Passes the Bechdel test
Doctor Sleep
2019. Directed by Mike Flanagan, written by Mike Flanagan and Stephen King.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
21 women characters. 12 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 15 scenes out of 192. -
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
Years after the traumatizing events at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance is now an alcoholic struggling to find a job. He moves to a small town in New Hampshire and becomes "Doctor Sleep". He then meets Abra Stone, a teenager with the brightest shine he's ever seen. When he learns that a cult of evil beings called The True Knot are chasing her with the intent to eat her shine, he does everything in his power to protect her...including returning to The Overlook.
- Released
- 08 Nov 2019
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7.3 / 10
- Metascore
- 59 / 100
- Awards
- 9 wins & 37 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Dan 251 lines, man
- Abra 166 lines, woman
- Rose 147 lines, woman
- Crow 74 lines, man
- Andi 51 lines, woman
- Billy 48 lines, man
- Dick 29 lines, man
- Lucy 28 lines, woman
- David 27 lines, man
- Jack 26 lines, man
Full cast, 57 people
- Ewan McGregor as Danny Torrance
- Rebecca Ferguson as Rose the Hat
- Kyliegh Curran as Abra Stone
- Cliff Curtis as Billy Freeman
- Zahn McClarnon as Crow Daddy
- Emily Alyn Lind as Snakebite Andi
- Selena Anduze as Apron Annie
- Robert Longstreet as Barry the Chunk
- Carel Struycken as Grampa Flick
- Katie Parker as Silent Sarey
- Jamie Flanagan as Diesel Doug
- Met Clark as Short Eddie
- Zackary Momoh as David Stone
- Jocelin Donahue as Lucy Stone
- Dakota Hickman as Young Abra
- Carl Lumbly as Dick Halloran
- Henry Thomas as The Bartender
- Bruce Greenwood as Dr. John Dalton
- Sallye Hooks as Mrs. Massey
- Alex Essoe as Wendy Torrance
- Roger Dale Floyd as Young Danny
- George Mengert as Charlie
- Jacob Tremblay as Bradley Trevor
- Chelsea Talmadge as Deenie
- Violet McGraw as Violet
- Bethany Anne Lind as Violet's Mother
- Nicholas Pryor as Eddie
- Deadra Moore as Mrs. Robertson
- Jason Davis as Businessman
- Alyssa Gonzalez as Supermarket Clerk
- Shane Brady as Magician
- Danny Lloyd as Baseball Spectator
- Michael Monks as Delbert Grady
- Hugh Maguire as Horace Derwent
- Sadie Heim as Grady Twin
- Kk Heim as Grady Twin
- Mistie Gibby as Bobbie
- Callie McClincy as Library Kid
- Logan Medina as Library Kid
- Johnnie Gordon as Library Kid #3
- Molly C. Quinn as Mrs. Grady
- Evan Dumouchel as Victor T. Boorman
- MacLeod Andrews as Roger Macassi
- Fedor Steer as Vito the Chopper
- Charles Green as U.S. Senator
- Marc Farley as James Parris
- Juan Carlos Romero Perez as Baseball Coach
- Sarah Morrison as Girl
- Juan Gaspard as Bar Patron (uncredited)
- Esteban Cueto as Large Man (uncredited)
- Marc Demeter as Construction Worker (uncredited)
- J.T. Blair as Middle School Student (uncredited)
- Thomas Downing as Bar Patron (uncredited)
- Scott Lane as Dirty Biker (uncredited)
- Jeremy Connell as Pedestrian (uncredited)
- Kaitlyn McCormick as Twins (uncredited)
- Josh Turner as Dirty Biker (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 4 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 192
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 24 | 0 |
| 5 to 8 | 2 | 0 |
| 9 to 12 | 4 | 23 |
| 13 to 16 | 1 | 3 |
| 17 to 20 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 to 24 | 5 | 10 |
| 25 to 28 | 14 | 8 |
| 29 to 32 | 4 | 3 |
| 33 to 36 | 9 | 6 |
| 37 to 40 | 26 | 22 |
| 41 to 44 | 11 | 11 |
| 45 to 48 | 17 | 32 |
| 49 to 52 | 0 | 11 |
| 53 to 56 | 0 | 0 |
| 57 to 60 | 2 | 18 |
| 61 to 64 | 9 | 13 |
| 65 to 68 | 9 | 10 |
| 69 to 72 | 4 | 2 |
| 73 to 76 | 2 | 3 |
| 77 to 80 | 17 | 6 |
| 81 to 84 | 6 | 5 |
| 85 to 88 | 1 | 0 |
| 89 to 92 | 2 | 0 |
| 93 to 96 | 13 | 16 |
| 97 to 100 | 3 | 3 |
| 101 to 104 | 24 | 43 |
| 105 to 108 | 20 | 0 |
| 109 to 112 | 12 | 9 |
| 113 to 116 | 10 | 11 |
| 117 to 120 | 8 | 7 |
| 121 to 124 | 16 | 21 |
| 125 to 128 | 7 | 51 |
| 129 to 132 | 7 | 17 |
| 133 to 136 | 5 | 6 |
| 137 to 140 | 12 | 8 |
| 141 to 144 | 15 | 7 |
| 145 to 148 | 2 | 8 |
| 149 to 152 | 7 | 16 |
| 153 to 156 | 11 | 7 |
| 157 to 160 | 12 | 1 |
| 161 to 164 | 13 | 10 |
| 165 to 168 | 9 | 3 |
| 169 to 172 | 2 | 6 |
| 173 to 176 | 0 | 41 |
| 177 to 180 | 5 | 16 |
| 181 to 184 | 26 | 14 |
| 185 to 188 | 12 | 14 |
| 189 to 192 | 13 | 5 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
LUCY: Time for bed, Abra. YOUNG ABRA: A little more??
YOUNG ABRA: Abba’s five! Happy birthday Abba! LUCY: Not just yet. Goodnight sweetie.
ANDI: Don’t you want to watch the movie? ROSE: I don’t see what the fuss is about. Chat room romance. A little gross, but not interesting.
ANDI: Aren’t you tired? Sleep. ROSE: Okay.
ANDI: You wanna leave me alone. ROSE: Well hi there. ANDI: You want to let me go. ROSE: Oh no, sweetie. No I don’t.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 45 are women's.
434 lines from women, 527 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
21 women and 34 men in the cast. 12 women and 16 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 2 of 1,000.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 55 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 41% of the words (4,271), men 59% (6,189). Women have 45% 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
28
Two men
36
Exhibit F: behind the camera
2 of the 13 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 26% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Mike Flanagan (man)
- Written by
- Mike Flanagan (man)
- From the novel by
- Stephen King (man)
- Produced by
- Trevor Macy (man), Jon Berg (man)
- Shot by
- Michael Fimognari (man)
- Edited by
- Mike Flanagan (man)
- Music by
- Andrew Grush (man), Taylor Stewart (man)
- Production design by
- Maher Ahmad (man)
- Costumes by
- Terry Anderson (gender not listed)
- Cast by
- Anne McCarthy (woman), Kellie Roy (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Costume & Make-Up
4 women, 2 men, 6 not listed
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Production
2 women, 8 men, 2 not listed
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Art
0 women, 5 men, 3 not listed
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Other crew
1 women, 3 men, 2 not listed
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Directing
1 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
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Visual Effects
1 women, 2 men, 1 not listed
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Sound
0 women, 2 men, 1 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 25 on average. Men: 53 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Kyliegh Curran 13, Emily Alyn Lind 17, Katie Parker 33, Rebecca Ferguson 36
Men
Robert Longstreet 44, Ewan McGregor 48, Cliff Curtis 51, Zahn McClarnon 53, Carel Struycken 71
Exhibit H: the money
It made 1.6 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $45 million
- Box office
- $72.4 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 192 scenes and 1,000 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
