Passes the Bechdel test
Assault on Precinct 13
2005. Directed by Jean-François Richet, written by John Carpenter and James DeMonaco.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
3 women characters. 4 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 3 scenes out of 92. -
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
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, Officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up of cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
- Released
- 19 Jan 2005
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.3 / 10
- Metascore
- 54 / 100
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Roenick 193 lines, man
- Zambrano 74 lines, man
- Iris 70 lines, woman
- Jasper 59 lines, man
- Alex 58 lines, woman
- Duvall 49 lines, man
- Beck 27 lines, man
- Anna 21 lines, woman
- Smiley 17 lines, man
- Kahane 14 lines, man
Full cast, 26 people
- Ethan Hawke as Sergeant Jake Roenick
- Laurence Fishburne as Marion Bishop
- Gabriel Byrne as Captain Marcus Duvall
- Maria Bello as Dr. Alex Sabian
- Drea de Matteo as Iris Ferry
- John Leguizamo as Beck
- Brian Dennehy as Sargeant Jasper O'Shea
- Ja Rule as Smiley
- Currie Graham as Mike Kahane
- Aisha Hinds as Anna
- Peter Bryant as Lt. Holloway
- Matt Craven as Officer Kevin Capra
- Fulvio Cecere as Ray Portnow
- Kim Coates as Officer Rosen
- Hugh Dillon as Tony
- Tig Fong as Danny Barbero
- Dorian Harewood as Gil
- Arnold Pinnock as Carlyle
- Edward A. Queffelec as Bronco Gunman
- Sasha Roiz as Jason Elias
- Ray Kahnert as Priest
- Jasmin Geljo as Marko
- Philip Marshall as Hagen
- Robert Hayley as Sniper James
- Titus Welliver as Milos
- D-Teflon as Swat Officer #2 Sgt Lewis (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 6% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 92
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 to 4 | 1 | 26 |
| 5 to 6 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 to 8 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 to 10 | 0 | 4 |
| 11 to 12 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 to 14 | 7 | 11 |
| 15 to 16 | 0 | 13 |
| 17 to 18 | 2 | 7 |
| 19 to 20 | 1 | 6 |
| 21 to 22 | 8 | 11 |
| 23 to 24 | 3 | 11 |
| 25 to 26 | 2 | 13 |
| 27 to 28 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 to 30 | 1 | 9 |
| 31 to 32 | 3 | 13 |
| 33 to 34 | 19 | 15 |
| 35 to 36 | 4 | 9 |
| 37 to 38 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 to 40 | 17 | 39 |
| 41 to 42 | 2 | 11 |
| 43 to 44 | 0 | 5 |
| 45 to 46 | 1 | 2 |
| 47 to 48 | 1 | 16 |
| 49 to 50 | 4 | 23 |
| 51 to 52 | 0 | 8 |
| 53 to 54 | 7 | 16 |
| 55 to 56 | 1 | 1 |
| 57 to 58 | 7 | 33 |
| 59 to 60 | 6 | 21 |
| 61 to 62 | 5 | 16 |
| 63 to 64 | 0 | 1 |
| 65 to 66 | 1 | 1 |
| 67 to 68 | 0 | 3 |
| 69 to 70 | 2 | 23 |
| 71 to 72 | 0 | 6 |
| 73 to 74 | 9 | 12 |
| 75 to 76 | 0 | 4 |
| 77 to 78 | 0 | 1 |
| 79 to 80 | 19 | 23 |
| 81 to 82 | 3 | 11 |
| 83 to 84 | 2 | 10 |
| 85 to 86 | 3 | 5 |
| 87 to 88 | 0 | 2 |
| 89 to 90 | 1 | 5 |
| 91 to 92 | 9 | 45 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
IRIS: I'm not getting a signal. ALEX: Neither am I. What the fuck?
ALEX: -- Me. I'll do it. I'll go. ALEX: It's the only thing that makes sense. I'm not doing any good here. ANNA: Whatever the fuck ever, let's do
ALEX: SHE CAN'T HOTWIRE MY ASS! ANNA: FUCK YOU! THIS BITCH IS SITTING HERE MULTIPLYING SHIT!
IRIS: They're fucking moving! ALEX: 25, 125, 625, 3125
ANNA: Jesus Christ. We made it. Even if they follow now. We'll beat them. You could stop that trigonometry shit now bitch! We out! Alex stops coun… IRIS: They fucking made it! They made it! IRIS: Jesus Christ. They put someone in the truck. They just killed those two women in cold blood.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 23 are women's.
152 lines from women, 498 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
3 women and 22 men in the cast. 4 women and 13 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 26 of 690.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 30 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 19% of the words (2,247), men 81% (9,730). Women have 23% 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
10
Two men
74
Exhibit F: behind the camera
4 of the 15 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 24% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Jean-François Richet (man)
- Written by
- James DeMonaco (man)
- Produced by
- Pascal Caucheteux (man), Jeffrey Silver (man), Stephane Sperry (gender not listed)
- Shot by
- Robert Gantz (man)
- Edited by
- Bill Pankow (man)
- Music by
- Graeme Revell (man)
- Production design by
- Paul D. Austerberry (man)
- Costumes by
- Georgina Yarhi (woman), Vicki Graef (woman)
- Cast by
- Billy Hopkins (man), Suzanne Smith Crowley (woman), Kerry Barden (man), Robin D. Cook (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Sound
6 women, 16 men, 8 not listed
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Production
6 women, 10 men, 11 not listed
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Other crew
1 women, 6 men, 17 not listed
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Art
1 women, 8 men, 5 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 4 men, 8 not listed
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Visual Effects
1 women, 3 men, 5 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
2 women, 2 men, 3 not listed
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Directing
1 women, 3 men, 2 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 33 on average. Men: 44 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Aisha Hinds 29, Drea de Matteo 33, Maria Bello 37
Men
Ja Rule 28, Ethan Hawke 34, Currie Graham 37, Laurence Fishburne 43, John Leguizamo 44, Gabriel Byrne 54, Brian Dennehy 66
Exhibit H: the money
It made 1.2 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $30 million
- Box office
- $35.3 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 92 scenes and 690 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
