Passes the Bechdel test

Miller's Girl

Name: Miller's Girl
Released: 2024

2024. Directed by Jade Halley Bartlett, written by Jade Halley Bartlett.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
5 women characters. 4 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 8 scenes out of 67.
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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The film

A talented young writer embarks on a creative odyssey when her teacher assigns a project that entangles them both in an increasingly complex web. As lines blur and their lives intertwine, professor and protégé must confront their darkest selves while straining to preserve their individual sense of purpose and the things they hold most dear.

Released: 26 Jan 2024
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Rated: R
IMDb: 5.2 / 10
Metascore: 41 / 100
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Jonathan 399 lines, man
Cairo 331 lines, woman
Winnie 181 lines, woman
Boris 160 lines, man
Beatrice 128 lines, woman
Joyce 20 lines, woman
Jock 9 lines
Cairo'S Mom 3 lines, woman
Cairo/Jonathan 1 lines

Full cast, 8 people

Jenna Ortega as Cairo Sweet
Martin Freeman as Jonathan Miller
Bashir Salahuddin as Boris Fillmore
Gideon Adlon as Winnie Black
Dagmara Dominczyk as Beatrice June Harker
Christine Adams as Joyce Manner
Augustine Hargrave as Elliot
Elyssa Samsel as Suzette

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 1% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 67

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 2	0	0
3 to 4	55	66
5 to 6	11	10
7 to 8	27	52
9 to 10	0	0
11 to 12	20	34
13 to 14	27	32
15 to 16	19	16
17 to 18	0	0
19 to 20	15	0
21 to 22	29	47
23 to 24	67	11
25 to 26	22	19
27 to 28	8	8
29 to 30	49	24
31 to 32	19	20
33 to 34	0	0
35 to 36	3	2
37 to 38	0	0
39 to 40	0	0
41 to 42	0	0
43 to 44	0	0
45 to 46	36	34
47 to 48	91	23
49 to 50	6	3
51 to 52	13	83
53 to 54	7	7
55 to 56	61	48
57 to 58	55	1
59 to 60	3	1
61 to 62	5	3
63 to 64	5	4
65 to 66	9	11
67 to 67	1	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.

CAIRO: I party hard. WINNIE: I like this whole sweater without a shirt under it business. I like it very much.

WINNIE: Boring. CAIRO: Important. WINNIE: Please. Censorship is dead. It can't exist with the accessibility of today's technology.

WINNIE: Yeah, do you? CAIRO: Censorship distracts us from what's important. If we don't have ideas, then we won't have any idea what's going on.

WINNIE: You want anything? CAIRO: A pack of cigarettes. Marlboros. WINNIE: Okay, do you want anything for real? CAIRO: That's what I want.

BEATRICE: This isn't a five star restaurant, honey. What is the hold up? WINNIE: Some stupid fuck up in the kitchen that was entirely preventable. Can I get y'all anything else while you wait? BEATRICE: Another Makers. WINNIE: You got it. Coach?

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 54 are women's.

663 lines from women, 559 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

5 women and 2 men in the cast. 4 women and 2 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 2 of 1,232. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 72 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 54% of the words (6,621), men 46% (5,667).

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

7 of the 12 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 36% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Jade Halley Bartlett (woman)
Written by: Jade Halley Bartlett (woman)
Produced by: Mary-Margaret Kunze (woman), Seth Rogen (man), Evan Goldberg (man), James Weaver (man), Josh Fagen (man)
Shot by: Daniel Brothers (man)
Edited by: Vanara Taing (woman)
Music by: Elyssa Samsel (woman)
Production design by: Cheyenne Ford (woman)
Costumes by: Lauren Bott (woman)