Passes the Bechdel test
Case 39
2010. Directed by Christian Alvart, written by Ray Wright.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
15 women characters. 8 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 22 scenes out of 161. -
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
A dedicated social worker takes a special interest in the case of a vulnerable 10-year-old girl whose parents appear to be abusing her. After rescuing the child and taking her into her own home, she begins to experience a series of terrifying and unexplained events involving the people around her. As she investigates the girl's disturbing past, she discovers a horrifying supernatural secret that turns the child she believed she was protecting into a deadly threat. Forced to confront her own fears and fight for survival, she must find a way to escape the terrifying force that has entered her life.
- Released
- 01 Oct 2010
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.2 / 10
- Metascore
- 25 / 100
- Awards
- 3 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Emily 299 lines, woman
- Lucy 120 lines, woman
- Barron 54 lines, man
- Doug 51 lines
- Margaret 27 lines, woman
- Edward 24 lines, man
- Wayne 22 lines, man
- Interviewer 21 lines, man
- Nancy 13 lines, woman
- Coroner 6 lines
Full cast, 38 people
- Renée Zellweger as Emily Jenkins
- Jodelle Ferland as Lillith Sullivan
- Ian McShane as Detective Mike Barron
- Bradley Cooper as Douglas J. Ames
- Adrian Lester as Wayne
- Kerry O'Malley as Margaret Sullivan
- Callum Keith Rennie as Edward Sullivan
- Cynthia Stevenson as Nancy
- Alexander Conti as Diego
- Philip Cabrita as Javier
- Vanesa Tomasino as Javier's Wife
- Mary Black as Custody Judge
- Domenico D'Ambrosio as Domenico D'Ambrosio
- Benita Ha as Therapist
- J. Winston Carroll as Judge
- Michael Bean as Co-Worker
- Lesley Ewen as Co-Worker
- David Patrick Green as Chief Psychiatrist
- Dee Jay Jackson as Bus Driver
- Taya Calicetto as Young Emily
- Alisen Richmond-Peck as Emily's Mother
- Darryl Quon as Inmate
- Suzanne Bastien as Nurse
- Jane Braithwaite as Nurse
- Colin Lawrence as Police Sergeant
- Fran Gebhard as Coordinator
- Dagmar Midcap as News Anchor
- Bill Mondy as Interviewer
- Andrew Airlie as Doctor
- Sarah-Jane Redmond as Barron's Wife
- Charles Zuckermann as Demon Person
- Yvonne Valdez as Mrs. Lynch
- Paul Duchart as Priest
- Daniel Bacon as Businessperson
- Darren E. Scott as Young Cop
- Dalias Blake as Detention Center Cop
- Phillip Mitchell as Lead Guard
- Fulvio Cecere as Fire Marshall
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 14% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 161
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 10 | 0 |
| 5 to 8 | 3 | 2 |
| 9 to 12 | 17 | 0 |
| 13 to 16 | 27 | 4 |
| 17 to 20 | 16 | 5 |
| 21 to 24 | 9 | 10 |
| 25 to 28 | 17 | 0 |
| 29 to 32 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 to 36 | 6 | 4 |
| 37 to 40 | 2 | 0 |
| 41 to 44 | 17 | 6 |
| 45 to 48 | 9 | 0 |
| 49 to 52 | 12 | 0 |
| 53 to 56 | 1 | 0 |
| 57 to 60 | 6 | 0 |
| 61 to 64 | 8 | 9 |
| 65 to 68 | 8 | 2 |
| 69 to 72 | 27 | 15 |
| 73 to 76 | 12 | 1 |
| 77 to 80 | 33 | 2 |
| 81 to 84 | 20 | 0 |
| 85 to 88 | 7 | 0 |
| 89 to 92 | 9 | 0 |
| 93 to 96 | 21 | 26 |
| 97 to 100 | 28 | 14 |
| 101 to 104 | 20 | 0 |
| 105 to 108 | 7 | 5 |
| 109 to 112 | 15 | 0 |
| 113 to 116 | 2 | 0 |
| 117 to 120 | 7 | 1 |
| 121 to 124 | 5 | 2 |
| 125 to 128 | 10 | 7 |
| 129 to 132 | 5 | 4 |
| 133 to 136 | 5 | 3 |
| 137 to 140 | 3 | 9 |
| 141 to 144 | 2 | 2 |
| 145 to 148 | 30 | 0 |
| 149 to 152 | 14 | 0 |
| 153 to 156 | 19 | 3 |
| 157 to 160 | 6 | 1 |
| 161 to 161 | 0 | 0 |
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.
EMILY: Emily Jennings. Child Services? We spoke on the phone...? MARGARET: You said the seventeenth. EMILY: Today is the seventeenth. MARGARET: Is not.
EMILY: Come down, I'd like to meet you. EMILY: My name's Emily. What's yours? LUCY: Lucy. EMILY: Pretty name. Pretty girl.
EMILY: I knew someone at school named Lucy, she was a writer. Do you ever write? I do sometimes, it helps me sort out how I'm feeling. EMILY: Okay, I just shot like a gallon of water up my nose. So much for establishing trust. EMILY: What's happening to you? I can help. Let me help. EMILY: What is it, sweetheart?
EMILY: I just wanted you to know I haven't forgotten about you. I'm doing everything I can. LUCY: If I disappear will you come look for me? EMILY: You're not going to disappear. LUCY: If I do?
EMILY: Group therapy for kids, what's that say about the world? EMILY: Good news. You get to leave here tomorrow. LUCY: Doug said I might have to go to a state home. EMILY: Only for a few days, till we find a better place.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 78 are women's.
475 lines from women, 137 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
15 women and 22 men in the cast. 8 women and 10 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 2 of 711.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 6 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 69% of the words (4,064), men 31% (1,835). Women have 78% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
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
29
Two men
0
Exhibit F: behind the camera
7 of the 16 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 30% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Christian Alvart (man)
- Written by
- Ray Wright (man)
- Produced by
- Steve Golin (man), Lisa Bruce (woman), Alix Madigan (woman), Kevin Misher (man), Scott Thaler (man)
- Shot by
- Hagen Bogdanski (man)
- Edited by
- Mark Goldblatt (man)
- Music by
- Michl Britsch (gender not listed)
- Production design by
- John Willett (man)
- Costumes by
- Monique Prudhomme (woman)
- Cast by
- Sarah Halley Finn (woman), Randi Hiller (woman), Heike Brandstatter (woman), Coreen Mayrs (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
7 women, 25 men, 14 not listed
-
Visual Effects
0 women, 9 men, 20 not listed
-
Camera
1 women, 9 men, 13 not listed
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Art
2 women, 6 men, 12 not listed
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Sound
2 women, 11 men, 7 not listed
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Production
9 women, 4 men, 4 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
8 women, 1 men, 4 not listed
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Directing
0 women, 3 men, 4 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 35 on average. Men: 40 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Jodelle Ferland 14, Kerry O'Malley 39, Renée Zellweger 40, Cynthia Stevenson 47
Men
Alexander Conti 15, Bradley Cooper 34, Philip Cabrita 34, Adrian Lester 40, Callum Keith Rennie 48, Ian McShane 66
Exhibit H: the money
It made 1.1 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $27 million
- Box office
- $29 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 161 scenes and 711 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
