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Little Athens

2005. Directed by Tom Zuber, written by Jeff Zuber and Tom Zuber.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    7 women characters. 4 of them speak.
  2. Yes 2. Who talk to each other
    In 6 scenes out of 154.
  3. Yes 3. About something besides a man
    In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

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Poster for Little Athens

The film

A day in Athens, Arizona, as teens and twenty-somethings navigate life without a compass. Jimmy has gambling debts and sees a chance to steal and sell a dead-man's stash of drugs. The corpse's cousin smells a rat. Jessica, who is babysitting, abandons her charge to seek someone to defend her from a boyfriend angry that he's caught an STD. Corey is responsible for his teen sister, and he and his pal Pedro have been evicted, so they plot to steal a car, sell it, and get back in their apartment. Heather, an EMT, thinks her cop boyfriend is cheating, and she confides in her best friend. There's a party that night where all comes to a head. Guns and a baseball bat: is violence at hand?

Released
01 Jun 2005
Genres
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Rated
R
IMDb
5.4 / 10
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Jessica 160 lines, woman
  2. Jimmy 122 lines, man
  3. Heather 101 lines, woman
  4. Corey 98 lines, man
  5. Pedro 78 lines, man
  6. Allison 75 lines, woman
  7. Carlos 60 lines, man
  8. Aaron 52 lines, man
  9. Carter 40 lines, man
  10. Emily 36 lines
Full cast, 27 people
  • John Patrick Amedori as Jimmy
  • Shawn Hatosy as Carter
  • Michelle Horn as Emilie
  • Erica Leerhsen as Heather
  • DJ Qualls as Cory
  • Rachel Miner as Allison
  • Eric Szmanda as Derek
  • Jorge Garcia as Pedro
  • Jill Ritchie as Jessica
  • Michael Peña as Carlos
  • Kenny Morrison as Aaron
  • Leonardo Nam as Kwon
  • R.J. Knoll as Brad
  • Forrest Landis as Kevin
  • Esteban Powell as Troy
  • Mary-Pat Green as Mrs. Carlson
  • Tory Kittles as Sinjin
  • Jasmine Jessica Anthony as Katie Kinney
  • Jeff Doucette as Mr. Carson
  • Robert Baker as Berubi
  • Jonathan Dankner as Matt
  • Megan Duffy as Barnes' Girlfriend
  • Tish Hicks as Jina
  • Aldis Hodge as Pitt
  • Michael Dean Jacobs as Harry
  • Justin Shilton as Barnes
  • Jason Weissbrod as Rob

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 4 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 154

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 400
5 to 8110
9 to 12032
13 to 16120
17 to 202337
21 to 2476
25 to 2864
29 to 322022
33 to 361410
37 to 40828
41 to 4403
45 to 48147
49 to 521732
53 to 56933
57 to 60037
61 to 641110
65 to 68034
69 to 72718
73 to 761926
77 to 802511
81 to 84106
85 to 88107
89 to 922335
93 to 96433
97 to 100724
101 to 1043730
105 to 108822
109 to 112220
113 to 11692
117 to 1201118
121 to 124016
125 to 1283737
129 to 1321857
133 to 136619
137 to 14029
141 to 144415
145 to 14803
149 to 15221
153 to 15422

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.
HEATHER: You hear about your ex? ALLISON: Jerry?
HEATHER: We'll get there. ALLISON: You don't even know for sure if she slept with Steve! HEATHER: Listen, fuck that slut, okay?! She can fucking rot in hell! I'm not rushing for her slut ass! ALLISON: Heather, c'mon, she's out cold! We gotta hurry!
KATIE: Hello, this is Katie Kinney! JESSICA: Katie, it's Jessica. KATIE: Where are you? JESSICA: Have you eaten?
KATIE: Are we going to have TV dinners all weekend? JESSICA: No. I promise. You want some milk? KATIE: Can I have ice-tea? JESSICA: Of course. Can you make her some ice-tea?
JESSICA: What are you doing? KATIE: Watching TV. JESSICA: Did your parents call? KATIE: Yeah. I told them you were in the shower.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 34 are women's.

382 lines from women, 746 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

7 women and 19 men in the cast. 4 women and 20 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 66 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

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

Words spoken

Women speak 33% of the words (2,944), men 67% (5,980). Women have 34% 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

None of the 1 people in these jobs are women.

Directed by
Tom Zuber (gender not listed)

The crew, department by department

  • Directing

    0 women, 0 men, 1 not listed

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 26 on average. Men: 27 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Michelle Horn 18, Rachel Miner 24, Erica Leerhsen 29, Jill Ritchie 31

Men

John Patrick Amedori 18, DJ Qualls 26, Shawn Hatosy 29, Eric Szmanda 29, Michael Peña 29, Jorge Garcia 32

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 154 scenes and 1,218 lines of dialogue. How the test works

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