Passes the Bechdel test

Mini's First Time

Name: Mini's First Time
Released: 2006

2006. Directed by Nick Guthe, written by Nick Guthe.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
11 women characters. 8 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 8 scenes out of 163.
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

Desperate to be free from her drunken, unloving mother Diane, the beautiful, scheming young Mini seduces her stepfather Martin and soon convinces him to join her in a sadistic scheme to have Diane declared insane. But their conspiracy soon escalates to murder and when John Garson, a young detective starts investigating, Martin and Mini begin to turn on each other.

Released: 14 Jul 2006
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Rated: R
IMDb: 5.8 / 10
Metascore: 45 / 100
Awards: 1 win
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Mini 457 lines, woman
Martin 204 lines, man
Diane 81 lines, woman
Garson 62 lines, man
Rudell 18 lines, man
Male Voice 17 lines
Artin 10 lines
Ini 10 lines
Carlos 8 lines, man
Host 7 lines, man

Full cast, 28 people

Alec Baldwin as Martin Tennan
Nikki Reed as Minerva 'Mini' Droggs
Jeff Goldblum as Mike Rudell
Luke Wilson as Det. Dwight Garson
Joe Egender as Jimmy
Carrie-Anne Moss as Diane Droggs Tennan
Svetlana Metkina as Jelena
David Shatraw as Husband #1
Sprague Grayden as Kayla
Rick Fox as Fabrizio
Michael Laskin as Irv Flachsman
Orlando Seale as Carlos
Jerry Giles as Promise Keeper
Jean St. James as Helga Hauptführer
Artie Baxter as Troy
Lewis Tan as Skatepunk #2
Heidi Ferrer as Jennifer
Britt Morrow as Lois
Andrea Lwin as Jupiter Courier Clerk
Nana Visitor as Principal Patty Andrews
Courtney Thomas as Becky
Hailey Bright as Teenage Girl (uncredited)
Victoria Chalaya as Mini's Schoolmate (uncredited)
RaMona Fleetwood as Drum Circle (uncredited)
Marjorie Eber as Club Dancer (uncredited)
Kathleen LaGue as Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Joel McHale as Host
David Andriole as Charles Mather

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 163

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 4	18	0
5 to 8	37	8
9 to 12	7	0
13 to 16	9	0
17 to 20	13	7
21 to 24	6	0
25 to 28	7	0
29 to 32	4	0
33 to 36	4	0
37 to 40	13	6
41 to 44	11	5
45 to 48	5	2
49 to 52	4	0
53 to 56	15	0
57 to 60	19	13
61 to 64	11	1
65 to 68	20	7
69 to 72	25	9
73 to 76	6	0
77 to 80	19	5
81 to 84	24	3
85 to 88	12	0
89 to 92	5	0
93 to 96	24	17
97 to 100	11	5
101 to 104	2	1
105 to 108	5	39
109 to 112	8	4
113 to 116	18	11
117 to 120	21	12
121 to 124	23	46
125 to 128	11	7
129 to 132	2	11
133 to 136	10	5
137 to 140	14	11
141 to 144	6	1
145 to 148	17	20
149 to 152	16	6
153 to 156	39	38
157 to 160	10	6
161 to 163	31	19

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.

MINI: See, to understand me, you need to understand that life, in my opinion, is all about new experiences. "Firsts" is what I call them. MINI: Somewhere around fourteen, when I had my first...rhymes with duck, I realized that the goal of life, any life, should be to cram as many "fi… DIANE: What the hell are you doing? I said wait until- She's not even here, you morons!

DIANE: Do you want to live in this shit hole your whole life? DIANE: Then stay in your fucking room until they leave. Got it? MINI: So it pretty much went on like that until...

DIANE: Oh...wha- what are you doing here? DIANE: Did you have fun, dear? MINI: Yeah, I turned two tricks and went down on a dyke cop. DIANE: Thass nice...

DIANE: Yeah, in the fucking bowl by the fucking door where I always fucking put them! MINI: Well, uh, you were kinda out of it last night. DIANE: No, I wasn't! I had one drink with Marie, one!

MINI: Needless to say, word of the L'incidént de Anton spread quickly through the community. MINI: Do you think she'll press charges? DIANE: Are you kidding? She should get twenty to life! When I told Margo and Penny about her little stunt, they both said they'd have ripped her ey…

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 63 are women's.

562 lines from women, 325 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

11 women and 13 men in the cast. 8 women and 12 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 28 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 68% of the words (7,228), men 32% (3,333). Women have 63% of the lines, so their lines run longer 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

2 of the 14 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 22% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Nick Güthe (man)
Written by: Nick Güthe (man)
Produced by: Evan Astrowsky (man), Edward Bass (man), Dana Brunetti (man), Kevin Spacey (man)
Shot by: Dan Stoloff (man)
Edited by: Michael Ruscio (man), Alan Cody (man)
Music by: Cato (gender not listed)
Production design by: Linda Burton (woman)
Costumes by: Johanna Argan (woman)
Cast by: Chadwick Struck (man), Rick Montgomery (man)