Fails the Bechdel test
Date Night
2010. Directed by Shawn Levy, written by Josh Klausner.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
2 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
34 women characters. 1 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
Women do talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Every conversation between women that our parser found mentions a man.
Second opinion
Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.
The film
Phil and Claire Foster are a couple who have been married for several years. Their days consists of them taking care of their children and going to work and coming home and going to bed. But they find time to have a date night wherein they go out and spend some time together. When another couple they know announce that they're separating because they're in a rut, Phil feels that he and Claire could be too. So when date night comes Phil decides to do something different. So they go into the city and try to get into a new popular restaurant. But when it's full and still wanting to do this, Phil decides to take the reservation of a couple who doesn't show up. While they're having dinner two men approach them and instructs them to stand up and go with them. They think the men are with the restaurant and want to talk to them about taking someone else's reservation. But it appears the couple whose reservation they took crossed someone and the two men work for this person. The men are after something, but whatever it is they don't have it.
- Released
- 09 Apr 2010
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime, Romance
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 6.3 / 10
- Metascore
- 56 / 100
- Awards
- 4 wins & 8 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Phil 329 lines, man
- Clara 244 lines, woman
- Holbrooke 36 lines, man
- Black Dude 18 lines, man
- Lieutenant Manning 14 lines, man
- Speakerphone 13 lines
- E 10 lines
- Frank 9 lines, man
- Jane 9 lines
- Mayor Diggs 9 lines, man
Full cast, 72 people
- Steve Carell as Phil Foster
- Tina Fey as Claire Foster
- Mark Wahlberg as Holbrooke
- Taraji P. Henson as Detective Arroyo
- Jimmi Simpson as Armstrong
- Common as Collins
- William Fichtner as DA Frank Crenshaw
- Leighton Meester as Katy
- JB Smoove as Cabbie
- Kristen Wiig as Haley Sullivan
- Mark Ruffalo as Brad Sullivan
- James Franco as Taste
- Mila Kunis as Whippit
- Bill Burr as Detective Walsh
- Jonathan Morgan Heit as Oliver Foster
- Savannah Paige Rae as Charlotte Foster
- Nick Kroll as Claw Maitre D'
- Olivia Munn as Claw Hostess
- Gal Gadot as Natanya
- Lauren Weedman as Wendy
- Darren Le Gallo as Teaneck Waiter
- Jaye Razor as Peppermint Hippo Doorman
- Gillian Vigman as House-Hunting Woman
- Chayim Frenkel as House-hunting Man
- Jon Bernthal as Young Man
- Ari Graynor as Young Woman
- will.i.am as Will.I.Am
- Sho Brown as VIP Thug
- Jahnel Curfman as Exotic Dancer #1
- Stella Angelova as Exotic Dancer #2
- Joe Starr as Miletto Thug #1
- John Cenatiempo as Miletto Thug #2
- Katie Gill as Claw Hottie
- Michelle Galdenzi as Claw Hottie
- Stacey Scowley as Book Club Member
- Lourdes Regala as Book Club Member
- Hal Devi as VIP Room Bodyguard
- Dani Playel as VIP Room Dancer #1
- Kat Howland as VIP Room Dancer #2
- Alandrea Martin as VIP Room Dancer #3
- January Adams as Pedestrian (uncredited)
- Michelle Celeste Assil as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
- Jeff Barry as Columbia Student (uncredited)
- Samantha Bee as Woman in Times Square (uncredited)
- Rachel Bernstein as Crenshaw Girl (uncredited)
- David Block as Bar Patron (uncredited)
- Theo Breaux as Nubian Dancer (uncredited)
- Rich Campbell as Pedestrian (uncredited)
- Etalvia Cashin as Model (uncredited)
- Natalie Cohen as Burlesque Dancer (uncredited)
- Peter Conboy as New York City Police Officer (uncredited)
- Tracy Dali as Nubian Dancer (uncredited)
- Tony DeSean as Model (uncredited)
- Evans Forlidas as Man with Blonde (uncredited)
- Jim Garrity as Successful Financier (uncredited)
- Jeff Grossman as Mob Thug (uncredited)
- Chris Haemmerle as Tourist (uncredited)
- Lauren Hayes as Model (uncredited)
- Jason Jones as Man in Times Square (uncredited)
- Keven Kaddi as Bar Patron (uncredited)
- Vivian Khouri as Classy Bar Patron (uncredited)
- Dianne Kwon as Crenshaw Girl (uncredited)
- Ray Liotta as Joe Miletto (uncredited)
- Karina Michel as Model (uncredited)
- Kate Rogal as Jade (uncredited)
- Dylan Saccoccio as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
- John J. Schneider as Police Officer (uncredited)
- Woody Schultz as Jeremy, Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
- Sabella Shake as Crenshaw Girl (uncredited)
- Jordan Stone as Claw Patron (uncredited)
- Nikki Tomlinson as Nubian Dancer (uncredited)
- Joseph Williams as Claw Bartender (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 13% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 76
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 9 | 8 |
| 3 to 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 to 6 | 6 | 11 |
| 7 to 8 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 to 10 | 6 | 0 |
| 11 to 12 | 10 | 8 |
| 13 to 14 | 6 | 11 |
| 15 to 16 | 4 | 5 |
| 17 to 18 | 14 | 18 |
| 19 to 20 | 8 | 10 |
| 21 to 22 | 12 | 23 |
| 23 to 24 | 5 | 18 |
| 25 to 26 | 22 | 48 |
| 27 to 28 | 7 | 9 |
| 29 to 30 | 3 | 1 |
| 31 to 32 | 6 | 8 |
| 33 to 34 | 12 | 28 |
| 35 to 36 | 6 | 16 |
| 37 to 38 | 15 | 28 |
| 39 to 40 | 9 | 14 |
| 41 to 42 | 2 | 5 |
| 43 to 44 | 2 | 3 |
| 45 to 46 | 10 | 8 |
| 47 to 48 | 3 | 9 |
| 49 to 50 | 1 | 5 |
| 51 to 52 | 1 | 2 |
| 53 to 54 | 0 | 7 |
| 55 to 56 | 11 | 25 |
| 57 to 58 | 0 | 4 |
| 59 to 60 | 8 | 12 |
| 61 to 62 | 19 | 21 |
| 63 to 64 | 8 | 13 |
| 65 to 66 | 7 | 7 |
| 67 to 68 | 2 | 11 |
| 69 to 70 | 1 | 2 |
| 71 to 72 | 0 | 1 |
| 73 to 74 | 21 | 38 |
| 75 to 76 | 4 | 8 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 37 are women's.
265 lines from women, 449 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
34 women and 35 men in the cast. 1 women and 4 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 2 of 819.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 16 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 36% of the words (3,554), men 64% (6,450). Women have 37% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
Exhibit D: 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
1
Two men
32
Exhibit E: behind the camera
2 of the 9 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 18% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Shawn Levy (man)
- Written by
- Josh Klausner (man)
- Produced by
- Shawn Levy (man)
- Shot by
- Dean Semler (man)
- Edited by
- Dean Zimmerman (man)
- Music by
- Christophe Beck (man)
- Production design by
- David Gropman (man)
- Costumes by
- Marlene Stewart (woman)
- Cast by
- Donna Isaacson (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
4 women, 44 men, 5 not listed
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Art
4 women, 8 men, 6 not listed
-
Production
5 women, 7 men, 2 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
2 women, 5 men, 2 not listed
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Sound
1 women, 7 men
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Directing
1 women, 4 men, 2 not listed
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Camera
1 women, 4 men
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Editing
0 women, 1 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 34 on average. Men: 42 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Leighton Meester 23, Kristen Wiig 36, Tina Fey 39, Taraji P. Henson 39
Men
Jimmi Simpson 34, Mark Wahlberg 38, Common 38, JB Smoove 44, Steve Carell 47, William Fichtner 53
Exhibit G: the money
It made 2.8 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $55 million
- Box office
- $152 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 76 scenes and 819 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
