Passes the Bechdel test
Fast Color
2019. Directed by Julia Hart, written by Julia Hart and Jordan Horowitz.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
5 women characters. 3 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 31 scenes out of 197. -
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
After years in hiding, a woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.
- Released
- 19 Apr 2019
- Genres
- Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 6.1 / 10
- Metascore
- 64 / 100
- Awards
- 1 win & 7 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Ruth 216 lines, woman
- Bo 187 lines, woman
- Lila 91 lines, woman
- Monroe 56 lines
- Bill 39 lines, man
- Michelle 17 lines, woman
- Tired Woman 15 lines, woman
- Kid 7 lines
- Sheila 7 lines
- Man 6 lines, man
Full cast, 17 people
- Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ruth
- Saniyya Sidney as Lila
- Lorraine Toussaint as Bo
- David Strathairn as Ellis
- Christopher Denham as Bill
- Ryan Begay as First Fireman
- Matthew Van Wettering as Motorcycle Cop
- Jermaine Washington as Second Fireman
- Michael E. Stogner as Townsman
- Richard L. Olsen as The Older Man
- Levi Dylan as Kid
- Tasos Hernandez as Young Male Cop
- Sylvie Grontis Hagan as Waitress Featured
- Monique Straw as Shelia
- Jason E. Hill as Thick Guy
- Aliza Halm as Young Ruth
- Hannah Kauffmann as Tired Woman
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 5 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 12% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 197
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 to 10 | 20 | 0 |
| 11 to 15 | 2 | 0 |
| 16 to 20 | 2 | 5 |
| 21 to 25 | 8 | 11 |
| 26 to 30 | 10 | 21 |
| 31 to 35 | 3 | 0 |
| 36 to 40 | 0 | 3 |
| 41 to 45 | 24 | 0 |
| 46 to 50 | 8 | 2 |
| 51 to 55 | 20 | 0 |
| 56 to 60 | 33 | 0 |
| 61 to 65 | 20 | 0 |
| 66 to 70 | 5 | 0 |
| 71 to 75 | 16 | 0 |
| 76 to 80 | 7 | 0 |
| 81 to 85 | 38 | 0 |
| 86 to 90 | 4 | 0 |
| 91 to 95 | 28 | 0 |
| 96 to 100 | 46 | 0 |
| 101 to 105 | 14 | 0 |
| 106 to 110 | 12 | 0 |
| 111 to 115 | 1 | 1 |
| 116 to 120 | 6 | 7 |
| 121 to 125 | 43 | 0 |
| 126 to 130 | 42 | 0 |
| 131 to 135 | 66 | 0 |
| 136 to 140 | 6 | 0 |
| 141 to 145 | 1 | 0 |
| 146 to 150 | 0 | 0 |
| 151 to 155 | 0 | 0 |
| 156 to 160 | 0 | 0 |
| 161 to 165 | 0 | 0 |
| 166 to 170 | 0 | 0 |
| 171 to 175 | 0 | 0 |
| 176 to 180 | 0 | 0 |
| 181 to 185 | 2 | 0 |
| 186 to 190 | 25 | 0 |
| 191 to 195 | 19 | 6 |
| 196 to 197 | 2 | 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.
RUTH: Just me. TIRED WOMAN: Nights? RUTH: One. TIRED WOMAN: $35 for the room. Water?
TIRED WOMAN: $72 with tax. ANGELA: I wanna play!
TIRED WOMAN: I know. But what did I tell you? Angela... will... ANGELA: ...Wait.
RUTH: It’s okay. TIRED WOMAN: Thank you... thanks.
RUTH: Take your daughter and get under the front desk. Stay away from windows. And cover her head. TIRED WOMAN: ....Hello? Hello? Are you --
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 90 are women's.
533 lines from women, 56 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
5 women and 8 men in the cast. 3 women and 5 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
A woman speaks the first line.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 13 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 88% of the words (4,180), men 12% (594). Women have 90% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
Exhibit E: the test the other way
Run the other way, for men, the film scores 1 out of 3.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
42
Two men
0
Exhibit F: behind the camera
4 of the 12 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 41% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Julia Hart (woman)
- Written by
- Julia Hart (woman), Jordan Horowitz (man)
- Produced by
- Pete Shilaimon (man), Jordan Horowitz (man), Mickey Liddell (man)
- Shot by
- Michael Fimognari (man)
- Edited by
- Martin Pensa (man)
- Music by
- Rob Simonsen (man)
- Production design by
- Gae S. Buckley (woman)
- Costumes by
- Elizabeth Warn (woman)
- Cast by
- Matthew Lessall (man)
The crew, department by department
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Production
2 women, 5 men
-
Costume & Make-Up
3 women, 0 men, 2 not listed
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Sound
0 women, 4 men
-
Other crew
1 women, 0 men, 2 not listed
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Visual Effects
0 women, 1 men, 2 not listed
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Writing
1 women, 1 men
-
Art
1 women, 0 men
-
Camera
0 women, 1 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 35 on average. Men: 52 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Saniyya Sidney 12, Gugu Mbatha-Raw 35, Lorraine Toussaint 58
Men
Christopher Denham 34, David Strathairn 70
Exhibit H: the money
What it cost and made, where TMDB lists it.
- Budget
- Not listed
- Box office
- $76,916
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 197 scenes and 666 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
