Fails the Bechdel test

All of Us Strangers

Name: All of Us Strangers
Released: 2023

2023. Directed by Andrew Haigh, written by Andrew Haigh and Taichi Yamada.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

0 / 3

Fails

No 1. At least two women
Fewer than two women characters.
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 0 out of 3.

The film

One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.

Released: 22 Dec 2023
Genres: Drama, Romance
Rated: R
IMDb: 7.6 / 10
Metascore: 90 / 100
Awards: Nominated for 6 BAFTA Awards. 31 wins & 122 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Adam 266 lines, man
Harry 142 lines, man
Mum 139 lines, woman
Dad 61 lines, man
Man 6 lines, man
Waitress 4 lines, woman
Taxi Driver 2 lines
Andrew Haigh 1 lines
Woman 1 lines, woman

Full cast, 7 people

Andrew Scott as Adam
Paul Mescal as Harry
Carter John Grout as Young Adam
Jamie Bell as Dad
Claire Foy as Mum
Ami Tredrea as Waitress
Sean Tizzard as Dad on train (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 101

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	0
4 to 6	0	0
7 to 9	0	0
10 to 12	0	19
13 to 15	0	0
16 to 18	0	0
19 to 21	0	0
22 to 24	0	0
25 to 27	12	21
28 to 30	2	5
31 to 33	0	5
34 to 36	0	0
37 to 39	0	39
40 to 42	0	32
43 to 45	19	8
46 to 48	37	30
49 to 51	0	12
52 to 54	0	24
55 to 57	0	23
58 to 60	0	43
61 to 63	0	8
64 to 66	0	0
67 to 69	0	16
70 to 72	0	0
73 to 75	6	6
76 to 78	30	29
79 to 81	1	0
82 to 84	0	0
85 to 87	0	36
88 to 90	0	8
91 to 93	14	37
94 to 96	23	37
97 to 99	0	0
100 to 101	0	37

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, 23 are women's.

144 lines from women, 475 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

2 women and 5 men in the cast. 2 women and 3 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 28 of 622. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 126 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 24% of the words (1,266), men 76% (3,922). Women have 23% of the lines, so their lines run longer 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

Two men

Exhibit E: behind the camera

5 of the 12 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 33% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Andrew Haigh (man)
Written by: Andrew Haigh (man)
From the novel by: Taichi Yamada (man)
Produced by: Graham Broadbent (man), Peter Czernin (man), Sarah Harvey (woman)
Shot by: Jamie D. Ramsay (man)
Edited by: Jonathan Alberts (man)
Music by: Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (woman)
Production design by: Sarah Finlay (woman)
Costumes by: Sarah Blenkinsop (woman)
Cast by: Kahleen Crawford (woman)