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Passes the Bechdel test

Inside Out

2015. Directed by Ronnie Del Carmen and Pete Docter, written by Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen and Meg LeFauve.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    22 women characters. 13 of them speak.
  2. Yes 2. Who talk to each other
    In 40 scenes out of 380.
  3. 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.

Poster for Inside Out

The film

Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, she is guided by her emotions, Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness. They live in Headquarters, the control center inside her mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As she and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.

Released
19 Jun 2015
Genres
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Rated
PG
IMDb
8.1 / 10
Metascore
94 / 100
Awards
Won 1 Oscar. 99 wins & 120 nominations total
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Joy 318 lines, woman
  2. Sadness 119 lines, woman
  3. Bing Bong 102 lines, man
  4. Fear 85 lines, man
  5. Anger 77 lines, man
  6. Disgust 69 lines, woman
  7. Mom 49 lines, woman
  8. Riley 44 lines, woman
  9. Dad 36 lines, man
  10. Female Forgetter 11 lines
Full cast, 58 people
  • Amy Poehler as Joy (voice)
  • Phyllis Smith as Sadness (voice)
  • Richard Kind as Bing Bong (voice)
  • Bill Hader as Fear (voice)
  • Lewis Black as Anger (voice)
  • Mindy Kaling as Disgust (voice)
  • Kaitlyn Dias as Riley (voice)
  • Diane Lane as Mom (voice)
  • Kyle MacLachlan as Dad (voice)
  • Paula Poundstone as Forgetter Paula (voice)
  • Bobby Moynihan as Forgetter Bobby (voice)
  • Paula Pell as Dream Director / Mom's Anger (voice)
  • Dave Goelz as Subconscious Guard Frank (voice)
  • Frank Oz as Subconscious Guard Dave (voice)
  • Josh Cooley as Jangles (voice)
  • Flea as Mind Worker Cop Jake (voice)
  • John Ratzenberger as Fritz (voice)
  • Carlos Alazraqui as Helicopter Pilot (voice)
  • Peter Sagal as Clown's Joy (voice)
  • Rashida Jones as Cool Girl's Emotions (voice)
  • Lori Alan as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Gregg Berger as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Veronika Bonell as Additional Voices (voice)
  • John Cygan as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Andrea Datzman as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Pete Docter as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Tony Fucile as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Randy Hahn as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Jacob Hopkins as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Evan Hudak as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Molly Jackson as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Sophia Lee Karadi as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Erik Langley as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Sherry Lynn as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Mona Marshall as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Bret Parker as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Nick Pitera as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Murray Pearl Schaeffer as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Paris Van Dyke as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Lennon Wynn as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Aurora Blue as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Lola Cooley as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Dani Dare as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Ronnie del Carmen as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Keith Ferguson as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Mary Gibbs as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Carter Hastings as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Emma Hudak as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Dara Iruka as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Daniella Jones as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Elissa Knight as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Dawnn Lewis as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Tony Maki as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Laraine Newman as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Phil Proctor as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Patrick Seitz as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Jim Ward as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Dashell Zamm as Additional Voices (voice)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 8 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 7% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 380

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 8111
9 to 16105
17 to 24105
25 to 3231
33 to 4050
41 to 4843
49 to 5651
57 to 641210
65 to 721511
73 to 8074
81 to 8861
89 to 96188
97 to 104394
105 to 1121614
113 to 12074
121 to 128234
129 to 13683
137 to 144113
145 to 15292
153 to 160125
161 to 168207
169 to 176104
177 to 18456
185 to 192211
193 to 20027
201 to 20884
209 to 216413
217 to 224176
225 to 2326554
233 to 240814
241 to 2482316
249 to 2563323
257 to 264114
265 to 27242
273 to 28097
281 to 2882126
289 to 29669
297 to 3042110
305 to 312143
313 to 3202211
321 to 32864
329 to 336117
337 to 344510
345 to 352166
353 to 36052
361 to 36843
369 to 3761716
377 to 38093

The evidence

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

Tap an exhibit to open it.

Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
JOY: ...for 33 seconds. SADNESS: I’m Sadness. JOY: Oh, hello. I’m Joy. JOY: Can I just... if you could... I just want to fix that. Thanks.
JOY: Hmm. This looks new. FEAR/SADNESS: Do you think it’s safe?/What is it?
DISGUST: Why don't we just live in this smelly car? We've already been in it forever. JOY: Which, actually, was really lucky, because that gave us plenty of time to think about what our new house is going to look like! Let’s review…
JOY: Ohh, this is will be great for Riley! Oh, no, no, no, THIS one. DISGUST: Ugh, Joy. For the last time, she cannot live in a cookie.
SADNESS: Do we have to? DISGUST: I’m telling you, it smells like something died in here.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 64 are women's.

646 lines from women, 367 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

22 women and 26 men in the cast. 13 women and 21 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

A woman speaks the first line. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 13 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

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

Words spoken

Women speak 64% of the words (5,371), men 36% (3,038).

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

Exhibit F: behind the camera

3 of the 12 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 37% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Pete Docter (man)
Written by
Meg LeFauve (woman), Josh Cooley (man), Pete Docter (man)
Produced by
Jonas Rivera (man)
Shot by
Patrick Lin (man)
Edited by
Kevin Nolting (man)
Music by
Michael Giacchino (man)
Production design by
Ralph Eggleston (man)
Cast by
Natalie Lyon (woman), Kevin Reher (man), Mickie McGowan (woman)

The crew, department by department

  • Other crew

    14 women, 23 men, 95 not listed

  • Visual Effects

    4 women, 14 men, 53 not listed

  • Production

    11 women, 5 men, 33 not listed

  • Lighting

    6 women, 1 men, 31 not listed

  • Editing

    4 women, 6 men, 21 not listed

  • Sound

    4 women, 16 men, 7 not listed

  • Art

    1 women, 3 men, 4 not listed

  • Writing

    1 women, 7 men

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 44 on average. Men: 54 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Kaitlyn Dias 16, Mindy Kaling 35, Amy Poehler 43, Diane Lane 50, Paula Poundstone 55, Phyllis Smith 65

Men

Bill Hader 37, Kyle MacLachlan 56, Richard Kind 58, Lewis Black 66

Exhibit H: the money

It made 4.9 times what it cost.

Budget
$175 million
Box office
$858 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 380 scenes and 1,084 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works

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