Passes the Bechdel test

Dirty Girl

Name: Dirty Girl
Released: 2011

2011. Directed by Abe Sylvia, written by Abe Sylvia.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
6 women characters. 8 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 7 scenes out of 85.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.

The film

A comedic story of the search for identity and the redemptive power of unexpected friendship. Danielle is the dirty girl of Norman High School. When Danielle's misbehavior gets her banished to special ed, she teams up with an innocent closet-case and together they head out on a road trip to discover each other and themselves through a funny and serendipitous friendship.

Released: 07 Jul 2011
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Rated: R
IMDb: 6.4 / 10
Metascore: 37 / 100
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Danielle 346 lines, woman
Clarke 197 lines, man
Sue-Ann 59 lines, woman
Peggy 43 lines, woman
Joseph 42 lines, man
Ray 37 lines, man
Dannybriggs 34 lines
Joel 20 lines, man
Principal Mulray 16 lines, man
Very Thin Partner 16 lines, man

Full cast, 19 people

Juno Temple as Danielle
Jeremy Dozier as Clarke
Milla Jovovich as Sue-Ann
Mary Steenburgen as Peggy
Dwight Yoakam as Joseph
William H. Macy as Ray
Nicholas D'Agosto as Joel
Elsie Fisher as Tiffany
Tim McGraw as Danny
Maeve Quinlan as Janet
Jonathan Slavin as Mr. Potter
Zach Lasry as Brad
Nate Hartley as Charlie
Pat Healy as Billy
Jack Kehler as Dr. Shelby
Brent Briscoe as Officer Perry
Gary Grubbs as Principal Mulray
Brian Baumgartner as Concierge (uncredited)
Natalie Amenula as Benita

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 12% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 85

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 2	1	6
3 to 4	12	15
5 to 6	15	5
7 to 8	9	8
9 to 10	3	1
11 to 12	6	16
13 to 14	6	1
15 to 16	17	3
17 to 18	11	12
19 to 20	5	2
21 to 22	48	20
23 to 24	3	2
25 to 26	6	6
27 to 28	23	22
29 to 30	6	7
31 to 32	22	13
33 to 34	6	17
35 to 36	9	7
37 to 38	12	15
39 to 40	10	19
41 to 42	9	7
43 to 44	10	13
45 to 46	14	14
47 to 48	12	8
49 to 50	10	22
51 to 52	14	9
53 to 54	6	9
55 to 56	5	9
57 to 58	28	26
59 to 60	10	5
61 to 62	6	8
63 to 64	10	5
65 to 66	6	4
67 to 68	14	7
69 to 70	4	13
71 to 72	4	0
73 to 74	0	0
75 to 76	57	0
77 to 78	2	0
79 to 80	21	0
81 to 82	4	0
83 to 84	5	6
85 to 85	6	6

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.

SUE-ANN: Your principal called me today. I am very disappointed in you. Danielle slams her bedroom door. DANIELLE: Hey, is this Patrick? on the other end we hear garbled Spanish. DANIELLE: Sorry, wrong number. Undaunted, she dials another ... DANIELLE: I'm looking for Wes.

SUE-ANN: Baby, we saved you some. It's on the stove. DANIELLE: No offense, but I'm coming down with something. SUE-ANN: A cold? DANIELLE: Bulimia;

DANIELLE: Mindy plays Barbie's on the floor. She holds up a doll. MINDY: You can be Skipper! DANIELLE: Get out of my room. MINDY: It's my room, too. Sue-ann appears behind Danielle in the doorway.

DANIELLE: Thank you. SUE-ANN: Ray?

SUE-ANN: we made it in. Just checking on you. Everything going okay? DANIELLE: Fine.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 57 are women's.

487 lines from women, 368 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

6 women and 11 men in the cast. 8 women and 8 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 8 of 974. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 18 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 59% of the words (5,567), men 41% (3,940). Women have 57% 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

4 of the 12 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 32% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Abe Sylvia (man)
Written by: Abe Sylvia (man)
Produced by: Rob Paris (man), Charles Pugliese (man), Rachel Cohen (woman), Jana Edelbaum (woman)
Shot by: Steve Gainer (man)
Edited by: Jonathan Lucas (man)
Music by: Jeff Toyne (man)
Production design by: Alan E. Muraoka (man)
Costumes by: Mary Claire Hannan (woman)
Cast by: Eyde Belasco (woman)