Passes the Bechdel test

Edge of Tomorrow

Name: Edge of Tomorrow
Released: 2014

2014. Directed by Doug Liman, written by Christopher McQuarrie and Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
12 women characters. 1 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 166.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

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

The film

An alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Major William Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again...and again. But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt). And, as Cage and Vrataski take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy!

Released: 06 Jun 2014
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 7.9 / 10
Metascore: 71 / 100
Awards: 11 wins & 40 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Cage 314 lines, man
Rita 256 lines, woman
Yobo 60 lines, man
Moe 39 lines
Sgt. Farell 35 lines, man
Skinner 35 lines, man
Tub 29 lines, man
Brigadier General 26 lines
Adam 17 lines, man
Hayley 14 lines, woman

Full cast, 43 people

Tom Cruise as Cage
Emily Blunt as Rita
Brendan Gleeson as General Brigham
Bill Paxton as Master Sergeant Farell
Jonas Armstrong as Skinner
Tony Way as Kimmel
Kick Gurry as Griff
Franz Drameh as Ford
Dragomir Mrsic as Kuntz
Charlotte Riley as Nance
Masayoshi Haneda as Takeda
Terence Maynard as Cruel Sergeant
Noah Taylor as Dr. Carter
Lara Pulver as Karen Lord
Madeleine Mantock as Julie
Assly Zandry as Infirmary Nurse
Sebastian Blunt as Young Soldier / Tarmac
Beth Goddard as Secretary - Judith
Ronan Summers as Dog Soldier 1
Aaron Romano as Dog Soldier 2
Usman Akram as Dog Soldier 3
Bentley Kalu as Dog Soldier 4
Mairead McKinley as Bar Maid
Andrew Neil as Old Man
Martin Hyder as Drunk
Tommy Campbell as Drop Ship Pilot
John Dutton as Old Man 2
Harry Landis as Old Man 3
Rachel Handshaw as Military Spokesperson 1
Martin McDougall as Military Spokesperson 2
Anna Botting as Sky News Anchor
Jane Hill as BBC News Anchor
Erin Burnett as CNN News Anchor
Danny Kushmaro as Channel 2 News Anchor
David Kaye as UDF Commercial (voice)
Johnny Otto as Dog Soldier (uncredited)
Stuart Matthews as Soldier (uncredited)
Lamin Tamba as Mercer - Civilian Staff (uncredited)
Philip Harvey as UDF Aide (uncredited)
Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Dr. Whittle (uncredited)
JD Roth-Round as Dog Soldier (uncredited)
Macee Binns as Russian Aide (uncredited)
Chi Lewis-Parry as Marine (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 11% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 166

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 4	1	28
5 to 8	5	41
9 to 12	8	30
13 to 16	0	21
17 to 20	0	25
21 to 24	3	25
25 to 28	8	27
29 to 32	9	12
33 to 36	4	11
37 to 40	10	9
41 to 44	11	12
45 to 48	0	12
49 to 52	3	2
53 to 56	1	11
57 to 60	1	8
61 to 64	8	8
65 to 68	6	2
69 to 72	26	22
73 to 76	3	15
77 to 80	7	9
81 to 84	1	1
85 to 88	8	11
89 to 92	13	6
93 to 96	22	17
97 to 100	26	29
101 to 104	0	8
105 to 108	8	10
109 to 112	11	5
113 to 116	5	11
117 to 120	7	13
121 to 124	3	14
125 to 128	8	6
129 to 132	5	5
133 to 136	5	5
137 to 140	6	11
141 to 144	5	6
145 to 148	1	3
149 to 152	2	1
153 to 156	8	9
157 to 160	2	2
161 to 164	12	3
165 to 166	4	4

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.

HAYLEY: There's no other way. RITA: ... JUST GO NOW --

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 35 are women's.

276 lines from women, 510 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

12 women and 26 men in the cast. 1 women and 10 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 3 of 880. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 94 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 43% of the words (3,255), men 57% (4,274). Women have 35% 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

3 of the 17 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 20% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Doug Liman (man)
Written by: Christopher McQuarrie (man), Jez Butterworth (man), John-Henry Butterworth (man)
From the novel by: Hiroshi Sakurazaka (man)
Produced by: Jason Hoffs (man), Jeffrey Silver (man), Gregory Jacobs (man), Tom Lassally (man), Erwin Stoff (man)
Shot by: Dion Beebe (man)
Edited by: James Herbert (man), Laura Jennings (woman)
Music by: Christophe Beck (man)
Production design by: Oliver Scholl (man)
Costumes by: Kate Hawley (woman)
Cast by: Lucinda Syson (woman)