Fails the Bechdel test
Heist
2001. Directed by David Mamet, written by David Mamet.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
1 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
7 women characters. 3 of them speak. -
No
2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.
Second opinion
Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.
The film
Joe Moore has a job he loves. He's a thief. His job goes sour when he gets caught on security camera tape. His fence, Bergman reneges on the money he's owed, and his wife may be betraying him with the fence's young lieutenant. Moore and his partner, Bobby Blane and their utility man, Pinky Pincus find themselves broke, betrayed, and blackmailed. Moore is forced to commit his crew to do one last big job.
- Released
- 09 Nov 2001
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.5 / 10
- Metascore
- 66 / 100
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Moore 340 lines, man
- Fran 176 lines, woman
- Blane 151 lines, man
- Bella 141 lines, man
- Bergman 102 lines, man
- Pincus 98 lines, man
- Trooper 12 lines, man
- Florid Man 11 lines, man
- Cashier 10 lines, woman
- Girl 8 lines, woman
Full cast, 33 people
- Gene Hackman as Joe Moore
- Danny DeVito as Mickey Bergman
- Delroy Lindo as Bobby 'Bob' Blane
- Sam Rockwell as Jimmy Silk
- Rebecca Pidgeon as Fran Moore
- Ricky Jay as Don 'Pinky' Pincus
- Patti LuPone as Betty Croft
- Alan Bilzerian as Fast Food Customer
- Richard L. Friedman as Counterman
- Robert Lussier as Fast Food Cook
- Mark Camacho as Jewelry Store Guard
- Michelle Sweeney as Waitress
- Elyzabeth Walling as Jewelry Saleswoman
- Mike Tsar as Coffee Cart Man
- Jim Frangione as D.A. Freccia
- Christopher Kaldor as Laszlo
- Danny Blanco Hall as Bartender
- Zodia McLean as Pool Player at Bar
- Andreas Apergis as State Trooper
- Tony Calabretta as Coffee Man
- Ted Whittall as Customs Officer
- Guy Sprung as Pilot
- Richard Zeman as Co-Pilot
- Don Jordan as Supervisor in Tower
- Pierre Leblanc as Controller in Tower
- Richard Robitaille as Officier #2
- Greg Goossen as Officer #1
- Charles S. Doucet as Mechanic
- Bill Rowat as Official at Cargo Hangar
- Benz Antoine as Trooper at Cargo Hangar
- Émilie Cassini as Tess, Pincus' Niece
- Jennifer Morehouse as Cashier
- Marlyne Barrett as Young Woman with Blane
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 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 59
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 to 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 5 to 6 | 8 | 13 |
| 7 to 8 | 9 | 24 |
| 9 to 10 | 0 | 87 |
| 11 to 12 | 12 | 96 |
| 13 to 14 | 6 | 64 |
| 15 to 16 | 9 | 124 |
| 17 to 18 | 35 | 72 |
| 19 to 20 | 2 | 37 |
| 21 to 22 | 1 | 15 |
| 23 to 24 | 1 | 8 |
| 25 to 26 | 0 | 18 |
| 27 to 28 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 to 30 | 6 | 16 |
| 31 to 32 | 0 | 5 |
| 33 to 34 | 0 | 2 |
| 35 to 36 | 0 | 13 |
| 37 to 38 | 0 | 14 |
| 39 to 40 | 34 | 73 |
| 41 to 42 | 1 | 5 |
| 43 to 44 | 10 | 10 |
| 45 to 46 | 17 | 19 |
| 47 to 48 | 7 | 10 |
| 49 to 50 | 10 | 15 |
| 51 to 52 | 0 | 26 |
| 53 to 54 | 0 | 13 |
| 55 to 56 | 0 | 0 |
| 57 to 58 | 5 | 46 |
| 59 to 59 | 34 | 60 |
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, 19 are women's.
207 lines from women, 892 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
7 women and 26 men in the cast. 3 women and 11 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 8 of 1,106.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 93 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 16% of the words (1,507), men 84% (8,117). Women have 19% 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
Two women
0
Two men
52
Exhibit E: behind the camera
3 of the 11 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 29% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- David Mamet (man)
- Written by
- David Mamet (man)
- Produced by
- Andrew Stevens (man), Elie Samaha (man), Art Linson (man)
- Shot by
- Robert Elswit (man)
- Edited by
- Barbara Tulliver (woman)
- Music by
- Theodore Shapiro (man)
- Production design by
- David Wasco (man)
- Costumes by
- Renée April (woman)
- Cast by
- Avy Kaufman (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
7 women, 26 men, 4 not listed
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Production
7 women, 9 men, 5 not listed
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Art
4 women, 5 men, 7 not listed
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Sound
2 women, 9 men, 4 not listed
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Camera
1 women, 7 men, 6 not listed
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Directing
2 women, 5 men, 2 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
3 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
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Lighting
0 women, 3 men, 3 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 44 on average. Men: 55 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Rebecca Pidgeon 36, Patti LuPone 52
Men
Sam Rockwell 33, Delroy Lindo 48, Ricky Jay 55, Danny DeVito 56, Robert Lussier 66, Gene Hackman 71
Exhibit G: the money
It made 81% of what it cost.
- Budget
- $35 million
- Box office
- $28.5 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 59 scenes and 1,106 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
