Passes the Bechdel test

Hard Rain

Name: Hard Rain
Released: 1998

1998. Directed by Mikael Salomon, written by Graham Yost.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
2 women characters. 2 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 146.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 2 out of 3.

The film

In the small town of Huntingburg, the armored truck with three million dollars driven by Tom and his Uncle Charlie gets stuck in the flooding. They realize that the town has been evacuated since the dam does not have capacity to hold the storm. While waiting for the National Guard, they are attacked by Jim and his gang formed by Kenny, Mr. Mehlor and Ray and the clumsy Kenny kills Charlie. Tom flees with the bags of money and hides them in the cemetery. Then he is hunted down by Jim and his gang and he hides in a church. Out of the blue, he is knocked out and awakes locked in a cell. Soon he learns that the restorer Karen believed he was a looter and hit him. Sheriff Mike Collins and Deputy Wayne Bryce go to investigate Tom' story while Officer Phil takes Karen out of the town by boat. However she escapes with the boat and goes to the church. Meanwhile Tom is trapped in the cell full of water and Karen rescues him. He decides to return to the armored truck to retrieve a shotgun but he is captured by Jim and his men and learns that Charlie was part of the gang. He tries to retrieve the hidden money for the gang, but Sheriff Collins and his men have already taken it. Soon Tom learns that the Sheriff wants to keep the money for him and his men and Tom and Karen are witnesses and he teams up with Jim.

Released: 16 Jan 1998
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama
Rated: R
IMDb: 5.9 / 10
Metascore: 36 / 100
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Tom 145 lines, man
Jim 99 lines, man
Sheriff 83 lines, man
Karen 52 lines, woman
Charlie 49 lines, man
Wayne 36 lines, man
Phil 29 lines, man
Kenny 28 lines, man
Doreen 27 lines, woman
Ray 20 lines, man

Full cast, 18 people

Morgan Freeman as Jim
Christian Slater as Tom
Minnie Driver as Karen
Randy Quaid as Sheriff Mike Collins
Ed Asner as Uncle Charlie
Betty White as Doreen Sears
Richard Dysart as Henry Sears
Dann Florek as Mr. Mehlor
Michael A. Goorjian as Kenny
Ricky Harris as Ray
Mark Rolston as Wayne Bryce
Peter Murnik as Phil
Wayne Duvall as Hank
Ray Baker as Mayor
Jay Patterson as Mr Wellman
Michael Monks as Father on Local News
Mackenzie Bryce as Baby on Local News
Lisa Fuhrman as Mayor's Wife

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 1% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 146

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 4	0	21
5 to 8	0	55
9 to 12	0	34
13 to 16	6	60
17 to 20	0	7
21 to 24	0	2
25 to 28	0	6
29 to 32	0	9
33 to 36	6	46
37 to 40	0	4
41 to 44	0	1
45 to 48	4	4
49 to 52	0	0
53 to 56	0	0
57 to 60	1	0
61 to 64	0	2
65 to 68	14	25
69 to 72	6	15
73 to 76	11	24
77 to 80	3	14
81 to 84	6	15
85 to 88	0	23
89 to 92	1	44
93 to 96	0	18
97 to 100	0	25
101 to 104	0	12
105 to 108	4	10
109 to 112	0	4
113 to 116	1	1
117 to 120	1	10
121 to 124	4	25
125 to 128	2	5
129 to 132	0	0
133 to 136	0	1
137 to 140	0	0
141 to 144	3	1
145 to 146	7	22

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scene

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

DOREEN: Well, isn't that just wonderful! Now these bastards are gonna want to kill us, too! Why the hell did you have to come to this house? KAREN: We thought it was empty. DOREEN: You know what? The house next door is empty. So whaddya say we go back downstairs and you two keep moving?

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 13 are women's.

80 lines from women, 545 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

2 women and 14 men in the cast. 2 women and 12 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 118 of 630. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 117 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 12% of the words (740), men 88% (5,275). Women have 13% 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

4 of the 15 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 16% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Mikael Salomon (man)
Written by: Graham Yost (man)
Produced by: Mark Gordon (man), Gary Levinsohn (man), Art Levinson (man), Ian Bryce (man)
Shot by: Peter Menzies Jr. (man)
Edited by: Paul Hirsch (man), Amnon David (gender not listed), Gillian L. Hutshing (woman)
Music by: Christopher Young (man)
Production design by: J. Michael Riva (man)
Costumes by: Kathleen Detoro (woman)
Cast by: Randi Hiller (woman), Risa Bramon Garcia (woman)