Passes the Bechdel test

Anora

Name: Anora
Released: 2024

2024. Directed by Sean Baker, written by Sean Baker.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
16 women characters. 9 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 6 scenes out of 172.
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, though someone marked that rating as dubious.

The film

Anora, a young stripper from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

Released: 08 Nov 2024
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rated: R
IMDb: 7.4 / 10
Metascore: 91 / 100
Awards: Won 5 Oscars. 154 wins & 276 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Ani 374 lines, woman
Toros 236 lines, man
Ivan 166 lines, man
Igor 92 lines, man
Garnik 82 lines, man
Crystal 20 lines, woman
Diamond 20 lines, woman
Jimmy 18 lines, man
Sharnov 17 lines, man
Galina 16 lines, woman

Full cast, 33 people

Mikey Madison as Ani
Mark Eydelshteyn as Ivan
Yura Borisov as Igor
Karren Karagulian as Toros
Vache Tovmasyan as Garnik
Luna Sofía Miranda as Lulu
Lindsey Normington as Diamond
Darya Ekamasova as Galina Zakharov
Aleksey Serebryakov as Nikolai Zakharov
Anton Bitter as Tom
Ivy Wolk as Crystal
Vlad Mamai as Aleks
Maria Tichinskaya as Dasha
Paul Weissman as Nick
Emily Weider as Nikki
Vincent Radwinsky as Jimmy
Brittney Rodriguez as Dawn
Sophia Carnabuci as Jenny
Ella Rubin as Vera
Ross Brodar as Mansion Day Guard
Zoë Vnak as Rachel
Morgan Charlton as Sunny
Nazar Khamis as Vlad
Charles Jang as Vegas Hotel Manager
Lana Svidonovich as Toros' Wife
Masha Zhak as Tatiana's Hostess
Sebastian Conelli as Tow Truck Driver
Irina Finley as Bartender
Mariana Orozco Arango as Pearl
Artyom Trubnikov as Michael Sharnov
Michael Sergio as Judge
Charlton Lamar as Court Guard
Mickey O'Hagan as Divorce Center Clerk

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 2% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 172

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 4	0	0
5 to 8	36	21
9 to 12	7	1
13 to 16	9	9
17 to 20	31	21
21 to 24	6	6
25 to 28	15	13
29 to 32	12	17
33 to 36	19	5
37 to 40	3	5
41 to 44	4	4
45 to 48	0	0
49 to 52	23	15
53 to 56	15	3
57 to 60	0	4
61 to 64	10	25
65 to 68	6	35
69 to 72	3	13
73 to 76	3	18
77 to 80	11	26
81 to 84	6	8
85 to 88	1	3
89 to 92	7	24
93 to 96	4	9
97 to 100	44	78
101 to 104	6	14
105 to 108	4	18
109 to 112	18	33
113 to 116	15	22
117 to 120	1	15
121 to 124	3	4
125 to 128	8	16
129 to 132	8	3
133 to 136	3	2
137 to 140	28	26
141 to 144	16	18
145 to 148	6	31
149 to 152	2	18
153 to 156	21	8
157 to 160	14	16
161 to 164	6	5
165 to 168	25	27
169 to 172	4	5

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.

ANI: I'm eating here. LULU: Where's what's-her-name?

VERA: Yo. Yo. VERA: Did you pick up milk? ANI: Do you see milk in the fridge? VERA: No.

ANI: Hi. CRYSTAL: Hey. Well cool.

ANI: Back next Tuesday. VERA: Today is Tuesday. ANI: Correct. And I'll be back next Tuesday. VERA: That's a week.

SUNNY: Oh my god. You're so lucky. LULU: You hit the jackpot, bitch.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 42 are women's.

463 lines from women, 644 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

16 women and 14 men in the cast. 9 women and 13 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 15 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 40% of the words (3,329), men 60% (5,003). Women have 42% 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

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

1 of the 10 people in these jobs is a woman. Across the whole crew, 20% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Sean Baker (man)
Written by: Sean Baker (man)
Produced by: Samantha Quan (woman), Alex Coco (man), Sean Baker (man)
Shot by: Drew Daniels (man)
Edited by: Sean Baker (man)
Production design by: Stephen Phelps (man)
Costumes by: Jocelyn Pierce (gender not listed)
Cast by: Sean Baker (man)

The crew, department by department

Production

6 women, 8 men, 9 not listed
Sound

0 women, 10 men, 10 not listed
Camera

0 women, 2 men, 14 not listed
Other crew

2 women, 10 men, 4 not listed
Art

0 women, 2 men, 9 not listed
Visual Effects

0 women, 3 men, 8 not listed
Lighting

0 women, 1 men, 5 not listed
Costume & Make-Up

1 women, 0 men, 4 not listed

Women
Men
Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 30 on average. Men: 41 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Mikey Madison 25, Luna Sofía Miranda 25, Lindsey Normington 28, Darya Ekamasova 40

Men

Mark Eydelshteyn 22, Yura Borisov 31, Vache Tovmasyan 38, Karren Karagulian 55, Aleksey Serebryakov 60

Exhibit H: the money

It made 9.4 times what it cost.

Budget: $6 million
Box office: $56.3 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 172 scenes and 1,131 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works

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