customer
- Jamaal Hines as Cop Outside Bank
- Joseph Lyman as Alley Cop
- David Fleischer as Bus Passenger #4
- Lucas Fleischer as Random Local
- Matthew Sullivan as Random Tanning Guy
- Angelique Sky as Club Bartender (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 3% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 110
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 to 6 | 0 | 16 |
| 7 to 9 | 0 | 31 |
| 10 to 12 | 0 | 8 |
| 13 to 15 | 0 | 12 |
| 16 to 18 | 25 | 21 |
| 19 to 21 | 0 | 96 |
| 22 to 24 | 0 | 3 |
| 25 to 27 | 0 | 51 |
| 28 to 30 | 0 | 7 |
| 31 to 33 | 0 | 51 |
| 34 to 36 | 4 | 65 |
| 37 to 39 | 3 | 46 |
| 40 to 42 | 0 | 18 |
| 43 to 45 | 0 | 25 |
| 46 to 48 | 13 | 16 |
| 49 to 51 | 0 | 20 |
| 52 to 54 | 8 | 49 |
| 55 to 57 | 0 | 4 |
| 58 to 60 | 0 | 4 |
| 61 to 63 | 0 | 18 |
| 64 to 66 | 0 | 3 |
| 67 to 69 | 0 | 28 |
| 70 to 72 | 0 | 34 |
| 73 to 75 | 1 | 4 |
| 76 to 78 | 0 | 11 |
| 79 to 81 | 1 | 30 |
| 82 to 84 | 0 | 24 |
| 85 to 87 | 0 | 7 |
| 88 to 90 | 0 | 5 |
| 91 to 93 | 2 | 18 |
| 94 to 96 | 2 | 52 |
| 97 to 99 | 2 | 7 |
| 100 to 102 | 0 | 1 |
| 103 to 105 | 4 | 10 |
| 106 to 108 | 2 | 26 |
| 109 to 110 | 0 | 8 |
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, 7 are women's.
67 lines from women, 829 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
7 women and 14 men in the cast. 4 women and 7 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 75 of 927.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 273 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 6% of the words (663), men 94% (11,214). Women have 7% 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
Two women
0
Two men
65
Exhibit E: behind the camera
3 of the 13 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 22% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Ruben Fleischer (man)
- Written by
- Michael Diliberti (man)
- Story by
- Michael Diliberti (man)
- Produced by
- Stuart Cornfeld (man), Ben Stiller (man), Jeremy Kramer (gender not listed)
- Shot by
- Jess Hall (man)
- Edited by
- Alan Baumgarten (man)
- Music by
- Ludwig Göransson (man)
- Production design by
- Maher Ahmad (man)
- Costumes by
- Christie Wittenborn (woman)
- Cast by
- Jeanne McCarthy (woman), Nicole Abellera Hallman (woman)
The crew, department by department
-
Sound
0 women, 8 men
-
Art
0 women, 5 men, 2 not listed
-
Production
3 women, 3 men, 1 not listed
-
Visual Effects
0 women, 3 men, 3 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
3 women, 0 men, 1 not listed
-
Other crew
2 women, 2 men
-
Directing
0 women, 3 men
-
Writing
0 women, 2 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 30 on average. Men: 38 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Dilshad Vadsaria 25, Bianca Kajlich 34
Men
Jesse Eisenberg 27, Aziz Ansari 28, Danny McBride 34, Nick Swardson 34, Michael Peña 35, Fred Ward 68
Exhibit G: the money
It made 1.4 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $28 million
- Box office
- $40.5 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 110 scenes and 927 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
