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Heavyweights

1995. Directed by Steven Brill, written by Judd Apatow and Steven Brill.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

1 / 3

Fails

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    6 women characters. 3 of them speak.
  2. No 2. Who talk to each other
    Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other.
  3. No 3. About something besides a man
    Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 0 out of 3.

Poster for Heavyweights

The film

11-year-old Gerry Garner lives in Long Island, New York, and is overweight. His parents decide to send him to Camp Hope, a camp for overweight boys. It is owned by kindly Harvey Bushkin and his equally kind wife, Alice. When they file for bankruptcy, the camp has to be sold. It is bought by a wacko named Tony Perkis. He plans to force the campers to lose as much weight as they can, and also intends to document the marathon shedding of weight and use it for an infomercial for his slenderizing program. In the eyes of the campers, he has made Camp Hope a living hell. As Gerry and counselor Pat Finley lead the efforts to overthrow him, the campers prepare for the Apache Relay against arch rival Camp MVP. The Apache Relay is a kind of race in which Camp Hope has never defeated Camp MVP before.

Released
17 Feb 1995
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Family
Rated
PG
IMDb
6.6 / 10
Metascore
42 / 100
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Pat 147 lines, man
  2. Gerry 123 lines, man
  3. Tim 117 lines, man
  4. Josh 89 lines, man
  5. Tony 75 lines, man
  6. Julie 57 lines, woman
  7. Roy 39 lines, man
  8. Philip 23 lines, man
  9. Lars 16 lines, man
  10. Gbrry 10 lines, man
Full cast, 39 people
  • David Goldman as Nicholas
  • Tom McGowan as Pat
  • Joseph Wayne Miller as Sam
  • Cody Burger as Cody
  • Aaron Schwartz as Gerry
  • Allen Covert as Kenny
  • Kenan Thompson as Roy
  • Tim Blake Nelson as Camp Hope Salesman
  • Leah Lail as Julie
  • Ben Stiller as Tony Perkis / Tony Perkis Sr.
  • Shaun Weiss as Josh
  • Tom Hodges as Lars
  • Paul Feig as Tim
  • David Bowe as Chris Donelly
  • Max Goldblatt as Phillip
  • Patrick LaBrecque as Dawson
  • Jerry Stiller as Harvey Bushkin
  • Anne Meara as Alice Bushkin
  • Robert Zalkind as Simms
  • Jeffrey Tambor as Maury Garner
  • Nancy Ringham as Mrs. Garner
  • Seth St. Laurent as Camp MVP Racer
  • Bobby Fain as Camp MVP Pitcher
  • Robert E. Spencer III as Soccer Goalie
  • Dustin Greer as Blob Master
  • Matthew R. Zboyovski as Hope Wall Climber
  • J.T. Alessi as Balloon Shaver
  • Chris Snyder as Baseball Scorekeeper
  • Aubrey Dollar as Camp Magnolia Girl
  • Mary Holt Fickes as Camp Magnolia Girl
  • Jamie Olson as Camp Magnolia Girl
  • Lauren Hill as Angelic Girl
  • Lois Yaroshefsky as Camp Magnolia Counselor
  • Matthew Bradley King as Gerry's School Buddy
  • Deena Dill as Stewardess
  • Tom Kelley as Man on Plane
  • Landry M. Constantino as Kissing Girl
  • Lars Clark as Jack Garner
  • Judd Apatow as Homer

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 10% 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
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 3010
4 to 6015
7 to 944
10 to 12127
13 to 15125
16 to 18021
19 to 21023
22 to 24923
25 to 27030
28 to 30015
31 to 33035
34 to 361214
37 to 39016
40 to 42511
43 to 45313
46 to 48045
49 to 51023
52 to 5400
55 to 57748
58 to 60035
61 to 63126
64 to 66635
67 to 6937
70 to 72422
73 to 75020
76 to 7802
79 to 8105
82 to 8402
85 to 87114
88 to 9009
91 to 93018
94 to 9605
97 to 99012
100 to 10229
103 to 105011
106 to 108620
109 to 111013
112 to 114017
115 to 11702
118 to 12005
121 to 12307
124 to 12405

The evidence

  • Straight from the script
  • Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 9 are women's.

65 lines from women, 699 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

6 women and 17 men in the cast. 3 women and 14 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 40 of 851. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 116 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

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

Words spoken

Women speak 7% of the words (652), men 93% (8,592). Women have 9% of the lines, so their lines run shorter 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

Exhibit E: behind the camera

3 of the 12 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 25% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Steven Brill (man)
Written by
Steven Brill (man), Judd Apatow (man)
Produced by
Joe Roth (man), Roger Birnbaum (man)
Shot by
Victor Hammer (man)
Edited by
Carroll Timothy O'Meara (man)
Music by
J.A.C. Redford (man)
Production design by
Stephen Storer (man)
Costumes by
Kimberly A. Tillman (woman)
Cast by
Judy Taylor (woman), Lynda Gordon (woman)

The crew, department by department

  • Production

    4 women, 8 men, 8 not listed

  • Other crew

    0 women, 11 men, 5 not listed

  • Sound

    4 women, 8 men, 4 not listed

  • Camera

    0 women, 6 men, 6 not listed

  • Costume & Make-Up

    4 women, 1 men, 5 not listed

  • Editing

    1 women, 4 men, 4 not listed

  • Directing

    2 women, 3 men, 2 not listed

  • Art

    1 women, 4 men, 1 not listed

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit F: how old the stars were

Women: 29 on average. Men: 24 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Leah Lail 29

Men

Cody Burger 11, Aaron Schwartz 14, Kenan Thompson 16, Ben Stiller 29, Allen Covert 30, Tim Blake Nelson 30, Tom McGowan 35

Exhibit G: the money

It made 1.8 times what it cost.

Budget
$10 million
Box office
$17.7 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 124 scenes and 851 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works

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