Passes the Bechdel test

Get Out

Name: Get Out
Released: 2017

2017. Directed by Jordan Peele, written by Jordan Peele.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
8 women characters. 9 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 5 scenes out of 124.
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

Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

Released: 24 Feb 2017
Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Rated: R
IMDb: 7.8 / 10
Metascore: 85 / 100
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. 154 wins & 215 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Chris 284 lines, man
Rose 145 lines, woman
Rod 77 lines, man
Dean 75 lines, man
Missy 70 lines, woman
Jeremy 36 lines, man
Jim 34 lines, man
Detective Latoya 17 lines, woman
Andre 16 lines, man
Andre/Logan 9 lines, man

Full cast, 29 people

Daniel Kaluuya as Chris Washington
Allison Williams as Rose Armitage
Catherine Keener as Missy Armitage
Bradley Whitford as Dean Armitage
Caleb Landry Jones as Jeremy Armitage
Marcus Henderson as Walter
Betty Gabriel as Georgina
LaKeith Stanfield as Andre Logan King
Stephen Root as Jim Hudson
Lil Rel Howery as Rod Williams
Ashley LeConte Campbell as Lisa Deets
John Wilmot as Gordon Greene
Caren L. Larkey as Emily Greene
Julie Ann Doan as April Dray
Rutherford Cravens as Parker Dray
Geraldine Singer as Philomena King
Yasuhiko Oyama as Hiroki Tanaka
Richard Herd as Roman Armitage
Erika Alexander as Detective Latoya
Jeronimo Spinx as Detective Drake
Ian Casselberry as Detective Garcia
Trey Burvant as Officer Ryan
John Donohue as Police Officer #1
Sean Paul Braud as Police Officer #2
Zailand Adams as Chris 11 year old
Keegan-Michael Key as NCAA Prospect (uncredited)
Jordan Peele as Dying Deer / UNCF PSA Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Evan Shafran as Travel Passenger (uncredited)
Tahj Vaughans as Dead Ex Boyfriend (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 5% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 124

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	3
4 to 6	0	0
7 to 9	0	9
10 to 12	0	1
13 to 15	0	2
16 to 18	0	0
19 to 21	1	0
22 to 24	12	13
25 to 27	4	2
28 to 30	3	6
31 to 33	12	26
34 to 36	7	6
37 to 39	17	19
40 to 42	8	29
43 to 45	1	19
46 to 48	36	52
49 to 51	0	0
52 to 54	0	0
55 to 57	0	0
58 to 60	21	19
61 to 63	9	3
64 to 66	2	6
67 to 69	9	25
70 to 72	11	20
73 to 75	1	38
76 to 78	3	9
79 to 81	1	0
82 to 84	10	42
85 to 87	8	31
88 to 90	3	3
91 to 93	12	12
94 to 96	2	15
97 to 99	21	41
100 to 102	0	2
103 to 105	0	6
106 to 108	18	17
109 to 111	3	4
112 to 114	13	56
115 to 117	1	4
118 to 120	0	1
121 to 123	1	26
124 to 124	0	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.

MISSY: How was the ride in? ROSE: We hit a deer.

MISSY: Uch. ROSE: You realize you're coming off like a total douche right now, right?

MISSY: I'm going to see how dessert is coming along. Maybe we can change the conversation to something a little lighter. ROSE: Yeah, great story. Thanks for making it totally uncomfortable.

LISA: I'm being too forward? ROSE: We'll talk later.

ROSE: Let's go. MISSY: Anybody need a drink? ROSE: We're going on a walk.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 31 are women's.

250 lines from women, 567 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

8 women and 20 men in the cast. 9 women and 12 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 28 of 859. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 43 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 (1,859), men 74% (5,368). Women have 31% 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

Exhibit F: behind the camera

1 of the 13 people in these jobs is a woman. Across the whole crew, 37% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Jordan Peele (man)
Written by: Jordan Peele (man)
Produced by: Jason Blum (man), Edward H. Hamm Jr. (man), Sean McKittrick (man), Jordan Peele (man)
Shot by: Toby Oliver (man), Denson Baker (man)
Edited by: Gregory Plotkin (man)
Music by: Michael Abels (man)
Production design by: Rusty Smith (man)
Costumes by: Nadine Haders (gender not listed)
Cast by: Terri Taylor (woman)