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Jurassic Park III

2001. Directed by Joe Johnston, written by Michael Crichton and Peter Buchman and Alexander Payne.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

1 / 3

Fails

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    7 women characters. 4 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 2 out of 3.

Poster for Jurassic Park III

The film

Dr. Alan Grant is now a happy man with the previous incidents of Jurassic Park now behind him. Grant is so happy that he announces in public that nothing on Earth can persuade him back onto the islands. Maybe nothing, except Paul Kirby. Kirby and his wife, Amanda want a plane to fly them over Isla Sorna, with Dr. Grant as their guide. But not everything Kirby says is true. When the plane lands, Dr. Grant realizes that there is another reason why they are there that he doesn't know of. Now, Dr. Grant is stuck on an island he has never been on before, with what was a plane journey now turned into a search party.

Released
18 Jul 2001
Genres
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rated
PG-13
IMDb
6 / 10
Metascore
42 / 100
Awards
5 wins & 16 nominations total
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Grant 146 lines, man
  2. Paul 98 lines, man
  3. Amanda 85 lines, woman
  4. Billy 57 lines, man
  5. Eric 43 lines, man
  6. Ellie 23 lines, woman
  7. Udesky 20 lines, man
  8. Ben 7 lines, man
  9. Charlie 6 lines, man
  10. Nash 5 lines, man
Full cast, 25 people
  • Sam Neill as Dr. Alan Grant
  • William H. Macy as Paul Kirby
  • Téa Leoni as Amanda Kirby
  • Alessandro Nivola as Billy Brennan
  • Trevor Morgan as Eric Kirby
  • Michael Jeter as Udesky
  • John Diehl as Cooper
  • Bruce A. Young as Nash
  • Laura Dern as Ellie
  • Taylor Nichols as Mark
  • Mark Harelik as Ben Hildebrand
  • Julio Oscar Mechoso as Enrique Cardoso
  • Blake Michael Bryan as Charlie
  • Sarah Danielle Madison as Cheryl
  • Linda Park as Hannah
  • Sonia Jackson as Symposium Leader
  • Bruce French as Science Reporter
  • Bernard Zilinskas as Male Student
  • Rona Benson as Female Student
  • Frank Clem as Man in Suit
  • Sean Coffey as Palentology Student (uncredited)
  • Karin M. Gaarder as Paleontology Student (uncredited)
  • Edward C. Gillow as University Professor at Symposium (uncredited)
  • Craig Richards as Billy's Bar Buddy (uncredited)
  • Brad Everett Young as Paleontology Student (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 2% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 120

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 300
4 to 61423
7 to 9714
10 to 1203
13 to 151037
16 to 18011
19 to 2101
22 to 2400
25 to 2706
28 to 3029
31 to 33417
34 to 3603
37 to 3910
40 to 4206
43 to 4502
46 to 4803
49 to 511751
52 to 541032
55 to 5722
58 to 6017
61 to 63411
64 to 6603
67 to 69325
70 to 72518
73 to 75517
76 to 7858
79 to 8114
82 to 8427
85 to 8706
88 to 9001
91 to 9300
94 to 9605
97 to 99312
100 to 102312
103 to 10517
106 to 10822
109 to 111826
112 to 11400
115 to 11721
118 to 12015

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, 22 are women's.

113 lines from women, 397 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

7 women and 16 men in the cast. 4 women and 12 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 9 of 520. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 29 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

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

Words spoken

Women speak 19% of the words (865), men 81% (3,585). Women have 22% 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 13 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 18% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Joe Johnston (man)
Written by
Jim Taylor (man), Peter Buchman (man), Alexander Payne (man)
Produced by
Larry Franco (man), Kathleen Kennedy (woman)
Shot by
Shelly Johnson (man)
Edited by
Robert Dalva (man)
Music by
Don Davis (man)
Production design by
Ed Verreaux (man)
Costumes by
Betsy Cox (woman)
Cast by
Wendy Washbrook (gender not listed), Nancy Foy (woman)

The crew, department by department

  • Other crew

    5 women, 34 men, 22 not listed

  • Art

    2 women, 9 men, 11 not listed

  • Production

    5 women, 9 men, 7 not listed

  • Sound

    3 women, 9 men, 8 not listed

  • Visual Effects

    0 women, 10 men, 9 not listed

  • Camera

    0 women, 5 men, 10 not listed

  • Costume & Make-Up

    3 women, 3 men, 2 not listed

  • Editing

    1 women, 3 men, 2 not listed

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit F: how old the stars were

Women: 35 on average. Men: 42 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Laura Dern 34, Téa Leoni 35

Men

Trevor Morgan 14, Alessandro Nivola 29, Taylor Nichols 42, Bruce A. Young 45, Michael Jeter 48, William H. Macy 51, John Diehl 51, Sam Neill 53

Exhibit G: the money

It made 4.0 times what it cost.

Budget
$93 million
Box office
$369 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 120 scenes and 520 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works

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