Passes the Bechdel test

Juror #2

Name: Juror #2
Released: 2024

2024. Directed by Clint Eastwood, written by Jonathan A. Abrams.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
16 women characters. 17 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 7 scenes out of 119.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 2 out of 3.

The film

Justin, whose wife is about to give birth to their first child, is selected on the jury for a murder trial. At a point in the trial he realises he may have been responsible for the death. This would exonerate the accused but incriminate him. He now walks a fine line between these two outcomes.

Released: 20 Dec 2024
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 7 / 10
Metascore: 72 / 100
Awards: 4 wins & 15 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Justin 210 lines, man
Faith 139 lines, woman
Resnick 78 lines, man
Allison 73 lines, woman
The Judge 47 lines
Marcus 45 lines, man
Harold 41 lines, man
Sythe 37 lines, man
Yolanda 33 lines, woman
Denice 32 lines, woman

Full cast, 36 people

Nicholas Hoult as Justin Kemp
Toni Collette as Faith Killebrew
J.K. Simmons as Harold
Chris Messina as Eric Resnick
Gabriel Basso as James Michael Sythe
Zoey Deutch as Allison Crewson
Cedric Yarbrough as Marcus
Leslie Bibb as Denice Aldworth
Kiefer Sutherland as Larry Lasker
Amy Aquino as Judge Thelma Hollub
Adrienne C. Moore as Yolanda
Megan Mieduch as Allison's Friend
Melanie Harrison as Campaign Manager (VO) (voice)
Drew Scheid as Brody
Hedy Nasser as Courtney
Phil Biedron as Vince
Bria Brimmer as Bailiff Wood
Chikako Fukuyama as Keiko
Zele Avradopoulos as Irene
Onix Serrano as Eli
Jason Coviello as Luke
Rebecca Koon as Nellie
Francesca Eastwood as Kendall Carter
KateLynn E. Newberry as Hideaway Bartender
Rachel Walters as Woman from Bar
Scott Alan Smith as Custodian
Javier Vazquez Jr. as Hiker
Kurt Yue as Medical Examiner
Tom Thon as Elderly Man
RaVal Davis as Reporter
Gabriel Butler as Oliver
Kevin Saunders as Burly Guy
Luciano Antonino as Fraternity Guy
Lou Bosch as Coffee Cart Attendant
Kellen Boyle as Faith's Assistant
Vincent Minutella as Groundskeeper

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 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 119

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	6	6
4 to 6	5	9
7 to 9	7	6
10 to 12	9	8
13 to 15	23	20
16 to 18	2	0
19 to 21	2	1
22 to 24	4	3
25 to 27	0	13
28 to 30	12	12
31 to 33	8	4
34 to 36	7	4
37 to 39	2	12
40 to 42	8	10
43 to 45	2	21
46 to 48	0	16
49 to 51	17	25
52 to 54	42	54
55 to 57	6	2
58 to 60	23	29
61 to 63	5	33
64 to 66	17	16
67 to 69	21	20
70 to 72	4	1
73 to 75	36	65
76 to 78	27	13
79 to 81	22	23
82 to 84	5	10
85 to 87	3	0
88 to 90	3	0
91 to 93	3	13
94 to 96	3	5
97 to 99	2	0
100 to 102	0	0
103 to 105	1	0
106 to 108	0	7
109 to 111	3	4
112 to 114	17	21
115 to 117	1	5
118 to 119	4	6

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.

FAITH: Do you work, Mrs. Aldworth? DENICE: I had the toughest job there is. Raised two kids and sent them to college. FAITH: Congratulations. Have you ever served on a jury before? DENICE: Twice. Both were mistrials.

YOLANDA: Amen. DENICE: That's... nine for "guilty." How 'bout you?

FAITH: ... We cannot break the law. We can only break ourselves of the law... BAILIFF: No decision, yet. We are breaking for the weekend. FAITH: You're kidding. BAILIFF: You never know what a dozen strangers are gonna do...

IRENE: And watching "Dateline." DENICE: Oh, great Sherlock Holmes... IRENE: Well burn through enough cases, you start to see patterns. But I leave the detective work to the forum warriors.

YOLANDA: No it's not. You're wearing people down. Talking loud and saying nothing. You go over anything enough times, you'll start to question it. COURTNEY: Which shoes to wear... YOLANDA: Exactly. We've got all these theories... but no new evidence.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 42 are women's.

362 lines from women, 497 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

16 women and 19 men in the cast. 17 women and 20 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 2 of 928. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 43 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 38% of the words (3,154), men 62% (5,248). Women have 42% 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

Two women

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

1 of the 15 people in these jobs is a woman. Across the whole crew, 24% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Clint Eastwood (man)
Written by: Jonathan A. Abrams (man), Clint Eastwood (man)
Produced by: Matt Skiena (gender not listed), Jessica Meier (gender not listed), Tim Moore (man), Clint Eastwood (man), Adam Goodman (man)
Shot by: Yves Bélanger (man)
Edited by: Joel Cox (man), David S. Cox (man)
Music by: Mark Mancina (man)
Production design by: Ronald R. Reiss (man)
Costumes by: Deborah Hopper (woman)
Cast by: Geoffrey Miclat (gender not listed)