Passes the Bechdel test

Death at a Funeral

Name: Death at a Funeral
Released: 2010

2010. Directed by Neil LaBute, written by Dean Craig.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
8 women characters. 5 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 162.
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

Aaron's father's funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body; a cousin gives her fiancé a Valium from her brother's apartment, not knowing that her brother is dealing drugs--it's LSD and the fiancé arrives at the funeral wildly stoned; Aaron's younger brother Ryan, a successful writer, flies in from New York broke but arrogant; one uncle is angry over his daughter's choice of boyfriend and the other is cranky and coarse. Add an ovulating wife, a jealous ex-boyfriend, and a short stranger who wants a word with Aaron--what could he want? Would another death solve Aaron's problems? And what about the eulogy?

Released: 16 Apr 2010
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Rated: R
IMDb: 5.7 / 10
Metascore: 51 / 100
Awards: 6 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Aaron 212 lines, man
Elaine 123 lines, woman
Norman 103 lines, man
Ryan 102 lines, man
Oscar 66 lines, man
Derek 63 lines, man
Jeff 63 lines, man
Michelle 63 lines, woman
Frank 39 lines, man
Duncan 36 lines, man

Full cast, 21 people

Chris Rock as Aaron
Martin Lawrence as Ryan
Zoe Saldaña as Elaine
Tracy Morgan as Norman
Regina Hall as Michelle
James Marsden as Oscar
Luke Wilson as Derek
Columbus Short as Jeff
Peter Dinklage as Frank
Danny Glover as Uncle Russell
Loretta Devine as Cynthia
Kevin Hart as Brian
Keith David as Reverend Davis
Ron Glass as Duncan
Regine Nehy as Martina
Leslie Rivers as Older Lady
Bronwyn Hardy
Jamison Yang
Betty K. Bynum
Youlanda Davis
Katelyn Statton

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 4 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 162

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 4	0	0
5 to 8	0	0
9 to 12	0	17
13 to 16	10	32
17 to 20	10	15
21 to 24	0	3
25 to 28	13	17
29 to 32	4	33
33 to 36	8	22
37 to 40	9	39
41 to 44	8	23
45 to 48	7	18
49 to 52	14	28
53 to 56	8	28
57 to 60	18	29
61 to 64	7	16
65 to 68	7	8
69 to 72	1	12
73 to 76	1	37
77 to 80	9	10
81 to 84	3	41
85 to 88	5	12
89 to 92	3	38
93 to 96	7	9
97 to 100	1	46
101 to 104	2	8
105 to 108	6	25
109 to 112	8	28
113 to 116	0	8
117 to 120	5	17
121 to 124	7	34
125 to 128	5	6
129 to 132	0	18
133 to 136	3	1
137 to 140	2	9
141 to 144	0	11
145 to 148	2	5
149 to 152	6	5
153 to 156	2	4
157 to 160	12	39
161 to 162	0	3

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.

MICHELLE: Sure. They exit. Michelle crosses to Cynthia. MICHELLE: Hey, are you doing okay? It's going to be alright. CYNTHIA: If you've never given life, child, how can you understand death?

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 22 are women's.

213 lines from women, 754 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

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

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 21 of 976. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 46 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 21% of the words (2,748), men 79% (10,378). Women have 22% of the lines, so their lines run shorter 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

3 of the 13 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 27% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Neil LaBute (man)
Written by: Dean Craig (man)
Produced by: William Horberg (man), Chris Rock (man), Sidney Kimmel (man), Laurence Malkin (man), Share Stallings (woman)
Shot by: Rogier Stoffers (man)
Edited by: Tracey Wadmore-Smith (man)
Music by: Christophe Beck (man)
Production design by: Jon Gary Steele (man)
Costumes by: Maya Lieberman (woman)
Cast by: Victoria Thomas (woman)