Fails the Bechdel test

Minority Report

Name: Minority Report
Released: 2002

2002. Directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Scott Frank and Jon Cohen and Philip K. Dick.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

2 / 3

Fails

Yes 1. At least two women
44 women characters. 2 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
Women do talk to each other.
No 3. About something besides a man
Every conversation between women that our parser found mentions a man.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.

The film

In the year 2054 A.D. crime is virtually eliminated from Washington D.C. thanks to an elite law enforcing squad "Precrime". They use three gifted humans (called "Pre-Cogs") with special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand. John Anderton heads Precrime and believes the system's flawlessness steadfastly. However one day the Pre-Cogs predict that Anderton will commit a murder himself in the next 36 hours. Worse, Anderton doesn't even know the victim. He decides to get to the mystery's core by finding out the 'minority report' which means the prediction of the female Pre-Cog Agatha that "might" tell a different story and prove Anderton innocent.

Released: 21 Jun 2002
Genres: Action, Crime, Mystery
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 7.6 / 10
Metascore: 80 / 100
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 20 wins & 91 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Anderson 207 lines, man
Witwer 120 lines, man
Lisa 78 lines, woman
Rose 32 lines, woman
Doc 15 lines
Dr. Resfield 14 lines, man
Frank D'Ignazio 14 lines
Lieutenant Glaser 14 lines, man
Senator Malcolm 14 lines, man
Female 13 lines, woman

Full cast, 108 people

Tom Cruise as Chief John Anderton
Colin Farrell as Danny Witwer
Samantha Morton as Agatha
Max von Sydow as Director Lamar Burgess
Lois Smith as Dr. Iris Hineman
Peter Stormare as Dr. Solomon Eddie
Tim Blake Nelson as Gideon
Steve Harris as Jad
Kathryn Morris as Lara Clarke
Mike Binder as Leo Crow
Daniel London as Wally the Caretaker
Neal McDonough as Fletcher
Jessica Capshaw as Evanna
Patrick Kilpatrick as Knott
Jessica Harper as Anne Lively
Ashley Crow as Sarah Marks
Arye Gross as Howard Marks
Richard Coca as Pre-Crime Cop
Keith Campbell as Pre-Crime Cop
Kirk B.R. Woller as Pre-Crime Cop
Klea Scott as Pre-Crime Cop
Frank Grillo as Pre-Crime Cop
Anna Maria Horsford as Casey
Sarah Simmons as Lamar Burgess' Secretary
Eugene Osment as Jad's Technician
James Henderson as Office Worker
Vené L. Arcoraci as Office Worker
Erica Ford as Employee
Keith Flippen as Tour Guide
Nathan Taylor as Kid Tourist
Radmar Agana Jao as Technician
Karina Logue as Technician
Elizabeth Anne Smith as Technician
Victoria Garcia-Kelleher as Technician
Jim Rash as Technician
Stephen Ramsey as Jucket - Agent #1
Tom Choi as Paymen - Agent #2
Tom Whitenight as Price - Agent #3
William Morts as Foley - Agent #4
Michael Dickman as Arthur
Matthew Dickman as Dashiell
George D. Wallace as Chief Justice Pollard
Ann Ryerson as Dr. Katherine James
Tyler Patrick Jones as Older Sean
Dominic Scott Kay as Younger Sean
Joel Gretsch as Donald Doobin
Bertell Lawrence as John Doe
Jason Antoon as Rufus Riley at Cyber Parlor
William Mesnik as Cyber Parlor Customer
Scott Frank as Conceited Customer
Severin Wunderman as Skiing Customer
Max Trumpower as Homeless Person
Allie Raye as Hamburger Mom
Rocael Leiva as Hamburger Dad
Nicholas Edwin Barb as Homework Boy
Catfish Bates as Tenement Snitch
Caroline Lagerfelt as Greta Van Eyck
Danny Parker-Lopes as Man
Vanessa Cedotal as Woman
Katy Boyer as Mother
Adrianna Kamosa as Child
Kari Gordon as Child
Elizabeth Kamosa as Child
Raquel Gordon as Child
Laurel Kamosa as Child
Fiona Hale as Old Woman
Pamela Roberts as Violent Wife
Clement Blake as Husband
Jerry Perchesky as Grandfather
Victor Raider-Wexler as Attorney General Nash
Nancy Linehan Charles as Celeste Burgess
Nadia Axakowsky as Reporter
Dude Walker as Reporter
Tony Hill as Reporter
Drakeel Burns as Reporter
William Mapother as Hotel Clerk
Morgan Hasson as Paperboy
Andrew Sandler as Marks' Son
Bonnie Morgan as Contortionist
Kathi Copeland as Murder Bystander
Ana Maria Quintana as Murder Bystander
Lucille M. Oliver as Murder Bystander
Gene Wheeler as Murder Bystander
Tonya Ivey as Gap Girl
David Stifel as Lycon - Seller of Black Inhalers
Kurt Sinclair as Adulation #1
Rebecca Ritz as Adulation #2
Beverly Morgan as Adulation #3
John Bennett as Adulation #4
Maureen Dunn as Adulation #5
Ron Ulstad as Adulation #6
Blake Bashoff as Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
David Doty as Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
Gina Gallego as Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
David Hornsby as Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
Anne Judson-Yager as Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
Meredith Monroe as Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
Benita Krista Nall as Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
Shannon O'Hurley as Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
Jorge-Luis Pallo as Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
Elizabeth Payne as Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
Ethan Sherman as Revo Sunglass Model
Jarah Mariano as AMEX Polynesian Woman
Miles Dinsmoor as Guinness Man
Vanessa Asbert as Bulgari Model
Paul Thomas Anderson as Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Cameron Crowe as Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Cameron Diaz as Bus Passenger (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 16% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 146

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 4	4	4
5 to 8	4	13
9 to 12	3	18
13 to 16	0	13
17 to 20	5	63
21 to 24	0	19
25 to 28	0	3
29 to 32	9	26
33 to 36	15	30
37 to 40	0	0
41 to 44	0	2
45 to 48	0	19
49 to 52	0	4
53 to 56	0	1
57 to 60	0	6
61 to 64	0	4
65 to 68	1	0
69 to 72	0	0
73 to 76	3	4
77 to 80	0	21
81 to 84	3	16
85 to 88	4	7
89 to 92	0	2
93 to 96	0	2
97 to 100	0	3
101 to 104	0	9
105 to 108	0	4
109 to 112	6	12
113 to 116	37	27
117 to 120	7	6
121 to 124	6	4
125 to 128	1	5
129 to 132	0	2
133 to 136	7	10
137 to 140	11	19
141 to 144	6	21
145 to 146	1	32

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, 24 are women's.

133 lines from women, 431 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

44 women and 62 men in the cast. 2 women and 5 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

A woman speaks the first line. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 87 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 24% of the words (1,388), men 76% (4,472).

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

Two men

Exhibit E: behind the camera

3 of the 13 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 21% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Steven Spielberg (man)
Written by: Scott Frank (man), Jon Cohen (man)
Produced by: Jan de Bont (man), Bonnie Curtis (woman), Gerald R. Molen (man), Walter F. Parkes (man)
Shot by: Janusz Kamiński (man)
Edited by: Michael Kahn (man)
Music by: John Williams (man)
Production design by: Alex McDowell (man)
Costumes by: Deborah L. Scott (woman)
Cast by: Denise Chamian (woman)