Passes the Bechdel test

Basic Instinct 2

Name: Basic Instinct 2
Released: 2006

2006. Directed by Michael Caton-Jones, written by Joe Eszterhas and Leora Barish and Henry Bean.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
15 women characters. 6 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 125.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.

The film

Crime novelist Catherine Tramell is living in London, and becomes the center of police investigation (yet again) when her football player boyfriend drowns in a car accident and it is revealed that he was already dead of a drug overdose before Tramell drove the car into water. Police psychoanalyst Dr. Michael Glass is called for examining Tramell, and is intrigued by the seductive and manipulative woman. On the other hand , his friend Det. Roy Washburn is sure Tramell is guilty. Tramell asks Glass to treat her for her 'risk addiction' problem, and with each therapy session, Glass gets more and more suspicious about her intentions. As more and more murders are committed, including that of Glass' ex-wife, Glass becomes obsessed with proving Tramell's guilt although the evidence is contradictory.

Released: 31 Mar 2006
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Rated: R
IMDb: 4.4 / 10
Metascore: 26 / 100
Awards: 8 wins & 6 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Andrew 365 lines
Catherine 214 lines, woman
Milena 66 lines, woman
Washburn 64 lines, man
Denise 20 lines, woman
Richman 15 lines
Tower 11 lines
Laney 10 lines
Fergie 8 lines, man
Rosenman 7 lines, man

Full cast, 35 people

Sharon Stone as Catherine Tramell
David Morrissey as Michael Glass
Charlotte Rampling as Milena Gardosh
David Thewlis as Roy Washburn
Stan Collymore as Kevin Franks
Indira Varma as Denise Glass
Heathcote Williams as Jakob Gerst
Hugh Dancy as Adam Towers
Terence Harvey as Henry Rose
Jan Chappell as Solicitor
Neil Maskell as Ferguson
Ellen Thomas as Prosecutor
Flora Montgomery as Michelle Broadwin
Kata Dobó as Magda
Iain Robertson as Peter Ristedes
Danièle Lydon as Susan Bard
Christopher Brand as Angry Patient
Charlotte Purton as Snuffly Patient
Adam Allfrey as Skinhead
Mark Sangster as Court Reporter 1
Tim Berrington as Court Reporter 2
Vee Vimolmal as Thai Prostitute
Simon Lenagan as Big Man in Bar
Clair Tebbut as Big Man's Wife
Aisling O'Neill as Screaming Woman
Martin Heathcote as Stockbroker
Robyn Cooper as Prostitute (uncredited)
Peter Rnic as Drug Dealer (uncredited)
Keith How as Builder (uncredited)
Alexandra Staden as Patient (uncredited)
João Costa Menezes as Soho Cool (uncredited)
André Schneider as Policeman (uncredited)
Robert Clarke as Police Officer / Nightclub Customer (uncredited)
Susan Christie as Prostitute
Charles Simpson as David Bard

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 54% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 125

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	0
4 to 6	3	0
7 to 9	1	0
10 to 12	1	1
13 to 15	36	15
16 to 18	16	3
19 to 21	6	0
22 to 24	8	1
25 to 27	4	5
28 to 30	11	0
31 to 33	25	1
34 to 36	13	0
37 to 39	20	0
40 to 42	4	0
43 to 45	20	0
46 to 48	8	0
49 to 51	2	7
52 to 54	20	0
55 to 57	0	16
58 to 60	0	0
61 to 63	1	0
64 to 66	10	0
67 to 69	5	1
70 to 72	1	0
73 to 75	7	1
76 to 78	0	0
79 to 81	0	0
82 to 84	0	1
85 to 87	1	17
88 to 90	10	0
91 to 93	0	11
94 to 96	0	0
97 to 99	10	0
100 to 102	0	6
103 to 105	0	3
106 to 108	1	0
109 to 111	11	0
112 to 114	17	0
115 to 117	0	0
118 to 120	20	1
121 to 123	15	0
124 to 125	1	0

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scene

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

MILENA: Just thinking about Andrew's patients wears me out. . In fact, I'm going outside to "smoke up 11 • Don't forget to give me the name of the c… MILENA: Thank you. My God ..• CATHERINE: Are you all right? CATHERINE: Can I get you a drink?

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 77 are women's.

308 lines from women, 90 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

15 women and 19 men in the cast. 6 women and 5 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 4 of 857. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 40 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 77% of the words (5,122), men 23% (1,547).

Exhibit E: the test the other way

Run the other way, for men, the film scores 1 out of 3.

Conversations between two named characters

Two women

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

2 of the 14 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 22% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Michael Caton-Jones (man)
Written by: Leora Barish (man), Henry Bean (man)
Produced by: Mario Kassar (man), Joel B. Michaels (man), Aslan Nadery (gender not listed), Andrew G. Vajna (man)
Shot by: Gyula Pados (man)
Edited by: István Király (man), John Scott (man)
Music by: John Murphy (man)
Production design by: Norman Garwood (man)
Costumes by: Beatrix Aruna Pasztor (woman)
Cast by: Karen Lindsay-Stewart (woman)