Passes the Bechdel test

Lost in Space

Name: Lost in Space
Released: 1998

1998. Directed by Stephen Hopkins, written by Irwin Allen and Akiva Goldsman.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
7 women characters. 6 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 13 scenes out of 239.
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 the year 2058, the Earth will soon be uninhabitable after the irreversible effects of pollution and global warming! Professor John Robinson, lead scientist of the Jupiter 2 Mission, will lead his family to the habitable planet Alpha Prime to prep it for colonization. The Jupiter 2 is equipped with a hyperdrive that allows faster-than-light travel, which will eventually be employed to evacuate the citizens of Earth. However hypergates must be constructed on Earth and Alpha Prime to provide stable points of departure and arrival. Dr. Zachary Smith is bribed by a terrorist organization to sabotage the mission, and ends up an unwilling stowaway as the ship blasts off.

Released: 03 Apr 1998
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 5.3 / 10
Metascore: 43 / 100
Awards: 4 wins & 17 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

West 185 lines, man
John 151 lines, man
Smith 101 lines, man
Will 75 lines, man
Maureen 67 lines, woman
Penny 65 lines, woman
Judy 50 lines, woman
Robot 31 lines, man
Older Will 28 lines, man
Spider Smith 26 lines, man

Full cast, 21 people

William Hurt as Prof. John Robinson
Matt LeBlanc as Maj. Don West
Mimi Rogers as Dr. Maureen Robinson
Heather Graham as Dr. Judy Robinson
Gary Oldman as Dr. Zachary Smith
Lacey Chabert as Penny Robinson
Jack Johnson as Will Robinson
Jared Harris as Older Will Robinson
Mark Goddard as General
Lennie James as Jeb Walker
Marta Kristen as Reporter #1
June Lockhart as Principal Cartwright
Adam Sims as Lab Technician
Angela Cartwright as Reporter #2
John Sharian as Noah Freeman
Abigail Canton as Annie Tech
Richard Saperstein as Global Sedition attack pilot
Dick Tufeld as Rambler-Crane series Robot (voice)
Gary A. Hecker as Blarp (voice)
Edward Fox as Businessman
Kamay Lau as Space Cadet Reporter

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 5 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 8% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 239

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 5	0	2
6 to 10	0	4
11 to 15	0	2
16 to 20	0	3
21 to 25	0	3
26 to 30	0	3
31 to 35	0	8
36 to 40	0	2
41 to 45	4	4
46 to 50	13	13
51 to 55	0	32
56 to 60	3	15
61 to 65	9	13
66 to 70	0	4
71 to 75	0	5
76 to 80	0	2
81 to 85	0	5
86 to 90	0	9
91 to 95	13	27
96 to 100	12	25
101 to 105	0	11
106 to 110	5	6
111 to 115	2	14
116 to 120	3	16
121 to 125	8	26
126 to 130	6	17
131 to 135	4	14
136 to 140	6	10
141 to 145	2	7
146 to 150	1	8
151 to 155	2	8
156 to 160	5	21
161 to 165	0	11
166 to 170	0	4
171 to 175	0	3
176 to 180	9	28
181 to 185	26	27
186 to 190	9	28
191 to 195	8	26
196 to 200	7	15
201 to 205	11	56
206 to 210	3	31
211 to 215	3	32
216 to 220	2	9
221 to 225	2	1
226 to 230	4	19
231 to 235	0	9
236 to 239	9	10

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.

MAUREEN: Life support is at ten percent. Trying to bring secondary systems on line. It's not working. PENNY: Explosions rock the ship. Danger is everywhere, 'Yet the Space Captive is fearless as she... PENNY: I want to go home now.

PENNY: I'm on it. MAUREEN: We trusted you.

MAUREEN: Judy? Baby? JUDY: You should try to look less worried. It has a tendency to spook the patients.

PENNY: I think I've got it. MAUREEN: That's strange. PENNY: Those scales are giving off heat.

MAUREEN: Life Sciences, still breathing. JUDY: Mission medical, I'm alive.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 23 are women's.

191 lines from women, 648 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

7 women and 12 men in the cast. 6 women and 13 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 51 of 912. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 54 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 22% of the words (1,841), men 78% (6,381). Women have 23% 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

4 of the 16 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 20% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Stephen Hopkins (man)
Written by: Akiva Goldsman (man), Irwin Allen (man)
Produced by: Carla Fry (woman), Mark W. Koch (man), Akiva Goldsman (man), Stephen Hopkins (man)
Shot by: Peter Levy (man)
Edited by: Ray Lovejoy (man)
Music by: Bruce Broughton (man)
Production design by: Norman Garwood (man)
Costumes by: Vin Burnham (woman), Robert Bell (gender not listed)
Cast by: Allison Cowitt (woman), Mike Fenton (man), Mary Selway (woman)