Passes the Bechdel test
Anastasia
1997. Directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, written by Susan Gauthier and Bruce Graham and Bob Tzudiker.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
10 women characters. 3 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 12 scenes out of 112. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.
The film
The daughter of the last Russian Czar, Nicolas II (Rick Jones), Anastasia (Meg Ryan) is found by two Russian con men, Dimitri (John Cusack) and Vladimir (Kelsey Grammer), who seek the reward that her grandmother, the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna (Dame Angela Lansbury), promised to the ones who'll find her. But the evil mystic of the Czar family, Grigori Rasputin (Christopher Lloyd), still wants the Romanov family to be destroyed forever.
- Released
- 21 Nov 1997
- Genres
- Animation, Adventure, Drama
- Rated
- G
- IMDb
- 7.2 / 10
- Metascore
- 61 / 100
- Awards
- Nominated for 2 Oscars. 10 wins & 23 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Anya 137 lines, woman
- Dmitri 124 lines, man
- Rasputin 65 lines, man
- Tatiana 62 lines, woman
- Vladimir 61 lines, man
- Bartok 40 lines, man
- Sophie 13 lines, woman
- Anastasia 12 lines, woman
- Phlegmenkof 9 lines, woman
- Gregor 6 lines, woman
Full cast, 19 people
- Meg Ryan as Anastasia (voice)
- John Cusack as Dimitri (voice)
- Kelsey Grammer as Vladimir (voice)
- Christopher Lloyd as Rasputin (voice)
- Hank Azaria as Bartok (voice)
- Bernadette Peters as Sophie (voice)
- Kirsten Dunst as Young Anastasia (voice)
- Angela Lansbury as Dowager Empress Marie (voice)
- Rick Jones as Czar Nicholas / Servant / Revolutionary Soldier / Ticket Agent (voice)
- Andrea Martin as Phlegmenkoff / Old Woman (voice)
- Glenn Walker Harris Jr. as Young Dimitri (voice)
- Debra Mooney as Actress (voice)
- Arthur Malet as Travelling Man / Major Domo (voice)
- Charity James as Anastasia Impostor (voice)
- Liz Callaway as Anastasia (singing voice)
- Lacey Chabert as Young Anastasia (singing voice)
- Jim Cummings as Rasputin (singing voice)
- Jonathan Dokuchitz as Dimitri (singing voice)
- Mickie McGowan as Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 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 112
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 23 | 9 |
| 4 to 6 | 10 | 5 |
| 7 to 9 | 30 | 6 |
| 10 to 12 | 2 | 0 |
| 13 to 15 | 11 | 2 |
| 16 to 18 | 7 | 14 |
| 19 to 21 | 10 | 9 |
| 22 to 24 | 0 | 3 |
| 25 to 27 | 0 | 4 |
| 28 to 30 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 to 33 | 19 | 27 |
| 34 to 36 | 0 | 35 |
| 37 to 39 | 6 | 8 |
| 40 to 42 | 5 | 15 |
| 43 to 45 | 2 | 1 |
| 46 to 48 | 2 | 3 |
| 49 to 51 | 1 | 1 |
| 52 to 54 | 0 | 1 |
| 55 to 57 | 6 | 13 |
| 58 to 60 | 8 | 13 |
| 61 to 63 | 9 | 8 |
| 64 to 66 | 2 | 1 |
| 67 to 69 | 4 | 13 |
| 70 to 72 | 0 | 0 |
| 73 to 75 | 0 | 0 |
| 76 to 78 | 0 | 1 |
| 79 to 81 | 5 | 19 |
| 82 to 84 | 12 | 11 |
| 85 to 87 | 0 | 7 |
| 88 to 90 | 2 | 4 |
| 91 to 93 | 4 | 6 |
| 94 to 96 | 4 | 4 |
| 97 to 99 | 12 | 5 |
| 100 to 102 | 6 | 7 |
| 103 to 105 | 15 | 13 |
| 106 to 108 | 25 | 15 |
| 109 to 111 | 0 | 3 |
| 112 to 112 | 11 | 22 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
SONYA: Princess Anastasia - you're late and it's all my fault! ANASTASIA: Don't worry, Sonya, no one'll notice. . . ANASTASIA: . . . owwwwwwwww!
TATIANA: Why were you so late tonight ANASTASIA: I was showing Sonya something . . . TATIANA: What were you showing her? ANASTASIA: How to read.
ANASTASIA: My music mox! TATIANA: Anastasia, no!
ANASTASIA: Hurry, Grandmama! TATIANA: Get on! Anastasia, get on! TATIANA: Grab my hand! ANASTASIA: Don't let go!
ANYA: About as bad as you smell! PHLEGMENKOF: No, no, Comrade - you don't want her . . .
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 45 are women's.
253 lines from women, 308 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
10 women and 9 men in the cast. 3 women and 5 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
A woman speaks the first line.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 38 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 43% of the words (2,424), men 57% (3,165). Women have 45% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
Exhibit E: 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
21
Two men
38
Exhibit F: behind the camera
3 of the 14 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 23% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Don Bluth (man), Gary Goldman (man)
- Written by
- Noni White (woman), Susan Gauthier (woman), Bob Tzudiker (man), Bruce Graham (man)
- Produced by
- Gary Goldman (man), Don Bluth (man), Laura Jo 'L.J.' Wentworth (gender not listed)
- Edited by
- Bob Bender (man), Fiona Trayler (woman)
- Music by
- David Newman (man)
- Production design by
- Michael Peraza Jr. (man)
- Cast by
- Brian Chavanne (gender not listed)
The crew, department by department
-
Directing
0 women, 5 men, 17 not listed
-
Visual Effects
1 women, 4 men, 12 not listed
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Sound
1 women, 6 men, 1 not listed
-
Production
2 women, 2 men, 3 not listed
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Writing
2 women, 4 men
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Other crew
0 women, 1 men, 2 not listed
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Editing
1 women, 1 men
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Art
0 women, 1 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 44 on average. Men: 41 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Kirsten Dunst 15, Meg Ryan 36, Bernadette Peters 49, Andrea Martin 50, Angela Lansbury 72
Men
John Cusack 31, Hank Azaria 33, Rick Jones 40, Kelsey Grammer 42, Christopher Lloyd 59
Exhibit H: the money
It made 2.6 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $53 million
- Box office
- $140 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 112 scenes and 608 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
