Passes the Bechdel test

Eagle Eye

Name: Eagle Eye
Released: 2008

2008. Directed by D.J. Caruso, written by John Glenn and Travis Wright and Hillary Seitz.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
24 women characters. 12 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 2 scenes out of 181.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.

The film

Jerry Shaw is an amiable slacker with an over-achieving twin brother. After his twin dies in an accident, strange things happen to Jerry at a dizzying pace: a fortune shows up in his bank account, weapons are delivered to his flat, and a voice on his cell phone tells him the police are on their way. Jerry follows the voice's instructions, and soon he and a woman he's never met are racing through the city, on to a plane, and eventually to the Pentagon, chased by the FBI. She is Rachel Holloman, a single mom; the voice has threatened her son's death if she doesn't cooperate. The voice seems to know everything. Who is behind it, what is being planned, and why Jerry and Rachel?

Released: 26 Sep 2008
Genres: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 6.6 / 10
Metascore: 43 / 100
Awards: 3 wins & 8 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Jerry 224 lines, man
Rachel 147 lines, woman
Morgan 84 lines, man
Latesha 64 lines, woman
Aria 50 lines
Scott 50 lines
Woman 39 lines, woman
Callister 29 lines, man
Agent Grant 20 lines, man
Kyle 20 lines

Full cast, 97 people

Shia LaBeouf as Jerry Shaw
Michelle Monaghan as Rachel Holloman
Rosario Dawson as Zoe Perez
Michael Chiklis as Defense Secretary Callister
Anthony Mackie as William Bowman
Ethan Embry as Toby Grant
Billy Bob Thornton as Thomas Morgan
Anthony Azizi as Ranim Khalid
Cameron Boyce as Sam Holloman
Lynn Cohen as Mrs. Wierzbowski
Bill Smitrovich as Admiral Thompson
Charles Carroll as Mr. Miller
William Sadler as Jerry's Dad
Deborah Strang as Jerry's Mom
Dariush Kashani as Translator
Bob Morrisey as Director of Intelligence
J. Patrick McCormack as Pentagon General Council
Lorenzo Eduardo as Kwame
Madylin Sweeten as Becky
Jorge-Luis Pallo as Intel Officer
James Huang as Intel Officer
Gerald Downey as Console Tech
Tony Flores as Team Leader
Donnie Jeffcoat as FBI Agent
Craig J. Harris as Man on Train
Jimmie L. Akins as Transit Cop on Train
Eric Christian Olsen as Craig
Marc Singer as Explosives Developer
Michael Maize as Master Sergeant
Eiko Nijo as Masako Tour Guide
Peter Gail as PFPA Officer
Brad Grunberg as Circuit City Salesperson
Cylk Cozart as Sectran Courier
Manny Perry as Sectran Courier
James C. Gohrick as Agent in Alley
Josh Todd as Convenience Store Clerk
Colby French as Console Tech
Matt DeCaro as Stranger at Airport
Judith Moreland as Security Attendant at Airport
Rolando Molina as TSA Agent
Michael Kostroff as Jeweler
Nigel Gibbs as Callister Aide
Michael Daniel Cassady as White House Staffer
David Grant Wright as Secret Service Agent #1
Jarod Einsohn as Reaper Control Tech
David Heckel as Squadron Commander
Jamie Martz as Northcom Control Tech
Greg Collins as Two Star General
McKay Stewart as F-16 Pilot
Terry Walters as Woman in Prius
Katija Pevec as Teenage Page
Chase Penny as Capitol Policeman #1
Madison Mason as President
Kevin Quinn as Pentagon Aide
Sebastian Tillinger as Pentagon Agent
Enver Gjokaj as Remote Pilot
Michael Potter as Doorkeeper
Webster Williams as Committee Head
Peggy Roeder as Forensics Agents
Gary Houston as Forensics Agents
Jonathan Chase as Suited Agent
Dean Cudworth as Capitol Policeman #2
Lindsay Corinn Luecht as Girl on Train
Nicol Paone as Rachel's Friend
Brittany Ishibashi as Rachel's Friend
Stacey Scowley as Waitress
Stephen Simon as Secret Service Agent #2
David Arakelyan as Ballochi Kid
Salah Salea as Funeral Chanter
Susan Armon as Woman in Ballochi Village
Fahim Fazli as Al Kohei
Elijah Moreland as Guard at Library of Congress
David Rowden as Sectran Truck Driver
Brenda Goodbeard as Speaker of the House
Caroline A. Jenks as Page
Roger Groh as Executive Aide to Callister
Lesley Stahl as Newscaster
Leyna Nguyen as Newscaster
Ralph Garman as Newscaster
Rick Chambers as Newscaster
Sharon Tay as Newscaster
Kent Shocknek as Newscaster
Brandon Caruso as Boy on Train
Julianne Moore as ARIIA (voice) (uncredited)
Jerry Ferrara as Jerry's Friend #1 (uncredited)
G. Larry Butler as Pentagon General Council (uncredited)
Ali Olomi as Al Kohei - Afghan Soldier (uncredited)
Nick Searcy as David Johnson (uncredited)
Eric Bays as Man at ATM (uncredited)
Eddie Kunz as Catholic School Boy (uncredited)
Angelina Lyubomirova as ATM Client (uncredited)
Jessica Rotter as Business Woman (uncredited)
Sophia Anne Caruso as Sam's School Band (as Sophia Caruso)
Sean Kinney as JTAC Team Leader
Daniel Caruso as Sam's School Band
Leonard Chong as Sam's School Band
Blake Smith as Sam's School Band

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 25% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 181

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 4	0	1
5 to 8	0	4
9 to 12	3	32
13 to 16	2	4
17 to 20	11	12
21 to 24	22	0
25 to 28	9	15
29 to 32	22	45
33 to 36	4	8
37 to 40	1	2
41 to 44	4	7
45 to 48	14	13
49 to 52	9	28
53 to 56	13	31
57 to 60	6	7
61 to 64	22	27
65 to 68	11	21
69 to 72	8	6
73 to 76	13	12
77 to 80	4	5
81 to 84	11	16
85 to 88	4	6
89 to 92	24	8
93 to 96	20	30
97 to 100	6	8
101 to 104	3	17
105 to 108	0	5
109 to 112	4	5
113 to 116	6	10
117 to 120	0	6
121 to 124	0	0
125 to 128	2	8
129 to 132	0	14
133 to 136	0	22
137 to 140	6	0
141 to 144	2	6
145 to 148	0	2
149 to 152	3	0
153 to 156	0	5
157 to 160	4	2
161 to 164	2	3
165 to 168	3	2
169 to 172	3	1
173 to 176	3	3
177 to 180	12	11
181 to 181	0	0

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.

RACHEL: -- absolutely not -- I turned it off, came over here, checked messages, put the leftovers in the-- KYLE RACHEL: --knocked over the phone-- --right, knocked over the phone, put it back, put the food in the fridge-- She opens the fridge: HER KEYS sit ato…

ARIA OVER SPEAKER: Hello, Scott. How may I assist you? LATESHA: It talks? ARIA OVER SPEAKER: I'm fluent in 6,800 languages, 41,000 dialects, and 750 extinct tongues.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 39 are women's.

296 lines from women, 470 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

24 women and 64 men in the cast. 12 women and 45 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 47 of 1,016. 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 35% of the words (4,731), men 65% (8,881). Women have 39% 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

4 of the 16 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 24% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: D.J. Caruso (man)
Written by: John Glenn (man), Travis Wright (man), Dan McDermott (man), Hillary Seitz (woman)
Story by: Dan McDermott (man)
Produced by: Patrick Crowley (man), Alex Kurtzman (man), Roberto Orci (man)
Shot by: Dariusz Wolski (man)
Edited by: Jim Page (man)
Music by: Brian Tyler (man)
Production design by: Thomas E. Sanders (man)
Costumes by: Marie-Sylvie Deveau (woman)
Cast by: Jennifer L. Smith (woman), Tricia Wood (woman)