Passes the Bechdel test
Fruitvale Station
2013. Directed by Ryan Coogler, written by Ryan Coogler.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
14 women characters. 11 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 4 scenes out of 113. -
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, though someone marked that rating as dubious.
The film
This is the true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: being a better son to his mother, whose birthday falls on New Year's Eve, being a better partner to his girlfriend, who he hasn't been completely honest with as of late, and being a better father to T, their beautiful 4 year old daughter. He starts out well, but as the day goes on, he realizes that change is not going to come easy. He crosses paths with friends, family, and strangers, each exchange showing us that there is much more to Oscar than meets the eye. But it would be his final encounter of the day, with police officers at the Fruitvale BART station that would shake the Bay Area to its very core, and cause the entire nation to be witnesses to the story of Oscar Grant.
- Released
- 26 Jul 2013
- Genres
- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7.5 / 10
- Metascore
- 85 / 100
- Awards
- 36 wins & 58 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Oscar 244 lines, man
- Sophina 87 lines, woman
- Wanda 70 lines, woman
- Tatiana 34 lines, woman
- Caruso 30 lines, man
- Cato 30 lines, man
- Brandon 21 lines, man
- Katie 19 lines, woman
- Peter 14 lines, man
- Marcus 13 lines, man
Full cast, 75 people
- Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant
- Melonie Díaz as Sophina
- Octavia Spencer as Wanda
- Kevin Durand as Officer Caruso
- Chad Michael Murray as Officer Ingram
- Ahna O'Reilly as Katie
- Ariana Neal as Tatiana
- Keenan Coogler as Cato
- Trestin George as Brandon
- Joey Oglesby as Cale
- Michael James as Carlos
- Marjorie Crump-Shears as Grandma Bonnie
- Destiny Ekwueme as Chantay
- Bianca Rodriguez III as Vanessa
- Julian Keyes as Kris
- Kenny Grimm as Jason
- Tommy Wright as Tim
- Jemal McNeil as Cephus
- Steven C. Johnson as Daryl
- Alejandra Nolasco as Officer Salazar
- Alessandro Garcia as Officer Sanchez
- Marvin Greene as Mr. Mason
- Laurel Moglen as Mrs. Mason
- Victor Toman as Emi
- Herman Tsui as Marcus
- Liisa Cohen as Tenisha
- Darren Bridgett as Peter
- Caroline Lesley as Steph
- Lucena Herrera as Rose
- Brian Richardson as Lead Surgeon
- Razon Alicia Tramble as Nurse
- Maya Tapia as Mariana
- Nassir Zughayer as Sammy
- Patrick Sieler as Paramedic #1
- Thomas Cokenias as Corrections Officer #1
- Wanda Johnson as Mrs. Stacy
- Christina Elmore as Ashae
- Tamera Tomakili as Lauren
- Chris Riedell as Joe
- Denzel Worthington as Darius
- Alan C. Foster as Corrections Officer #2
- Saul Ramirez as Corrections Officer #3
- Charmaine Davis as Register Nurse
- Jonez Cain as Danae
- Jasmin Bristow as Karen
- Chris Morocco as Donald
- Robert Ajlouny as Officer Newsom
- Noah Staggs as Officer Davidson
- Kurt Cotton as BART Cop #1
- Nicholas Crispen as BART Cop #2
- Dustin Miller as BART Cop #3
- Sergio Alejandro as BART Cop #4
- William T. Bayley as Male Paramedic
- Jennifer Nicole as Female Paramedic
- Lola Preza as Cale's Girlfriend
- Levi Zavala as Cale's Son
- Jason Garcia as Cale's Friend #1
- William Armando as Cale's Friend #2
- Tristan Gray as Cale's Friend #3
- Ruben Rivera as Cale's Friend #4
- Kassandra Cesar as Eilly
- Israel Cesar as Angelo
- Tatiyana Gomez as Lala
- Noah Zavala as Isaac
- Maleah Nipay-Padilla as Alena
- Nicole Maxali as Surgical Nurse #1
- Jessica Clark as Surgical Nurse #2
- John Burke as Surgeon #1
- Montgomery Paulsen as Surgeon #2
- Matthew Thomas Ward as Surgeon #3
- Spencer Kalin-Mulder as Resident Doctor
- Della Hamlin as Fruitvale Station Agent
- James Mastel as Hayward Station Agent
- Guzman Leonel as Young Teenager #1
- Buddy Rahming as Young Teenager #2
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 7% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 113
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 18 | 16 |
| 4 to 6 | 12 | 7 |
| 7 to 9 | 22 | 35 |
| 10 to 12 | 14 | 24 |
| 13 to 15 | 12 | 18 |
| 16 to 18 | 20 | 39 |
| 19 to 21 | 1 | 4 |
| 22 to 24 | 4 | 17 |
| 25 to 27 | 12 | 4 |
| 28 to 30 | 21 | 13 |
| 31 to 33 | 3 | 3 |
| 34 to 36 | 18 | 15 |
| 37 to 39 | 3 | 7 |
| 40 to 42 | 15 | 16 |
| 43 to 45 | 0 | 10 |
| 46 to 48 | 0 | 1 |
| 49 to 51 | 4 | 13 |
| 52 to 54 | 0 | 5 |
| 55 to 57 | 0 | 0 |
| 58 to 60 | 0 | 0 |
| 61 to 63 | 1 | 3 |
| 64 to 66 | 4 | 39 |
| 67 to 69 | 7 | 22 |
| 70 to 72 | 3 | 8 |
| 73 to 75 | 0 | 13 |
| 76 to 78 | 0 | 6 |
| 79 to 81 | 2 | 43 |
| 82 to 84 | 0 | 8 |
| 85 to 87 | 0 | 1 |
| 88 to 90 | 2 | 6 |
| 91 to 93 | 13 | 1 |
| 94 to 96 | 8 | 0 |
| 97 to 99 | 0 | 4 |
| 100 to 102 | 2 | 1 |
| 103 to 105 | 5 | 4 |
| 106 to 108 | 2 | 3 |
| 109 to 111 | 5 | 0 |
| 112 to 113 | 15 | 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.
TATIANA: I don't want to move to Livermore. SOPHINA: Hella nosy...
TATIANA: Mommy can I have two of the fruit snacks today? SOPHINA: No, T. You can take an extra apple if you want. TATIANA: But mommy I- SOPHINA: Don't argue T.
TATIANA: Bisabuella! MARIANA: Hola Tatiana! SOPHINA: Grandma, can you watch T tonight? We gonna go to Frisco. MARIANA: Ask your sister.
WANDA: Sophina baby, what's going on? SOPHINA: The cops won't let me through, and, and Jason said that Osc... OH MY GOD! OH GOD! IS THAT OSC! NO, NO!
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 38 are women's.
248 lines from women, 409 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
14 women and 13 men in the cast. 11 women and 12 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 2 of 705.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 46 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 40% of the words (2,285), men 60% (3,475). Women have 38% 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
11
Two men
30
Exhibit F: behind the camera
4 of the 9 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 33% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Ryan Coogler (man)
- Written by
- Ryan Coogler (man)
- Produced by
- Nina Yang Bongiovi (woman), Forest Whitaker (man)
- Shot by
- Rachel Morrison (woman)
- Edited by
- Claudia Castello (woman), Michael P. Shawver (man)
- Music by
- Ludwig Göransson (man)
- Production design by
- Hannah Beachler (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Production
7 women, 5 men, 4 not listed
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Sound
0 women, 6 men, 2 not listed
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Camera
1 women, 3 men, 3 not listed
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Art
1 women, 0 men, 4 not listed
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Directing
1 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 0 men, 3 not listed
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Other crew
0 women, 4 men
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Editing
1 women, 2 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 27 on average. Men: 32 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Ariana Neal 9, Ahna O'Reilly 28, Melonie Díaz 29, Octavia Spencer 43
Men
Michael B. Jordan 26, Chad Michael Murray 31, Kevin Durand 39
Exhibit H: the money
It made 19.6 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $900,000
- Box office
- $17.6 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 113 scenes and 705 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
