Fails the Bechdel test
Fanboys
2009. Directed by Kyle Newman, written by Ernest Cline and Adam F. Goldberg and Dan Pulick.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
1 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
5 women characters. 5 of them speak. -
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
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 0 out of 3.
The film
Star Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) before its release.
- Released
- 13 Feb 2009
- Genres
- Adventure, Comedy, Crime
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 6.5 / 10
- Metascore
- 45 / 100
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Eric 221 lines, man
- Hutch 193 lines, man
- Windows 175 lines, man
- Linus 149 lines, man
- Zoe 57 lines, woman
- Big Chuck 21 lines, man
- Admiral Seasholtz 18 lines, man
- Chaz 16 lines, man
- Roach 13 lines, man
- The Old Man 12 lines, man
Full cast, 36 people
- Sam Huntington as Eric
- Jay Baruchel as Windows
- Dan Fogler as Hutch
- Kristen Bell as Zoe
- Christopher Rodriguez Marquette as Linus
- David Denman as Chaz
- Christopher McDonald as Big Chuck
- Isaac Kappy as Garfunkel
- Seth Rogen as Admiral Seasholtz / Alien / Roach
- Charlie B. Brown as Myron
- Tarek Bishara as The Vulcan / Gruvock (as Thom Bishops)
- Stephen Pina as Simon
- Danny Trejo as The Chief
- Allie Grant as Rogue Leader / Kimmy
- Ethan Suplee as Harry Knowles
- Jaime King as Amber
- Pell James as Crystal
- William Shatner as Himself
- Carrie Fisher as Doctor
- Billy Dee Williams as Judge Reinhold
- Kevin Smith as Guy at gas station
- Jason Mewes as Guy at gas station
- Zak Knutson as Bob the Trucker
- Joe Lo Truglio as Jail Guard
- Chuck Borden as THX Security Guard #1
- Ray Park as THX Security Guard #2
- Will Forte as THX Security Guard #4
- Craig Robinson as THX Security Guard #5
- Clark Sanchez as Bartender
- Lou Taylor Pucci as Boba Fett #1
- Noah Segan as Boba Fett #2
- Stanley Shunkamolah as Thick-Necked Thug
- Hugh Elliot as Ewok
- Danny McBride as Head of Security (uncredited)
- Peter Mayhew as Self (uncredited)
- Armin Shimerman as Anteaus (archive footage) (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 2% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 80
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 to 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 5 to 6 | 4 | 30 |
| 7 to 8 | 3 | 47 |
| 9 to 10 | 0 | 35 |
| 11 to 12 | 0 | 31 |
| 13 to 14 | 0 | 15 |
| 15 to 16 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 to 18 | 3 | 51 |
| 19 to 20 | 0 | 22 |
| 21 to 22 | 0 | 10 |
| 23 to 24 | 0 | 13 |
| 25 to 26 | 0 | 39 |
| 27 to 28 | 0 | 11 |
| 29 to 30 | 0 | 8 |
| 31 to 32 | 0 | 28 |
| 33 to 34 | 0 | 9 |
| 35 to 36 | 0 | 25 |
| 37 to 38 | 0 | 22 |
| 39 to 40 | 5 | 17 |
| 41 to 42 | 2 | 75 |
| 43 to 44 | 0 | 23 |
| 45 to 46 | 8 | 27 |
| 47 to 48 | 9 | 47 |
| 49 to 50 | 1 | 16 |
| 51 to 52 | 13 | 34 |
| 53 to 54 | 0 | 13 |
| 55 to 56 | 13 | 23 |
| 57 to 58 | 2 | 33 |
| 59 to 60 | 7 | 22 |
| 61 to 62 | 1 | 21 |
| 63 to 64 | 0 | 13 |
| 65 to 66 | 1 | 9 |
| 67 to 68 | 0 | 7 |
| 69 to 70 | 3 | 21 |
| 71 to 72 | 4 | 24 |
| 73 to 74 | 1 | 16 |
| 75 to 76 | 1 | 26 |
| 77 to 78 | 0 | 6 |
| 79 to 80 | 0 | 21 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 8 are women's.
81 lines from women, 898 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
5 women and 28 men in the cast. 5 women and 33 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 9 of 1,003.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 249 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 9% of the words (823), men 91% (8,805). Women have 8% of the lines, so their lines run longer than men's.
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
0
Two men
95
Exhibit E: behind the camera
1 of the 10 people in these jobs is a woman.
Across the whole crew, 17% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Kyle Newman (man)
- Written by
- Adam F. Goldberg (man), Ernest Cline (man)
- Produced by
- Dana Brunetti (man), Kevin Spacey (man)
- Shot by
- Lukas Ettlin (man)
- Edited by
- Seth Flaum (man)
- Music by
- Mark Mothersbaugh (man)
- Production design by
- Cory Lorenzen (gender not listed)
- Costumes by
- Johanna Argan (woman)
The crew, department by department
-
Sound
1 women, 5 men
-
Production
0 women, 3 men
-
Art
1 women, 0 men, 1 not listed
-
Camera
0 women, 2 men
-
Directing
0 women, 1 men, 1 not listed
-
Writing
0 women, 2 men
-
Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 0 men
-
Other crew
0 women, 1 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 28 on average. Men: 32 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Kristen Bell 28
Men
Christopher Rodriguez Marquette 24, Sam Huntington 26, Jay Baruchel 26, Seth Rogen 26, Isaac Kappy 31, Dan Fogler 32, David Denman 35, Christopher McDonald 53
Exhibit G: the money
It made 24% of what it cost.
- Budget
- $3.9 million
- Box office
- $948,753
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 80 scenes and 1,003 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
