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Geostorm

2017. Directed by Dean Devlin, written by Dean Devlin and Paul Guyot.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    10 women characters. 5 of them speak.
  2. Yes 2. Who talk to each other
    In 3 scenes out of 217.
  3. 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.

Poster for Geostorm

The film

When catastrophic climate change endangers Earth's very survival, world governments unite and create the Dutch Boy Program: a worldwide net of satellites surrounding the planet, that are armed with geoengineering technologies designed to stave off the natural disasters. After three years of successful protection, something starts to go wrong. Two estranged brothers are tasked with solving the program's malfunction before a worldwide Geostorm can engulf the planet.

Released
20 Oct 2017
Genres
Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Rated
PG-13
IMDb
5.4 / 10
Metascore
21 / 100
Awards
1 win & 1 nomination total
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Jake 209 lines, man
  2. Max 167 lines, man
  3. Ute 115 lines, woman
  4. Sarah 62 lines, woman
  5. Hannah 39 lines, woman
  6. Dekkom 33 lines, man
  7. Dussette 30 lines, man
  8. President Litton 29 lines, man
  9. Aluko 27 lines
  10. Dr. Jennings 24 lines, woman
Full cast, 46 people
  • Gerard Butler as Jake Lawson
  • Jim Sturgess as Max Lawson
  • Abbie Cornish as Sarah Wilson
  • Alexandra Maria Lara as Ute Fassbinder
  • Daniel Wu as Cheng Long
  • Eugenio Derbez as Al Hernandez
  • Amr Waked as Ray Dussette
  • Adepero Oduye as Eni Adisa
  • Andy Garcia as President Andrew Palma
  • Ed Harris as Leonard Dekkom
  • Robert Sheehan as Duncan Taylor
  • Richard Schiff as Senator Cross
  • Mare Winningham as Cassandra Jennings
  • Zazie Beetz as Dana
  • Talitha Eliana Bateman as Hannah Lawson
  • Daniella Garcia as Mickey
  • Ritchie Montgomery as Mike
  • David S. Lee as Rico
  • Billy Slaughter as Karl
  • Gregory Alan Williams as General Montgraff
  • Richard Regan Paul as Makmoud Habib
  • David Jensen as Brackish Quigley
  • Derek Roberts as Major Collner
  • Nathan Moore as NASA Techie #1
  • Blake Burt as UN Private
  • Judd Lormand as Richard Hill
  • Corey Mendell Parker as Lammy
  • Catherine Ashton as British Tech
  • Arnold Chun as Japanese Tech
  • Randall Newsome as Vice President Miller
  • Sean Paul Braud as Dixon
  • Aidan Singh as Little Mumbai Boy
  • Douglas M. Griffin as NASA Tech Mission Control
  • Eric John Ukleja as Secret Service Agent
  • Joe Drago as Senior NASA Tech
  • Asher McCleary as Boyfriend
  • Evgeny Krutov as Russian Man
  • Anastasiya Rul as Russian Woman
  • Adam Stephenson as Comb Tech
  • Carlos Antonio as Uniformed Guard
  • Julia Denton as Hannah's Mom
  • Tom Choi as Lee (uncredited)
  • Edgar Leza as NASA Guard (uncredited)
  • Hannah Devlin as Sophie (uncredited)
  • Randy Havens as Trey Grant (uncredited)
  • Ricardo Vargas as Nasa Guard (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 5 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 9% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 217

Hover, tap or tab to a bar to see those scenes: where they happen and who's talking.

Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 502
6 to 10626
11 to 15412
16 to 2003
21 to 251225
26 to 3000
31 to 351138
36 to 40034
41 to 4514
46 to 50519
51 to 551012
56 to 6004
61 to 65818
66 to 701249
71 to 7501
76 to 801036
81 to 851616
86 to 90716
91 to 95719
96 to 1002735
101 to 105711
106 to 110720
111 to 1151026
116 to 120010
121 to 12554
126 to 1301319
131 to 1351016
136 to 14013
141 to 14547
146 to 15035
151 to 15517
156 to 16047
161 to 165214
166 to 17026
171 to 17528
176 to 1801011
181 to 185512
186 to 19019
191 to 195519
196 to 20042
201 to 20521
206 to 2101412
211 to 21502
216 to 21735

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.
MICKEY: Commander, we've just been given a priority course correction order. UTE: From Climate Command? MICKEY: From the White House. They're in the conference bridge.
UTE: Yes? MICKEY: Commander. Something's going on with the satellites. UTE: We'll be right there.
HANNAH: With the Space Station gone, what will happen with the satellites? UTE: We can control them from shuttles until we get a new Space Station.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 29 are women's.

251 lines from women, 605 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

10 women and 31 men in the cast. 5 women and 16 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 10 of 936. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 44 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

  • First line by a woman
  • Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 27% of the words (2,249), men 73% (6,196). Women have 29% 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

Exhibit F: behind the camera

3 of the 14 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 25% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Dean Devlin (man)
Written by
Paul Guyot (man), Dean Devlin (man)
Produced by
Dean Devlin (man), David Ellison (man), Dana Goldberg (woman)
Shot by
Roberto Schaefer (man)
Edited by
Ron Rosen (man), Chris Lebenzon (man), John Refoua (man)
Music by
Lorne Balfe (man)
Production design by
Kirk M. Petruccelli (man)
Costumes by
Susan Matheson (woman)
Cast by
Ronna Kress (woman)

The crew, department by department

  • Visual Effects

    4 women, 15 men, 45 not listed

  • Other crew

    7 women, 8 men, 18 not listed

  • Sound

    1 women, 19 men, 7 not listed

  • Costume & Make-Up

    5 women, 4 men, 14 not listed

  • Art

    3 women, 6 men, 8 not listed

  • Production

    4 women, 8 men, 2 not listed

  • Camera

    0 women, 7 men, 6 not listed

  • Editing

    0 women, 4 men, 1 not listed

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 37 on average. Men: 51 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Abbie Cornish 35, Alexandra Maria Lara 38, Adepero Oduye 39

Men

Jim Sturgess 39, Daniel Wu 43, Gerard Butler 47, Amr Waked 47, Eugenio Derbez 56, Andy Garcia 61, Ed Harris 66

Exhibit H: the money

It made 1.8 times what it cost.

Budget
$120 million
Box office
$222 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 217 scenes and 936 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works

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