Passes the Bechdel test

Final Destination

Name: Final Destination
Released: 2000

2000. Directed by James Wong, written by Glen Morgan and James Wong and Jeffrey Reddick.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
9 women characters. 6 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 144.
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

Alex is boarding a plane to France on a school trip, when he suddenly gets a premonition that the plane will explode. Shortly after Alex, a group of students, and his teacher are thrown off the plane, and to their horror, the plane does explode. Alex must now work out Death's plan, as each of the survivors falls victim. Whilst trying to prevent the next death, Alex must also dodge the FBI, who believe that he caused the explosion.

Released: 17 Mar 2000
Genres: Horror, Thriller
Rated: R
IMDb: 6.7 / 10
Metascore: 39 / 100
Awards: 3 wins & 5 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Alex 116 lines, man
Clear 91 lines, woman
Carter 42 lines, man
Billy 25 lines, man
Tod 22 lines, man
Weine 21 lines, man
Ms. Lewton 20 lines, woman
Mr. Bludworth 14 lines, man
Schreck 13 lines, man
John Denver 10 lines

Full cast, 29 people

Devon Sawa as Alex Browning
Ali Larter as Clear Rivers
Kerr Smith as Carter Horton
Kristen Cloke as Valerie Lewton
Daniel Roebuck as Agent Weine
Roger Guenveur Smith as Agent Schreck
Chad Donella as Tod Waggner
Seann William Scott as Billy Hitchcock
Tony Todd as Bludworth
Amanda Detmer as Terry Chaney
Brendan Fehr as George Waggner
Forbes Angus as Larry Murnau
Lisa Marie Caruk as Christa Marsh
Christine Chatelain as Blake Dreyer
Barbara Tyson as Barbara Browning
Robert Wisden as Ken Browning
P. Lynn Johnson as Mrs. Waggner
Larry Gilman as Mr. Waggner
Guy Fauchon as Hare Krishna
Randy Stone as Flight Attendant
Mark Holden as Co-Pilot
Marrett Green as TV News Anchor
Fred Keating as Howard Seigel
John Hainsworth as Minister
Pete Atherton as Student Singer
Nicole Robert as Ticket Clerk
Kristina Matisic as Reporter
Troy Yorke as Lou Gehrig's Man (uncredited)
Alessandro Juliani as Guitar Player in Paris (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 5% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 144

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	2	5
4 to 6	9	20
7 to 9	2	6
10 to 12	9	27
13 to 15	6	16
16 to 18	1	12
19 to 21	3	1
22 to 24	2	24
25 to 27	0	3
28 to 30	0	0
31 to 33	0	0
34 to 36	2	9
37 to 39	19	10
40 to 42	15	34
43 to 45	15	21
46 to 48	4	0
49 to 51	0	7
52 to 54	1	4
55 to 57	1	10
58 to 60	0	0
61 to 63	0	2
64 to 66	6	7
67 to 69	1	5
70 to 72	13	24
73 to 75	3	3
76 to 78	2	4
79 to 81	2	2
82 to 84	1	2
85 to 87	2	2
88 to 90	5	21
91 to 93	0	1
94 to 96	0	0
97 to 99	3	5
100 to 102	0	0
103 to 105	0	0
106 to 108	0	0
109 to 111	0	1
112 to 114	1	0
115 to 117	0	0
118 to 120	0	2
121 to 123	0	0
124 to 126	0	0
127 to 129	0	0
130 to 132	0	0
133 to 135	0	0
136 to 138	0	0
139 to 141	1	11
142 to 144	4	2

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.

BARBARA: Exactly a year... to the minute. CLEAR: We beat it, Alex.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 31 are women's.

135 lines from women, 303 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

9 women and 19 men in the cast. 6 women and 17 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 20 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 34% of the words (1,764), men 66% (3,484). Women have 31% 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

2 of the 15 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 23% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: James Wong (man)
Written by: James Wong (man), Jeffrey Reddick (man), Glen Morgan (man)
Story by: Jeffrey Reddick (man)
Produced by: Warren Zide (man), Craig Perry (man), Glen Morgan (man)
Shot by: Robert McLachlan (man)
Edited by: James Coblentz (man)
Music by: Shirley Walker (woman), Adam Hamilton (gender not listed)
Production design by: John Willett (man)
Costumes by: Jori Woodman (woman)
Cast by: John Papsidera (man)

The crew, department by department

Other crew

5 women, 9 men, 23 not listed
Production

4 women, 8 men, 23 not listed
Sound

4 women, 22 men, 7 not listed
Art

3 women, 7 men, 17 not listed
Camera

0 women, 7 men, 7 not listed
Costume & Make-Up

3 women, 2 men, 6 not listed
Directing

1 women, 4 men, 1 not listed
Editing

0 women, 2 men, 4 not listed

Women
Men
Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 28 on average. Men: 31 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Ali Larter 24, Amanda Detmer 28, Kristen Cloke 31

Men

Devon Sawa 21, Chad Donella 21, Seann William Scott 23, Kerr Smith 28, Daniel Roebuck 37, Roger Guenveur Smith 44, Tony Todd 45

Exhibit H: the money

It made 4.9 times what it cost.

Budget: $23 million
Box office: $113 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 144 scenes and 463 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works

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