Passes the Bechdel test

Game Night

Name: Game Night
Released: 2018

2018. Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, written by Mark Perez.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
17 women characters. 10 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 5 scenes out of 75.
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

Married competitive gamer couple Max and Annie are trying to have a child, but their attempts are unsuccessful due to Max's stress surrounding his feelings of inadequacy when compared to his successful, attractive brother Brooks. During Max and Annie's routine weekend game night with their friends Ryan, and married couple Kevin and Michelle, Brooks shows up Max by arriving in a Corvette Stingray (Max's dream car) and sharing an embarrassing childhood story about Max. Brooks offers to host the next game night at a house he's renting while he's in town. Meanwhile, Max and Annie are trying to keep their game nights secret from their neighbor Gary, an awkward police officer after his divorce from their friend Debbie..

Released: 23 Feb 2018
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Rated: R
IMDb: 6.9 / 10
Metascore: 66 / 100
Awards: 4 wins & 22 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Max 299 lines, man
Annie 207 lines, woman
Ryan 120 lines, man
Brooks 115 lines, man
Kevin 84 lines, man
Michelle 81 lines, woman
Gary 58 lines, man
Jillian 52 lines
The Bulgarian 19 lines, man
Madison 13 lines, woman

Full cast, 38 people

Jason Bateman as Max
Rachel McAdams as Annie
Kyle Chandler as Brooks
Sharon Horgan as Sarah
Billy Magnussen as Ryan
Lamorne Morris as Kevin
Kylie Bunbury as Michelle
Jesse Plemons as Gary
Michael C. Hall as The Bulgarian
Danny Huston as Donald Anderton
Chelsea Peretti as Glenda
Camille Chen as Dr. Chin
Zerrick Williams as Val
Joshua Mikel as Colin
R.F. Daley as Tats
John Francis Daley as Carter
Michael Cyril Creighton as Bill
Brooke Jaye Taylor as Linda
Jonathan Goldstein as Dan
Charlotte Haynes Hazzard as Nurse
Chad Lail as Bulgarian Goon
Natasha Hall as Madison
Loren Schaffer as Ryan's Date
Kabby Borders as Ryan's Date
Kelly Johns as Ryan's Date
Steve Witting as Clown
Andrew Benator as Clown
Malcolm X. Hughes as Not Denzel
Jessica Lee as Debbie
Jeffrey Wright as FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited)
Curtis Lyons as Logan (uncredited)
Robin Dyke as Wasp (uncredited)
Persephonie Rose as Club Girl (uncredited)
Rachel Tracy as Proposal Night Guest (uncredited)
Grace Wan as Party Guest (uncredited)
Marvin E. West as Wall Street Guy (uncredited)
Michael David Yuhl as Anderton Party Guest (uncredited)
Olivia as Bastian

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 2 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 75

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 2	4	6
3 to 4	13	9
5 to 6	22	25
7 to 8	31	59
9 to 10	22	66
11 to 12	9	28
13 to 14	8	36
15 to 16	0	3
17 to 18	8	32
19 to 20	11	22
21 to 22	2	7
23 to 24	6	7
25 to 26	0	3
27 to 28	3	5
29 to 30	26	26
31 to 32	0	15
33 to 34	13	28
35 to 36	7	7
37 to 38	8	22
39 to 40	12	25
41 to 42	33	14
43 to 44	10	25
45 to 46	1	5
47 to 48	2	18
49 to 50	10	29
51 to 52	3	14
53 to 54	13	13
55 to 56	0	18
57 to 58	5	15
59 to 60	18	112
61 to 62	4	11
63 to 64	0	0
65 to 66	0	0
67 to 68	8	6
69 to 70	2	7
71 to 72	1	0
73 to 74	4	16
75 to 75	5	18

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.

ANNIE: Can we help you? MADISON: I’m okay.

ANNIE: Jesus. It’s like “Night of the Living Dead” in here. MICHELLE: I am not dressed for this nonsense.

ANNIE: Yeah, you brought her last week. You work at Forever 21, right? MADISON: I work at Sephora. ANNIE: I’m confused.

MADISON: On the right or the left. I don’t want to go in the wrong room. ANNIE: It’ll be the one with the toilet. MADISON: ‘Kay. MICHELLE: Where’d you meet her? At a TED talk?

MICHELLE: I’m not nervous. Who’s turn is it? ANNIE: I think it’s Max’s turn. It’s somebody’s turn. Somebody should go now.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 30 are women's.

324 lines from women, 752 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

17 women and 21 men in the cast. 10 women and 12 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 36 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 26% of the words (2,476), men 74% (7,094). Women have 30% 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

Two men

103

Exhibit F: behind the camera

2 of the 15 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 24% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: John Francis Daley (man), Jonathan Goldstein (man)
Written by: Mark Perez (man)
Produced by: Jason Bateman (man), John Fox (man), John Davis (man), James Garavente (gender not listed)
Shot by: Barry Peterson (man)
Edited by: David Egan (man), Jamie Gross (woman), Gregory Plotkin (man)
Music by: Cliff Martinez (man)
Production design by: Michael Corenblith (man)
Costumes by: Debra McGuire (woman)
Cast by: Rich Delia (man)