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Bridget Jones's Baby

2016. Directed by Sharon Maguire, written by Helen Fielding and Dan Mazer and Emma Thompson.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    24 women characters. 26 of them speak.
  2. Yes 2. Who talk to each other
    In 25 scenes out of 182.
  3. 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.

Poster for Bridget Jones's Baby

The film

On her 43rd birthday, Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) is awakened by her mother, who reminds her that her time to have children is running out. She goes to attend the funeral of Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), who is presumed dead after a plane crash. While there she sees her ex Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) and his new wife. They bump into each other somewhat awkwardly, then go their separate ways.

Released
16 Sep 2016
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rated
R
IMDb
6.4 / 10
Metascore
59 / 100
Awards
2 wins & 6 nominations total
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Bridget 407 lines, woman
  2. Mark 148 lines, man
  3. Jack 126 lines, man
  4. Miranda 62 lines, woman
  5. Mum 34 lines, woman
  6. Shazzer 25 lines, woman
  7. Alice 23 lines, woman
  8. Dr Rawlings 20 lines, woman
  9. Dr. Rawlings 20 lines, woman
  10. Jude 16 lines, woman
Full cast, 66 people
  • Renée Zellweger as Bridget
  • Colin Firth as Mark
  • Patrick Dempsey as Jack
  • Jim Broadbent as Dad
  • Gemma Jones as Mum
  • Emma Thompson as Dr Rawlings
  • Sally Phillips as Shazzer
  • James Callis as Tom
  • Shirley Henderson as Jude
  • Sarah Solemani as Miranda
  • Neil Pearson as Richard Finch
  • Kate O'Flynn as Alice
  • Celia Imrie as Una
  • Jessica Hynes as Magda
  • Julian Rhind-Tutt as Fergus
  • Ben Willbond as Giles
  • Paul Bentall as Minister
  • Agni Scott as Camilla
  • Katia Elizarova as Glamorous Looking Woman
  • Tom Rosenthal as Josh - Researcher
  • Beattie Edmondson as Laura (Young Assistant)
  • Laura Checkley as Susan - Floor Manager
  • Joanna Scanlan as Cathy - Make Up Lady
  • Erron Gordon as Hard News Studio Director
  • Laura Pearce as Hard News Studio PA
  • John Webb as Hard News Studio Vision Mixer
  • Patrick Malahide as George Wilkins
  • William Joseph Firth as Dread-Locked Guy
  • Ed Sheeran as Ed Sheeran
  • Rafferty Railton as Spike
  • Abigail Kimber as Ruby
  • Amy-Jayne Leigh as Poppy
  • Adam Leese as Photographer
  • Darren Boyd as Jeremy
  • Dolly Wells as Woney
  • Alana Hood as Ginny
  • George Barnden as Boy One
  • Freddie Barnden as Boy Two
  • Cameron Lane as Boy Three
  • Joseph Harmon as Milo
  • Enzo Cilenti as Gianni
  • Ben Ashenden as Pierce
  • Kasia Kołeczek as Girl Band Member 2
  • Aiste S. Gram as Girl Band Member 1
  • Maria Alexe as Girl Band Member 3
  • Souad Faress as Judge
  • Nick Mohammed as Ariyaratna
  • David Forest as Graham
  • Maitland Chandler as Edward
  • Dominic Coleman as Village Hall Photographer
  • Debra Gillett as Daisy
  • Chooye Bay as Studio Guest
  • Bruce Wang as General Lu Tong
  • Cathy Murphy as Cashier
  • Ashley McGuire as Midwife
  • Janet Henfrey as Mavis Enderbury
  • Richard Rycroft as Election Official
  • David Crow as Wedding Minister
  • Shirley Dixon as Mrs Darcy
  • Donald Douglas as Admiral Darcy
  • James Faulkner as Uncle Geoffrey
  • Lee Nicholas Harris as Festival Head Security (uncredited)
  • Hiten Patel as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
  • Jag Patel as Driver (uncredited)
  • Charlie Rawes as Neanderthal Man (uncredited)
  • Clea Martin as Ex girlfriend (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 3% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 182

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 4163
5 to 8133
9 to 12212
13 to 16282
17 to 20159
21 to 24910
25 to 28186
29 to 32134
33 to 361219
37 to 401213
41 to 4490
45 to 48110
49 to 522721
53 to 561518
57 to 6056
61 to 6410
65 to 6811
69 to 72303
73 to 76330
77 to 80165
81 to 8464
85 to 8874
89 to 9223
93 to 96329
97 to 1001115
101 to 104144
105 to 1082831
109 to 1124210
113 to 1163223
117 to 1201216
121 to 1241122
125 to 12813
129 to 13203
133 to 13613
137 to 1403015
141 to 14410
145 to 148122
149 to 15220
153 to 15672
157 to 16082
161 to 164150
165 to 16894
169 to 1722430
173 to 1762521
177 to 1801410
181 to 18244

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.
BRIDGET: Less old....more childhood. BRIDGET/CAMILLA: Hello. Hello. BRIDGET: Nice memorial.....as memorials go. Almost makes one look forward to one’s own.
BRIDGET: Oh God, oh God. Who told you? MIRANDA: Guilty. Thought it would cheer you up. Hashtag ‘Bridge’s bday’. SUSAN: So hot... so many candles.
CATHY: Oooh, it’s harder than you think. BRIDGET: It’s all in the throat. MIRANDA: And after “NGochi”... MIRANDA: ... how do we plan to celebrate tonight?
FLOOR MANAGER: Twenty seconds to air. MIRANDA: Anyway, far too many women are wasting their lives having babies in their thirties and forties when they should be getting on with their car… FLOOR MANAGER: TEN, nine, EIGHT, seven, SIX, five... MIRANDA: Hello, and welcome to Hard News.
MIRANDA: They won’t sack Bridget. She rescued this show, she made it relevant. She made us award winning! And as a result she has no life. Because ev… BRIDGET: Thank you Miranda.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 64 are women's.

655 lines from women, 365 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

24 women and 27 men in the cast. 26 women and 20 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 4 of 1,048. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 12 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

  • First line by a woman
  • Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 65% of the words (8,831), men 35% (4,837). Women have 64% of the lines, so their lines run longer 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

Exhibit F: behind the camera

6 of the 12 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 51% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Sharon Maguire (woman)
Written by
Helen Fielding (woman), Dan Mazer (man), Emma Thompson (woman)
Produced by
Eric Fellner (man), Tim Bevan (man), Debra Hayward (woman)
Shot by
Andrew Dunn (man)
Edited by
Melanie Oliver (woman)
Music by
Craig Armstrong (man)
Production design by
John Paul Kelly (man)
Cast by
Nina Gold (woman)

The crew, department by department

  • Sound

    3 women, 9 men, 3 not listed

  • Costume & Make-Up

    3 women, 3 men, 5 not listed

  • Production

    7 women, 2 men

  • Writing

    4 women, 1 men

  • Art

    1 women, 2 men, 1 not listed

  • Other crew

    1 women, 1 men

  • Directing

    1 women, 1 men

  • Camera

    0 women, 1 men

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 51 on average. Men: 55 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Sarah Solemani 34, Sally Phillips 46, Renée Zellweger 47, Shirley Henderson 50, Emma Thompson 57, Gemma Jones 73

Men

James Callis 45, Patrick Dempsey 50, Colin Firth 56, Jim Broadbent 67

Exhibit H: the money

It made 6.1 times what it cost.

Budget
$35 million
Box office
$212 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 182 scenes and 1,048 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works

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