Fails the Bechdel test
Lucky Number Slevin
2006. Directed by Paul McGuigan, written by Jason Smilovic.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
0 / 3
Fails
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No
1. At least two women
Fewer than two women characters. -
No
2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.
The film
In an airport waiting room, a man in a wheelchair tells a stranger a story about a fixed horse race in 1979 that resulted in a family's deaths. In Manhattan, two bookies and the son of a Mob boss die. A young man just out of the shower answers the door to a neighbor woman and explains that he's visiting, has had a bad week, including being mugged, and doesn't know where his pal, who lives there, is. The neighbor is chatty; she's a coroner. Two thugs arrive and, believing the visitor to be the guy who lives there, take him to see the boss with the dead son, who tells him to kill the son of his Mob rival. Mistaken identity? What connects the threads? Cops are watching.
- Released
- 07 Apr 2006
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7.7 / 10
- Metascore
- 53 / 100
- Awards
- 5 wins & 4 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Slevin 298 lines, man
- Lindsey 122 lines, woman
- The Boss 89 lines, man
- Brikowski 47 lines, man
- Sloe 41 lines, man
- Elvis 31 lines, man
- Max 24 lines, man
- Shlomo 23 lines, man
- Marty 22 lines, man
- Smith 22 lines
Full cast, 28 people
- Josh Hartnett as Slevin
- Morgan Freeman as The Boss
- Ben Kingsley as The Rabbi
- Lucy Liu as Lindsey
- Bruce Willis as Mr. Goodkat
- Stanley Tucci as Det. Brikowski
- Mykelti Williamson as Sloe
- Peter Outerbridge as Dumbrowski
- Michael Rubenfeld as Yitzchok
- Kevin Chamberlin as Marty
- Dorian Missick as Elvis
- Scott Gibson as Max
- Corey Stoll as Saul
- Robert Forster as Murphy
- Sam Jaeger as Nick Fisher
- Danny Aiello as Roth
- Jennifer Miller as Slevin's Girlfriend
- Janet Lane as Gloria (Blondie)
- Oliver Davis as Henry
- Sebastien Roberts as The Guy
- Darren Marsman as Slim Hopkins
- Gerry Mendicino as Benny Begin
- Matthew G. Taylor as Featured (uncredited)
- Shira Leigh as Hottie
- Daniel Kash as Bodyguard #1
- Dmitry Chepovetsky as Bodyguard #2
- Nicholas Rice as Doc
- Howard Jerome as Abe
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 9% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 162
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 | 0 | 13 |
| 5 to 8 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 to 12 | 0 | 45 |
| 13 to 16 | 0 | 5 |
| 17 to 20 | 0 | 5 |
| 21 to 24 | 0 | 1 |
| 25 to 28 | 0 | 1 |
| 29 to 32 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 to 36 | 0 | 9 |
| 37 to 40 | 0 | 18 |
| 41 to 44 | 3 | 14 |
| 45 to 48 | 1 | 14 |
| 49 to 52 | 0 | 4 |
| 53 to 56 | 0 | 8 |
| 57 to 60 | 28 | 102 |
| 61 to 64 | 0 | 37 |
| 65 to 68 | 5 | 54 |
| 69 to 72 | 4 | 38 |
| 73 to 76 | 8 | 37 |
| 77 to 80 | 0 | 35 |
| 81 to 84 | 0 | 32 |
| 85 to 88 | 2 | 50 |
| 89 to 92 | 11 | 14 |
| 93 to 96 | 0 | 3 |
| 97 to 100 | 0 | 4 |
| 101 to 104 | 0 | 19 |
| 105 to 108 | 18 | 21 |
| 109 to 112 | 2 | 28 |
| 113 to 116 | 0 | 2 |
| 117 to 120 | 0 | 8 |
| 121 to 124 | 0 | 4 |
| 125 to 128 | 7 | 8 |
| 129 to 132 | 0 | 22 |
| 133 to 136 | 8 | 15 |
| 137 to 140 | 1 | 4 |
| 141 to 144 | 0 | 8 |
| 145 to 148 | 0 | 10 |
| 149 to 152 | 0 | 2 |
| 153 to 156 | 0 | 7 |
| 157 to 160 | 4 | 7 |
| 161 to 162 | 23 | 19 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 15 are women's.
125 lines from women, 731 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
4 women and 24 men in the cast. 1 women and 21 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 154 of 937.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 156 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 13% of the words (1,340), men 87% (8,876). Women have 15% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
Exhibit D: 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
0
Two men
44
Exhibit E: behind the camera
2 of the 16 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 42% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Paul McGuigan (man)
- Written by
- Jason Smilovic (man)
- Produced by
- Christopher Eberts (man), Andreas Grosch (man), Kia Jam (man), Robert Kravis (man), Tyler Mitchell (gender not listed), Anthony Rhulen (man) and 1 more
- Shot by
- Peter Sova (man)
- Edited by
- Andrew Hulme (man)
- Music by
- J. Ralph (man)
- Production design by
- François Séguin (man)
- Costumes by
- Odette Gadoury (gender not listed)
- Cast by
- Deborah Aquila (woman), Tricia Wood (woman)
The crew, department by department
-
Production
13 women, 11 men, 24 not listed
-
Other crew
2 women, 6 men, 20 not listed
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Art
5 women, 2 men, 15 not listed
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Sound
4 women, 8 men, 8 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
4 women, 1 men, 14 not listed
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Camera
1 women, 5 men, 7 not listed
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Directing
1 women, 4 men, 4 not listed
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Visual Effects
0 women, 2 men, 5 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 37 on average. Men: 45 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Lucy Liu 37
Men
Josh Hartnett 27, Michael Rubenfeld 27, Peter Outerbridge 39, Kevin Chamberlin 42, Stanley Tucci 45, Mykelti Williamson 48, Bruce Willis 50, Ben Kingsley 62, Morgan Freeman 68
Exhibit G: the money
It made 2.1 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $27 million
- Box office
- $56.3 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 162 scenes and 937 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
