Fails the Bechdel test

Fracture

Name: Fracture
Released: 2007

2007. Directed by Gregory Hoblit, written by Daniel Pyne and Glenn Gers.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

2 / 3

Fails

Yes 1. At least two women
17 women characters. 10 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
Women do talk to each other.
No 3. About something besides a man
Every conversation between women that our parser found mentions a man.

Second opinion

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

The film

Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife Jennifer and entraps her lover, Lieutenant Robert "Rob" Nunally. He signs a confession. At the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot who's soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it's an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum's weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy's a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all of the objects moving in ways he predicts.

Released: 20 Apr 2007
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Rated: R
IMDb: 7.2 / 10
Metascore: 68 / 100
Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Willy 385 lines, man
Crawford 135 lines, man
Nikki 77 lines, woman
Nunally 51 lines, man
Lobruto 41 lines, man
Judge Robinson 28 lines, woman
Marchand 28 lines, man
Norman 15 lines, man
Jennifer 14 lines, woman
Resident 13 lines, woman

Full cast, 50 people

Anthony Hopkins as Ted Crawford
Ryan Gosling as Willy Beachum
David Strathairn as Joe Lobruto
Rosamund Pike as Nikki Gardner
Embeth Davidtz as Jennifer Crawford
Billy Burke as Rob Nunally
Cliff Curtis as Detective Flores
Fiona Shaw as Judge Robinson
Bob Gunton as Judge Gardner
Josh Stamberg as Norman Foster
Xander Berkeley as Judge Moran
Zoe Kazan as Mona
Judith Scott as Resident
Gary Carlos Cervantes as Ciro
Petrea Burchard as Marion Kang
Garz Chan as Assistant Hotel Manager
Wendy Cutler as Gladys
Larry Sullivan as Lee Gardner
Valerie Dillman as Peg Gardner
Gonzalo Menendez as Uniform Cop
Vivica Genaux as Opera Singer
Cooper Thornton as Public Defender
Lyle Kanouse as Messenger
Sandra Prosper as Karla
Monica Garcia Pérez as Crawford's Secretary
Joe Spano as Judge Pincus
Peter Breitmayer as NTSB Guy
Mirron E. Willis as Moran's Bailiff
David Purdham as Burt Wooton
John Littlefield as Cop
Lou Reyes as SWAT Medic
Rainy Kerwin as Wooton Sims Receptionist
R.J. Chambers as Bailiff
Eugene Collier as Bailiff
Tom Virtue as Attorney Apley
Gunter Simon as Orderly
Frank Torres as Orderly
Payton Koch as Kid
Cooper Koch as Kid
Sophie Hoblit as Kid
Caroline Weinstock as Kid
Alexander Weinstock as Kid
Michael Khmurov as Russian Man
Julia Emelin as Russian Woman
Yorgo Constantine as Public Defender for the Russians
Alla Korot as Russian Translator
Jeff Enden as Detective
Kaily Smith Westbrook as Lobruto's Secretary
Retta as Evidence Room Cop
Kate Clarke as Mrs. Lee Gardner (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 6% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 135

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	2
4 to 6	2	6
7 to 9	0	0
10 to 12	12	12
13 to 15	0	1
16 to 18	0	3
19 to 21	0	36
22 to 24	0	3
25 to 27	8	45
28 to 30	0	12
31 to 33	8	34
34 to 36	15	35
37 to 39	10	70
40 to 42	19	56
43 to 45	0	1
46 to 48	5	4
49 to 51	3	2
52 to 54	2	40
55 to 57	0	22
58 to 60	0	7
61 to 63	8	18
64 to 66	24	27
67 to 69	0	28
70 to 72	4	3
73 to 75	9	20
76 to 78	3	4
79 to 81	5	22
82 to 84	12	18
85 to 87	3	14
88 to 90	0	0
91 to 93	0	1
94 to 96	0	1
97 to 99	0	0
100 to 102	0	1
103 to 105	0	3
106 to 108	0	5
109 to 111	0	0
112 to 114	0	29
115 to 117	0	31
118 to 120	0	32
121 to 123	0	4
124 to 126	0	2
127 to 129	0	5
130 to 132	0	3
133 to 135	0	22

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, 18 are women's.

152 lines from women, 684 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

17 women and 24 men in the cast. 10 women and 8 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 6 of 887. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 163 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 17% of the words (1,499), men 83% (7,364). Women have 18% of the lines, so their lines run shorter 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

Two men

Exhibit E: behind the camera

4 of the 13 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 33% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Gregory Hoblit (man)
Written by: Daniel Pyne (man), Glenn Gers (man)
Produced by: Charles Weinstock (man)
Shot by: Kramer Morgenthau (man)
Edited by: David Rosenbloom (man)
Music by: Jeff Danna (man), Mychael Danna (man)
Production design by: Paul Eads (man)
Costumes by: Elisabetta Beraldo (woman)
Cast by: Deborah Aquila (woman), Jennifer L. Smith (woman), Tricia Wood (woman)