Passes the Bechdel test
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
1989. Directed by Rob Hedden, written by Rob Hedden and Victor Miller.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
8 women characters. 4 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 7 scenes out of 205. -
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
A whole high-school senior class is finally graduating, and they're rewarded with a luxury cruise called "Lazarus." At the beginning they are all having fun, including Rennie, who has a serious problem with the water because she almost drowned when she was little. Jason has boarded the ship and starts his killing rampage until only the main characters are left. After that, they decide to look for the killer and kill him. Unfortunately, Jason gets them first. After only a few of them escape and the ship reaches New York, they discover that Jason got there first and is ready to pursue the survivors so he can kill them. Now a young teenage couple must escape or die in the dark waters of New York.
- Released
- 28 Jul 1989
- Genres
- Adventure, Horror, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 4.5 / 10
- Metascore
- 14 / 100
- Awards
- 2 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Mcculloch 90 lines, man
- Sean 81 lines, man
- Rennie 75 lines, woman
- Miss Van Deusen 63 lines, woman
- Tamara 46 lines, woman
- Eva 24 lines, woman
- Jim 24 lines, man
- Wayne 23 lines, man
- Suzy 20 lines, woman
- Julius 16 lines, man
Full cast, 24 people
- Jensen Daggett as Rennie
- Scott Reeves as Sean Robertson
- Barbara Bingham as Colleen Van Deusen
- Peter Mark Richman as Charles McCulloch
- Martin Cummins as Wayne
- Gordon Currie as Miles Wolfe
- Alex Diakun as Deck Hand
- Vincent Craig Dupree as Julius
- Saffron Henderson as J.J.
- Kelly Hu as Eva Watanabe
- Sharlene Martin as Tamara Mason
- Warren Munson as Admiral Robertson
- Kane Hodder as Jason
- Todd Caldecott as Jim
- Tiffany Paulsen as Suzi
- Tim Mirkovich as Young Jason
- Fred Henderson as Chief Engineer
- Sam Sarkar as Gang Banger #1
- Michael Benyaer as Gang Banger #2
- Roger Barnes as Irish Cop
- Amber Pawlick as Young Rennie
- Vince Cupone as Street Urchin
- Peggy Hedden as New York Waitress
- David Longworth as Sanitation Engineer
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 5 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 3% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 205
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 to 10 | 10 | 17 |
| 11 to 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 to 20 | 5 | 3 |
| 21 to 25 | 3 | 4 |
| 26 to 30 | 34 | 16 |
| 31 to 35 | 8 | 25 |
| 36 to 40 | 9 | 16 |
| 41 to 45 | 3 | 0 |
| 46 to 50 | 35 | 10 |
| 51 to 55 | 34 | 7 |
| 56 to 60 | 7 | 7 |
| 61 to 65 | 2 | 4 |
| 66 to 70 | 5 | 14 |
| 71 to 75 | 5 | 20 |
| 76 to 80 | 4 | 21 |
| 81 to 85 | 8 | 4 |
| 86 to 90 | 2 | 0 |
| 91 to 95 | 5 | 14 |
| 96 to 100 | 4 | 8 |
| 101 to 105 | 3 | 5 |
| 106 to 110 | 0 | 1 |
| 111 to 115 | 4 | 5 |
| 116 to 120 | 4 | 7 |
| 121 to 125 | 3 | 2 |
| 126 to 130 | 4 | 11 |
| 131 to 135 | 2 | 1 |
| 136 to 140 | 0 | 3 |
| 141 to 145 | 1 | 4 |
| 146 to 150 | 4 | 2 |
| 151 to 155 | 4 | 26 |
| 156 to 160 | 4 | 16 |
| 161 to 165 | 0 | 0 |
| 166 to 170 | 6 | 11 |
| 171 to 175 | 6 | 5 |
| 176 to 180 | 0 | 2 |
| 181 to 185 | 0 | 0 |
| 186 to 190 | 7 | 5 |
| 191 to 195 | 2 | 7 |
| 196 to 200 | 2 | 2 |
| 201 to 205 | 1 | 1 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
TAMARA: Perfectly. TAMARA: A major prick. EVA: What are you going to do? TAMARA: Improvise, of course.
MISS VAN DEUSEN: What's wrong, Rennie?? RENNIE: I just got a little dizzy. I'm fine.
MISS VAN DEUSEN: Rennie -- I was just on my way over to your room RENNIE: Have you seen my dog anywhere? MISS VAN DEUSEN: No, but I'm sure Toby's fine. The ship's only so big and there's certainly no way off it, is there?
MISS VAN DEUSEN: So, are you having fun yet? RENNIE: Yeah...a lot. MISS VAN DEUSEN: I seem to detect a hint of ingenuousness in your tone. In other words, level with me. RENNIE: There's something I haven't told you...
TAMARA: That was truly excellent. EVA: Yeah. TAMARA: Time to check out the waiters. EVA: I think I'll pass. See you later, okay?
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 44 are women's.
242 lines from women, 309 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
8 women and 16 men in the cast. 4 women and 21 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 4 of 566.
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 39% of the words (1,728), men 61% (2,673). Women have 44% of the lines, so their lines run shorter 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
15
Two men
29
Exhibit F: behind the camera
1 of the 10 people in these jobs is a woman.
Across the whole crew, 23% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Rob Hedden (man)
- Written by
- Rob Hedden (man)
- Produced by
- Randy Cheveldave (man)
- Shot by
- Bryan England (man)
- Edited by
- Steve Mirkovich (man)
- Music by
- Fred Mollin (man)
- Production design by
- David Fischer (man)
- Costumes by
- Carla Hetland (woman)
- Cast by
- David Cohn (gender not listed), Fiona Jackson (gender not listed)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
4 women, 8 men, 2 not listed
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Production
3 women, 1 men, 3 not listed
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Directing
0 women, 5 men, 1 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 2 men, 3 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
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Editing
0 women, 3 men, 1 not listed
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Sound
0 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
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Art
0 women, 2 men, 1 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 21 on average. Men: 34 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Jensen Daggett 20, Kelly Hu 21, Saffron Henderson 23
Men
Martin Cummins 19, Scott Reeves 23, Gordon Currie 23, Vincent Craig Dupree 34, Alex Diakun 43, Peter Mark Richman 62
Exhibit H: the money
It made 2.9 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $5 million
- Box office
- $14.3 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 205 scenes and 566 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
