Fails the Bechdel test
Get Low
2010. Directed by Aaron Schneider, written by Chris Provenzano and C. Gaby Mitchell and Scott Seeke.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
2 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
4 women characters. 3 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
Felix Bush (Robert Duvall) is a hermit who has no regard for anybody in the town or anyone who wants to get to know him. But one day, after a fellow old hermit has died and he hears people in the town telling stories about him, he decides that he needs to get these stories out in the public. He recruits Frank (Bill Murray), the local funeral home director, to host his own funeral. This way he can hear what everyone is saying about him, and get the truth to his past out in the open. But will he be able to get anybody to come? And will he be able to reveal his secrets?
- Released
- 27 Aug 2010
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 7 / 10
- Metascore
- 77 / 100
- Awards
- 4 wins & 28 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Bush 210 lines, man
- Frank 155 lines, man
- Buddy 126 lines, man
- Mattie 69 lines, woman
- Charlie 52 lines, man
- Horton 37 lines, man
- Kathryn 21 lines, woman
- Announcer 14 lines, man
- Carl 14 lines, man
- Ray 12 lines, man
Full cast, 17 people
- Robert Duvall as Felix Bush
- Bill Murray as Frank Quinn
- Sissy Spacek as Mattie Darrow
- Lucas Black as Buddy
- Bill Cobbs as Rev. Charlie Jackson
- Gerald McRaney as Rev. Gus Horton
- Scott Cooper as Carl
- Chandler Riggs as Tom
- Lori Beth Sikes as Kathryn
- Linds Edwards as WKNG Announcer
- Andrea Powell as Bonnie
- Danny Vinson as Grier
- Blerim Destani as Gary
- Tomasz Karolak as Orville
- Andy Stahl as Photographer
- Marc Gowan as Mr. Feldman
- Arin Logan as Mary Lee Stroup
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 2% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 136
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 to 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 to 9 | 0 | 10 |
| 10 to 12 | 0 | 3 |
| 13 to 15 | 0 | 32 |
| 16 to 18 | 4 | 9 |
| 19 to 21 | 0 | 24 |
| 22 to 24 | 0 | 35 |
| 25 to 27 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 to 30 | 0 | 10 |
| 31 to 33 | 4 | 35 |
| 34 to 36 | 8 | 14 |
| 37 to 39 | 0 | 5 |
| 40 to 42 | 0 | 15 |
| 43 to 45 | 0 | 9 |
| 46 to 48 | 16 | 44 |
| 49 to 51 | 2 | 15 |
| 52 to 54 | 0 | 5 |
| 55 to 57 | 5 | 13 |
| 58 to 60 | 17 | 19 |
| 61 to 63 | 8 | 44 |
| 64 to 66 | 0 | 4 |
| 67 to 69 | 5 | 7 |
| 70 to 72 | 0 | 3 |
| 73 to 75 | 0 | 46 |
| 76 to 78 | 0 | 11 |
| 79 to 81 | 0 | 2 |
| 82 to 84 | 0 | 7 |
| 85 to 87 | 13 | 11 |
| 88 to 90 | 6 | 42 |
| 91 to 93 | 2 | 0 |
| 94 to 96 | 0 | 25 |
| 97 to 99 | 0 | 0 |
| 100 to 102 | 0 | 18 |
| 103 to 105 | 0 | 15 |
| 106 to 108 | 0 | 2 |
| 109 to 111 | 0 | 7 |
| 112 to 114 | 0 | 4 |
| 115 to 117 | 1 | 15 |
| 118 to 120 | 0 | 8 |
| 121 to 123 | 0 | 6 |
| 124 to 126 | 0 | 4 |
| 127 to 129 | 0 | 17 |
| 130 to 132 | 1 | 3 |
| 133 to 135 | 1 | 20 |
| 136 to 136 | 0 | 9 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 13 are women's.
93 lines from women, 627 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
4 women and 13 men in the cast. 3 women and 10 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 50 of 733.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 106 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 14% of the words (1,472), men 86% (8,955). Women have 13% of the lines, so their lines run longer 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
1
Two men
54
Exhibit E: behind the camera
2 of the 12 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 13% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Aaron Schneider (man)
- Written by
- Chris Provenzano (man), C. Gaby Mitchell (gender not listed)
- Produced by
- David Gundlach (man), Dean Zanuck (man)
- Shot by
- David Boyd (man)
- Edited by
- Aaron Schneider (man)
- Music by
- Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (man)
- Production design by
- Geoffrey Kirkland (man)
- Costumes by
- Julie Weiss (woman)
- Cast by
- Craig Fincannon (man), Lisa Mae Fincannon (woman)
The crew, department by department
-
Production
1 women, 3 men, 1 not listed
-
Art
0 women, 3 men
-
Editing
0 women, 2 men
-
Writing
0 women, 1 men, 1 not listed
-
Camera
0 women, 1 men
-
Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 0 men
-
Directing
0 women, 1 men
-
Sound
0 women, 1 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 47 on average. Men: 51 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Lori Beth Sikes 34, Sissy Spacek 60
Men
Chandler Riggs 11, Lucas Black 27, Scott Cooper 40, Bill Murray 59, Gerald McRaney 62, Bill Cobbs 76, Robert Duvall 79
Exhibit G: the money
It made 15.0 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $700,000
- Box office
- $10.5 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 136 scenes and 733 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
