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Knight and Day

2010. Directed by James Mangold, written by Patrick O'Neill.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    8 women characters. 4 of them speak.
  2. Yes 2. Who talk to each other
    In 1 scene out of 102.
  3. Yes 3. About something besides a man
    In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

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

Poster for Knight and Day

The film

Eager to attend her sister April's wedding, commitment-shy tomboy and classic car enthusiast June Havens catches a plane to Boston. But sometimes, life is like a movie; out of nowhere, June encounters Roy Miller, a dashing stranger with a killer sense of humour. And just like that, June's life will never be the same again. After all, the unstoppable man of intrigue has plunged June into a thrilling world filled with high-speed car chases, intense hand-to-hand combat, and lethal stray bullets. As dangerous adversaries are hot on their trail, determined to retrieve a state-of-the-art device worth millions, pressing questions arise. Who is this Roy Miller guy? Is he truly one of the good guys? Above all, could he be "The One"?

Released
23 Jun 2010
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Rated
PG-13
IMDb
6.3 / 10
Metascore
46 / 100
Awards
3 nominations total
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. June 397 lines, woman
  2. Milner 339 lines, man
  3. Ackerman 37 lines
  4. Andrew 27 lines
  5. Director George 27 lines, woman
  6. Man 17 lines, man
  7. Mr. Hearn 14 lines, man
  8. Braces 12 lines, man
  9. Russo 12 lines
  10. June'S Mom 11 lines, woman
Full cast, 38 people
  • Tom Cruise as Roy Miller
  • Cameron Diaz as June Havens
  • Peter Sarsgaard as Fitzgerald
  • Viola Davis as CIA Director Isabel George
  • Jordi Mollà as Antonio Quintana
  • Paul Dano as Simon Feck
  • Maggie Grace as April Havens
  • Marc Blucas as Rodney Burris
  • Celia Weston as Molly Knight
  • Falk Hentschel as Bernhard
  • Lennie Loftin as Braces
  • Rich Manley as Danny
  • Dale Dye as Frank Knight
  • Gal Gadot as Naomi
  • Jack A. O'Connell as Wilmer
  • Trevor Loomis as Eduardo
  • Nilaja Sun as Allison
  • Taylor Treadwell as Gate Agent
  • Christian Finnegan as Ticket Agent
  • Nicholas Art as Kid at Airport
  • Brian Dykstra as TSA Officer
  • Brian Tarantina as Scrap Yard Man
  • Natasha Paczkowski as Petra The Tailor
  • Jerrell Lee Wesley as Fireman Paul
  • Matthew Lawler as Passerby Agent
  • Ronn Surels as Flight Attendant
  • Eric Robert Bradshaw Bennett as 18 Wheeler Driver
  • Scott Wahle as Newscaster
  • Sara Jean Underwood as Newscaster #2
  • Helen L. Welsh as Neighbor
  • King Orba as Smuggler
  • Michael Enright as Engineer
  • Adam Gregor as Train Cook
  • Mitch E. Bowan as Medivac EMT
  • Gerald T. Carbajal as Doctor in Hallway
  • Arnold Chon as Gunman with Shotgun (uncredited)
  • Tony Sagastizado I as Bull Runner (uncredited)
  • Stephen Radochia as Special Agent (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 14% 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
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 366
4 to 610
7 to 93411
10 to 1214
13 to 1520
16 to 18268
19 to 211510
22 to 2450
25 to 2711
28 to 303444
31 to 3310
34 to 36192
37 to 39211
40 to 4220
43 to 451118
46 to 482329
49 to 511424
52 to 541314
55 to 5710
58 to 602428
61 to 631429
64 to 66114
67 to 692726
70 to 7204
73 to 75480
76 to 781922
79 to 811715
82 to 8473
85 to 8780
88 to 9021
91 to 932924
94 to 9600
97 to 991217
100 to 1022528

The evidence

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

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Exhibit A: the passing scene

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
SO-SOMETHING WOMAN: It's already broken. JUNE: That's too bad. SO-SOMETHING WOMAN: Eh, it was good while it lasted. So where'd you go? JUNE: What? Oh. Italy. And some tropical island ... somewhere.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 53 are women's.

444 lines from women, 393 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

8 women and 21 men in the cast. 4 women and 1 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 2 of 971. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 14 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

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

Words spoken

Women speak 46% of the words (3,519), men 54% (4,194). Women have 53% 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

4 of the 14 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 24% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
James Mangold (man)
Written by
Patrick O'Neill (man), James Mangold (man)
Produced by
Steve Pink (man), Cathy Konrad (woman), Todd Garner (man)
Shot by
Phedon Papamichael (man)
Edited by
Quincy Z. Gunderson (man), Michael McCusker (man)
Music by
John Powell (man)
Production design by
Andrew Menzies (man)
Cast by
Sarah Katzman (woman), Donna DeSeta (woman), Lisa Beach (woman)

The crew, department by department

  • Other crew

    7 women, 30 men, 5 not listed

  • Production

    9 women, 12 men, 4 not listed

  • Sound

    1 women, 20 men, 1 not listed

  • Art

    2 women, 8 men, 7 not listed

  • Costume & Make-Up

    7 women, 1 men, 4 not listed

  • Visual Effects

    1 women, 4 men, 6 not listed

  • Camera

    0 women, 7 men, 2 not listed

  • Directing

    2 women, 3 men

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 41 on average. Men: 36 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Maggie Grace 26, Cameron Diaz 37, Viola Davis 44, Celia Weston 58

Men

Paul Dano 25, Falk Hentschel 25, Marc Blucas 38, Peter Sarsgaard 39, Jordi Mollà 41, Tom Cruise 47

Exhibit H: the money

It made 2.2 times what it cost.

Budget
$117 million
Box office
$262 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 102 scenes and 971 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works

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