Passes the Bechdel test

Kajillionaire

Name: Kajillionaire
Released: 2020

2020. Directed by Miranda July, written by Miranda July.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
19 women characters. 20 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 40 scenes out of 102.
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.

The film

In Los Angeles, married Robert and Theresa Dyne and their only offspring, twenty-six year old daughter Old Dolio Dyne, are small time scam artists, their scams usually ones of opportunity rather than of any real forethought. Robert states that he prefers the small time nature of what they do rather than doing big scams to become proverbial "kajillionaires", it arguably more an excuse than the truth. This life is the only one that Old Dolio has ever known, her parents her entire life in she never having been properly socialized. Robert and Theresa treat Old Dolio as a partner rather than a daughter in they splitting everything three ways whether it be their take or their expenses. One of those expenses is rent, they, in having no money in their scams usually netting little, three months behind in where they live, an open office in a soap factory, one of their duties in a reduction in rent being to gather up and discard the liquefied soap bubbles that routinely seep over the wall from the factory into that office space. Regardless, they focus on needing to come up with that $1,500 imminently to prevent being evicted. In one of those scams that they believe will net them just the needed amount, Robert and Theresa meet a young woman named Melanie Whitacre. In the friendly and quite open nature of their discussion, Robert and Theresa tell Melanie what they do, she who seems amenable to joining "the family business" in she even proposing scams of her own involving connections with her job. Melanie being a fourth fundamentally changes the nature of the dynamics between the three Dynes.

Released: 25 Sep 2020
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Rated: R
IMDb: 6.4 / 10
Metascore: 78 / 100
Awards: 4 wins & 9 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Old Dolio 233 lines, woman
Melanie 202 lines, woman
Robert 167 lines, man
Theresa 107 lines, woman
Farida 24 lines, woman
Stovik 16 lines, man
Jenny 15 lines, woman
Sue 13 lines, woman
Abe 11 lines, man
Kelli 11 lines, woman

Full cast, 39 people

Evan Rachel Wood as Old Dolio
Debra Winger as Theresa
Gina Rodriguez as Melanie
Richard Jenkins as Robert
Patricia Belcher as Althea
Kim Estes as Victor
Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Jenny
Rachel Redleaf as Kelli
Randy Ryan as Kelli's Boyfriend
Mark Ivanir as Stovik
Blanca Araceli as Volunteer
Diana Maria Riva as Farida / Melanie's Mom (voice)
Betsy Baker as Baggage Claim Clerk
Michelle Gillette as Bartender
Susan James Berger as Sue
Adam Bartley as Jacuzzi Salesman
Michael Twaine as Abe
Andrew Hawkes as Man Pumping Gas
David Ury as Minimart Cashier
Matthew Downs as Man At Gas Station
Samantha Cardona as Waitress
Zachary Barton as Final Cashier
Jeffrey Nicholas Brown as Businessman (uncredited)
Tabitha Brownstone as Catholic Schoolgirl #2 (uncredited)
Ian Casselberry as The Leopard (uncredited)
Nikki Castillo as Catholic Schoolgirl #1 (uncredited)
Challen Cates as Med Spa Manager (uncredited)
Jason Catron as Real Business Man #2 (uncredited)
Madeleine Coghlan as Another Teenage Girl (uncredited)
Micah Cohen as Airplane Businessman (uncredited)
Matthew Foster as Father (uncredited)
Ben Konigsberg as Ben (uncredited)
Ethan Josh Lee as Another Son (uncredited)
Rebecca Lee as Another Daughter (uncredited)
Zena Leigh Logan as Normal Woman (uncredited)
Brandon Morales as Fancy Athletic Club Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Steve Park as Another Father (uncredited)
Wylie Small as Another Mom (uncredited)
Trent Walker as Dad (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 102

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	3	2
4 to 6	4	4
7 to 9	1	10
10 to 12	15	8
13 to 15	31	23
16 to 18	8	2
19 to 21	13	14
22 to 24	16	12
25 to 27	11	5
28 to 30	32	10
31 to 33	29	22
34 to 36	0	0
37 to 39	18	5
40 to 42	14	6
43 to 45	29	5
46 to 48	15	6
49 to 51	16	1
52 to 54	37	10
55 to 57	15	10
58 to 60	24	12
61 to 63	13	10
64 to 66	7	5
67 to 69	14	6
70 to 72	21	7
73 to 75	27	8
76 to 78	30	0
79 to 81	25	0
82 to 84	14	0
85 to 87	13	0
88 to 90	45	9
91 to 93	53	3
94 to 96	23	6
97 to 99	30	16
100 to 102	2	0

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.

THERESA: Cash. No - a money order. Twenty. OLD DOLIO: They have these at...I have a receipt that’ll... OLD DOLIO: “Toys and games, $12.99,” Target. Easy return.

THERESA: We won the Vitafusion giveaway under six names today. THERESA: And...we won the THERESA: Motor Trend Dodge Viper GT Sweepstakes. It’s a free visor and... THERESA: ...a 20oz sport water bottle.

OLD DOLIO: Just right now. KELLI: You only pay 500 a month? THERESA: But it leaks.

KELLI: Thanks. OLD DOLIO: What’s your name? KELLI: Kelli. What’s your name? OLD DOLIO: For the sign-up sheet.

THERESA: Why would it - why would anything take so long? OLD DOLIO: I couldn’t just - it was a class.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 73 are women's.

648 lines from women, 237 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

19 women and 18 men in the cast. 20 women and 12 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 11 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 70% of the words (6,023), men 30% (2,585). Women have 73% 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

5 of the 11 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 43% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Miranda July (woman)
Written by: Miranda July (woman)
Produced by: Youree Henley (man), Dede Gardner (woman), Jeremy Kleiner (man)
Shot by: Sebastian Winterø (man)
Edited by: Jennifer Vecchiarello (woman)
Music by: Emile Mosseri (man)
Production design by: Sam Lisenco (man)
Costumes by: Jennifer Johnson (woman)
Cast by: Mark Bennett (man)