Passes the Bechdel test

Her

Name: Her
Released: 2014

2014. Directed by Spike Jonze, written by Spike Jonze.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
14 women characters. 8 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 88.
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

Theodore is a lonely man in the final stages of his divorce. When he's not working as a letter writer, his down time is spent playing video games and occasionally hanging out with friends. He decides to purchase the new OS1, which is advertised as the world's first artificially intelligent operating system, "It's not just an operating system, it's a consciousness," the ad states. Theodore quickly finds himself drawn in with Samantha, the voice behind his OS1. As they start spending time together they grow closer and closer and eventually find themselves in love. Having fallen in love with his OS, Theodore finds himself dealing with feelings of both great joy and doubt. As an OS, Samantha has powerful intelligence that she uses to help Theodore in ways others hadn't, but how does she help him deal with his inner conflict of being in love with an OS?

Released: 10 Jan 2014
Genres: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Rated: R
IMDb: 7.9 / 10
Metascore: 91 / 100
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. 83 wins & 188 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Theodore 420 lines, man
Samantha 298 lines, woman
Amy 51 lines, woman
Catherine 21 lines, woman
Paul 20 lines, man
Blind Date 19 lines, woman
Text Voice 17 lines, man
Sexykitten 16 lines, woman
Jocelyn 14 lines, man
Alien Child 13 lines, man

Full cast, 39 people

Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore
Scarlett Johansson as Samantha (voice)
Lynn Adrianna as Letter Writer #1
Lisa Renee Pitts as Letter Writer #2
Gabe Gomez as Letter Writer #3
Chris Pratt as Paul
Artt Butler as Text Voice (voice)
May Lindstrom as Sexy Pregnant TV Star
Rooney Mara as Catherine
Bill Hader as Chat Room Friend #2 (voice)
Kristen Wiig as SexyKitten (voice)
Brian D. Johnson as OS1 Commercial Lead
Amy Adams as Amy
Matt Letscher as Charles
Spike Jonze as Alien Child (voice)
Olivia Wilde as Blind Date
David Azar as Theodore's Divorce Attorney
Guy Lewis as Marriage Counselor
Melanie Seacat as Nice Lady
Pramod Kumar as Pizza Vendor
Evelyn Edwards as Mother Who Dated Pricks
Steve Zissis as New Sweet Boyfriend of Mother Who Dated Pricks
Dane White as Son
Nicole Grother as Daughter
James Ozasky as Catherine's Dad
Samantha Sarakanti as Mother of Newborn
Luka Jones as Lewman
Gracie Prewitt as Jocelyn (Birthday Girl)
Claudia Choi as Uncomfortable Waitress
Laura Kai Chen as Tatiana
Portia Doubleday as Surrogate Date Isabella
Soko as Isabella (voice)
Wendy Leon as Grocery Shopper
Lil Buck as Busker / Dancer
Robert Benard as Michael Wadsworth (Editor)
Lisa Cohen as Michael Wadsworth's Wife
Grant Samson as Michael Wadsworth's Associate
Brian Cox as Alan Watts (voice)
Alia Janine as Commuter (uncredited)

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 88

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 2	1	3
3 to 4	0	9
5 to 6	0	14
7 to 8	0	0
9 to 10	0	0
11 to 12	2	0
13 to 14	17	19
15 to 16	31	43
17 to 18	6	17
19 to 20	26	40
21 to 22	5	8
23 to 24	3	5
25 to 26	20	18
27 to 28	14	13
29 to 30	15	14
31 to 32	34	35
33 to 34	2	1
35 to 36	7	5
37 to 38	1	2
39 to 40	5	12
41 to 42	6	7
43 to 44	12	14
45 to 46	30	38
47 to 48	10	12
49 to 50	27	22
51 to 52	13	24
53 to 54	20	14
55 to 56	17	14
57 to 58	4	5
59 to 60	10	6
61 to 62	16	14
63 to 64	16	12
65 to 66	0	0
67 to 68	1	1
69 to 70	11	17
71 to 72	3	4
73 to 74	0	2
75 to 76	18	18
77 to 78	0	0
79 to 80	3	3
81 to 82	11	10
83 to 84	0	0
85 to 86	3	6
87 to 88	0	0

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.

SAMANTHA: Isabella, what's wrong? Isabella, it isn't you. It wasn't you. ISABELLA: Yes, it totally was. I'm sorry my lip quivered!

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 46 are women's.

420 lines from women, 501 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

14 women and 14 men in the cast. 8 women and 7 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 4 of 933. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 27 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 54% of the words (5,688), men 46% (4,887). Women have 46% of the lines, so their lines run longer 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 19 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 23% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Spike Jonze (man)
Written by: Spike Jonze (man)
Produced by: Megan Ellison (woman), Vincent Landay (man), Spike Jonze (man)
Shot by: Hoyte van Hoytema (man)
Edited by: Jeff Buchanan (man), Eric Zumbrunnen (man)
Music by: Régine Chassagne (woman), Richard Reed Parry (man), Tim Kingsbury (gender not listed), Jeremy Gara (man), Win Butler (man), Will Butler (man)
Production design by: K.K. Barrett (man)
Costumes by: Casey Storm (man)
Cast by: Ellen Lewis (woman), Cassandra Kulukundis (woman), Zhiyun Su (gender not listed)