Passes the Bechdel test

Chasing Sleep

Name: Chasing Sleep
Released: 2000

2000. Directed by Michael Walker, written by Michael Walker.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
2 women characters. 2 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 120.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

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The film

Via Tubitv on the Roku; Jeff Daniels (Traitor) plays a man left devastated by the sudden disappearance of his wife begins to suffer from insomnia which leaves him confused and with a loose grip on reality. From the year 2000 1 hour and 44 minutes rated R

Released: 16 May 2001
Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Rated: R
IMDb: 6.2 / 10
Awards: 2 wins & 2 nominations
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Ed 442 lines, man
Sadie 136 lines, woman
Derm 126 lines, man
Geoffrey 68 lines, man
George 27 lines, man
Susie 27 lines, woman
Operator 24 lines
Stewart 21 lines, man
Mrs Mastrioni 19 lines, woman
Harvey 8 lines, man

Full cast, 13 people

Jeff Daniels as Ed Saxon
Emily Bergl as Sadie
Molly Price as Susie
Gil Bellows as Detective Derm
Ben Shenkman as Officer Stewart
Julian McMahon as George
Zach Grenier as Geoffrey
Guy Sanville as Doctor
Dennis North as Detective Mazurek
Patrick Moug as Detective Snyder
Eros Biox as Baby
Tom Whalen as 911 Operator
Tricia Rose as Voice of Celeste

Who talks, scene by scene

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

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 120

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	0
4 to 6	0	0
7 to 9	17	37
10 to 12	1	0
13 to 15	0	84
16 to 18	5	23
19 to 21	14	23
22 to 24	0	2
25 to 27	6	7
28 to 30	17	37
31 to 33	2	4
34 to 36	22	20
37 to 39	0	3
40 to 42	0	15
43 to 45	0	12
46 to 48	0	0
49 to 51	0	54
52 to 54	0	34
55 to 57	0	5
58 to 60	0	16
61 to 63	0	46
64 to 66	14	15
67 to 69	0	0
70 to 72	0	47
73 to 75	0	0
76 to 78	0	0
79 to 81	7	11
82 to 84	16	29
85 to 87	21	20
88 to 90	28	25
91 to 93	0	0
94 to 96	6	5
97 to 99	0	0
100 to 102	1	12
103 to 105	0	0
106 to 108	0	0
109 to 111	0	103
112 to 114	7	7
115 to 117	0	0
118 to 120	0	2

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.

SADIE: Yeah. 1tt1Ed goes over to the door and opens it cautiously. It is Eve's friend, SUSIE. SUSIE: Hi, it's me.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 21 are women's.

184 lines from women, 698 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

2 women and 7 men in the cast. 2 women and 6 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 2 of 915. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 190 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 22% of the words (1,640), men 78% (5,970). Women have 21% 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

Two women

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

2 of the 12 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 25% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Michael Walker (man)
Written by: Michael Walker (man)
Produced by: Thomas Bidegain (man), Olivier Glaas (gender not listed)
Shot by: Jim Denault (man)
Edited by: David Leonard (man)
Production design by: Daniel Ouellette (man)
Costumes by: Kathryn Nixon (woman)
Cast by: Kerry Barden (man), Mark Bennett (man), Billy Hopkins (man), Suzanne Smith Crowley (woman)