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Jurassic Park

1993. Directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Michael Crichton and David Koepp.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    2 women characters. 3 of them speak.
  2. Yes 2. Who talk to each other
    In 3 scenes out of 93.
  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 Jurassic Park

The film

On a remote island, a wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening the attraction to the public, he invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park -- and help calm anxious investors. However, their park visit is anything but tranquil as the park's security system breaks down, the prehistoric creatures break out, and the excitement builds to surprising results.

Released
11 Jun 1993
Genres
Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rated
PG-13
IMDb
8.2 / 10
Metascore
68 / 100
Awards
Won 3 Oscars. 44 wins & 27 nominations total
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Grant 152 lines, man
  2. Hammond 97 lines, man
  3. Ellie 80 lines, woman
  4. Lex 78 lines, woman
  5. Timmy 55 lines
  6. Muldoon 51 lines, man
  7. Arnold 50 lines, man
  8. Wu 43 lines, man
  9. Regis 31 lines, man
  10. Gennaro 28 lines, man
Full cast, 22 people
  • Sam Neill as Grant
  • Laura Dern as Ellie
  • Jeff Goldblum as Malcolm
  • Richard Attenborough as Hammond
  • Bob Peck as Muldoon
  • Martin Ferrero as Gennaro
  • BD Wong as Wu
  • Joseph Mazzello as Tim
  • Ariana Richards as Lex
  • Samuel L. Jackson as Arnold
  • Wayne Knight as Nedry
  • Gerald R. Molen as Harding
  • Miguel Sandoval as Rostagno
  • Cameron Thor as Dodgson
  • Christopher John Fields as Volunteer #1
  • Whit Hertford as Volunteer Boy
  • Dean Cundey as Mate
  • Jophery C. Brown as Worker in Raptor Pen
  • Tom Mishler as Helicopter Pilot
  • Greg Burson as Mr. D.N.A. (voice)
  • Adrian Escober as Worker at Amber Mine
  • Richard Kiley as Jurassic Park Tour Voice (voice)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 13% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 93

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 2813
3 to 409
5 to 6416
7 to 8211
9 to 10226
11 to 12316
13 to 14313
15 to 16213
17 to 18420
19 to 20213
21 to 2215
23 to 2429
25 to 261019
27 to 28223
29 to 30310
31 to 32010
33 to 3401
35 to 36416
37 to 381114
39 to 4004
41 to 42512
43 to 44522
45 to 46111
47 to 4800
49 to 50614
51 to 52322
53 to 5400
55 to 5623
57 to 5898
59 to 60010
61 to 62310
63 to 641430
65 to 661117
67 to 68231
69 to 7000
71 to 7223
73 to 7426
75 to 7686
77 to 7847
79 to 8011
81 to 8283
83 to 8420
85 to 8600
87 to 8800
89 to 90514
91 to 92319
93 to 9300

The evidence

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

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Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
LEX: That's a million year old mosquito? ELLIE: Put in a piece of amber, find a mosquito, drill it out. Right?
ELLIE: Lot of track in college. LEX: I'm hungry. When can we get going?
ELLIE: One - ELLIE: Two - ELLIE: Three! LEX: We did it!

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 24 are women's.

159 lines from women, 510 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

2 women and 18 men in the cast. 3 women and 13 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 4 of 771. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 34 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

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

Words spoken

Women speak 15% of the words (1,168), men 85% (6,644). Women have 24% 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

Exhibit F: behind the camera

3 of the 12 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 29% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Steven Spielberg (man)
Written by
David Koepp (man), Michael Crichton (man)
From the novel by
Michael Crichton (man)
Produced by
Kathleen Kennedy (woman), Gerald R. Molen (man)
Shot by
Dean Cundey (man)
Edited by
Michael Kahn (man)
Music by
John Williams (man)
Production design by
Rick Carter (man)
Cast by
Janet Hirshenson (woman), Jane Jenkins (woman)

The crew, department by department

  • Other crew

    5 women, 17 men, 18 not listed

  • Sound

    6 women, 20 men, 4 not listed

  • Art

    6 women, 10 men, 11 not listed

  • Production

    6 women, 7 men, 10 not listed

  • Visual Effects

    1 women, 7 men, 10 not listed

  • Camera

    1 women, 4 men, 8 not listed

  • Costume & Make-Up

    4 women, 2 men, 2 not listed

  • Directing

    3 women, 4 men, 1 not listed

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 20 on average. Men: 41 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Ariana Richards 13, Laura Dern 26

Men

Joseph Mazzello 9, BD Wong 32, Jeff Goldblum 40, Samuel L. Jackson 44, Sam Neill 45, Martin Ferrero 45, Bob Peck 47, Richard Attenborough 69

Exhibit H: the money

It made 16.8 times what it cost.

Budget
$63 million
Box office
$1.1 billion

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 93 scenes and 771 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works

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