Passes the Bechdel test

Death at a Funeral

Name: Death at a Funeral
Released: 2007

2007. Directed by Frank Oz, written by Dean Craig.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
5 women characters. 3 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 2 scenes out of 134.
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

Daniel is a decent young man, married to Jane, still living at his father's home. When his father dies, it is up to him to organize his funeral. On this painful morning, the suitable grave expression on his face, Daniel is ready to welcome his father's friends and relatives. But preserving the dignity inherent in such circumstances will be difficult, particularly with an undertaker who botches his work, the return from the USA of his famous but selfish brother, his cousin's fiancé who has accidentally ingested drugs, the presence of a moron who takes advantage of the sad event to win back the heart (or rather the body) of a woman who is about to marry another, and a handicapped old uncle who is also the most unbearable pain in the neck. To cap it all, Daniel notices the presence among the mourners of a mysterious dwarf nobody else seems to know.

Released: 07 Sep 2007
Genres: Comedy
Rated: R
IMDb: 7.3 / 10
Metascore: 67 / 100
Awards: 3 wins & 2 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Daniel 207 lines, man
Howard 122 lines, man
Robert 120 lines, man
Martha 99 lines, woman
Troy 65 lines, man
Justin 61 lines, man
Simon 53 lines, man
Jane 44 lines, woman
Peter 39 lines, man
Victor 34 lines, man

Full cast, 19 people

Matthew Macfadyen as Daniel
Peter Dinklage as Peter
Ewen Bremner as Justin
Keeley Hawes as Jane
Andy Nyman as Howard
Daisy Donovan as Martha
Alan Tudyk as Simon
Jane Asher as Sandra
Kris Marshall as Troy
Rupert Graves as Robert
Peter Vaughan as Uncle Alfie
Thomas Wheatley as The Reverend
Peter Egan as Victor
Brendan O'Hea as Undertaker
Jeremy Booth as Mourner
Angela Curran as Sandra's Friend
Gareth Milne as Edward
Paul Buchanan as Pall Bearer (uncredited)
Kelly Eastwood as Katie (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 1% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 134

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	7
4 to 6	9	7
7 to 9	9	20
10 to 12	2	15
13 to 15	4	8
16 to 18	6	9
19 to 21	6	32
22 to 24	2	28
25 to 27	4	33
28 to 30	13	18
31 to 33	5	22
34 to 36	5	11
37 to 39	10	17
40 to 42	8	33
43 to 45	7	20
46 to 48	7	15
49 to 51	1	3
52 to 54	0	19
55 to 57	5	21
58 to 60	0	31
61 to 63	0	41
64 to 66	11	29
67 to 69	2	9
70 to 72	6	38
73 to 75	0	50
76 to 78	2	2
79 to 81	1	13
82 to 84	3	20
85 to 87	0	6
88 to 90	4	13
91 to 93	0	5
94 to 96	0	12
97 to 99	1	35
100 to 102	6	6
103 to 105	4	2
106 to 108	0	3
109 to 111	0	14
112 to 114	0	2
115 to 117	3	6
118 to 120	0	4
121 to 123	3	10
124 to 126	3	9
127 to 129	3	7
130 to 132	3	10
133 to 134	4	44

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scenes

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

JANE: Hi Sandra. How are you feeling? SANDRA: Don't put your hand there dear, you'll leave smudge marks.

JANE: I mean, do you have any idea what it's like to live with your mother in law ... picking at everything, making comments about your lifestyle,… MARTHA: So, what are you gonna do? JANE: I just don't know.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 18 are women's.

162 lines from women, 759 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

5 women and 12 men in the cast. 3 women and 13 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 10 of 930. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 103 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 18% of the words (1,682), men 82% (7,812).

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

4 of the 13 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 33% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Frank Oz (man)
Written by: Dean Craig (man)
Produced by: Share Stallings (woman), Laurence Malkin (man), Diana Phillips (woman), Andreas Grosch (man), Sidney Kimmel (man)
Shot by: Oliver Curtis (man)
Edited by: Beverley Mills (gender not listed)
Music by: Murray Gold (man)
Production design by: Michael Howells (man)
Costumes by: Natalie Ward (woman)
Cast by: Gail Stevens (woman)