Fails the Bechdel test

Entrapment

Name: Entrapment
Released: 1999

1999. Directed by Jon Amiel, written by Ron Bass and William Broyles Jr. and Michael Hertzberg.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

0 / 3

Fails

No 1. At least two women
Fewer than two women characters.
No 2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other.
No 3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.

Second opinion

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

The film

Following the theft of a highly-secured piece of artwork, an agent convinces her insurance agency employers to allow her to wriggle into the company of an aging but active master thief. Connery's burglar takes her on suspiciously and demands rigorous training before their first job together, stealing a highly-valued mask from a chichi party. Their deepening attraction and distrust could tear apart their partnership, but the promise of a bigger prize (some eight billion odd dollars) by Zeta-Jones keeps the game interesting. Only, who's playing with whom?

Released: 30 Apr 1999
Genres: Action, Crime, Romance
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 6.3 / 10
Metascore: 54 / 100
Awards: 4 wins & 6 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Mac 444 lines, man
Gin 365 lines, woman
Cruz 27 lines, man
Carlsby 14 lines
Qiu 14 lines, man
Steward 7 lines, man
Okati 6 lines
Voice 6 lines
Hongwei 2 lines
Salesman 2 lines, man

Full cast, 21 people

Catherine Zeta-Jones as Virginia 'Gin' Baker
Sean Connery as Robert 'Mac' MacDougal
Will Patton as Hector Cruz
Maury Chaykin as Conrad Greene
Ving Rhames as Aaron Thibadeaux
Kevin McNally as Haas
Terry O'Neill as Quinn
Madhav Sharma as Security Chief
David Yip as Chief of Police
Tim Potter as Millennium Man
Eric Meyers as Waverly Technician
Aaron Swartz as Cruz's Man
William Marsh as Computer Technician
Tony Xu as Banker
Rolf Saxon as ICB Director
Tom Clarke Hill as ICB Operator
Stuart Yung Sai-kit as Doctor
Ravin J. Ganatra as 1st Security Guard
Rhydian Jai-Persad as 2nd Security Guard
Hari Dhillon as 3rd Security Guard
David Howard as ICB Technician

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 2 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 87

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 2	0	0
3 to 4	0	0
5 to 6	29	21
7 to 8	20	17
9 to 10	8	20
11 to 12	0	0
13 to 14	0	0
15 to 16	0	0
17 to 18	0	1
19 to 20	16	20
21 to 22	21	25
23 to 24	22	24
25 to 26	18	38
27 to 28	13	12
29 to 30	0	1
31 to 32	1	3
33 to 34	2	5
35 to 36	3	3
37 to 38	0	0
39 to 40	2	0
41 to 42	8	10
43 to 44	0	0
45 to 46	18	26
47 to 48	29	39
49 to 50	5	10
51 to 52	23	22
53 to 54	23	25
55 to 56	11	8
57 to 58	3	3
59 to 60	0	0
61 to 62	2	7
63 to 64	0	0
65 to 66	4	2
67 to 68	0	0
69 to 70	1	0
71 to 72	1	0
73 to 74	8	4
75 to 76	0	3
77 to 78	0	1
79 to 80	25	42
81 to 82	1	2
83 to 84	1	9
85 to 86	25	46
87 to 87	23	49

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 42 are women's.

366 lines from women, 498 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

1 women and 19 men in the cast. 1 women and 3 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 2 of 903. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 15 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 42% of the words (3,095), men 58% (4,248).

Exhibit D: 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 E: behind the camera

5 of the 16 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 22% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Jon Amiel (man)
Written by: William Broyles Jr. (man), Ronald Bass (man)
Story by: Ronald Bass (man), Michael Hertzberg (man)
Produced by: Rhonda Tollefson (woman), Michael Hertzberg (man), Sean Connery (man)
Shot by: Phil Meheux (man)
Edited by: Terry Rawlings (man)
Music by: Christopher Young (man)
Production design by: Norman Garwood (man)
Costumes by: Penny Rose (woman)
Cast by: Michelle Guish (woman), Donna Isaacson (woman), Kim Miscia (woman)