Passes the Bechdel test

Mission to Mars

Name: Mission to Mars
Released: 2000

2000. Directed by Brian De Palma, written by Lowell Cannon and Jim Thomas and John Thomas.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
14 women characters. 4 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 163.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

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

The film

When a mysterious storm kills all but one crew member of the first manned mission to mars, a rescue mission is launched. Once on the red planet, the crew finds the sole survivor of the first mission who informs them that this was no ordinary storm. It was meant to protect something. But what?

Released: 10 Mar 2000
Genres: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Rated: PG
IMDb: 5.7 / 10
Metascore: 34 / 100
Awards: 3 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Mcconnell 178 lines, man
Woody 135 lines, man
Luke 127 lines, man
Phil 99 lines, man
Terri 96 lines, woman
Beck 30 lines, man
Cote 14 lines, woman
Computer 13 lines, man
Willis 11 lines, man
Kirov 10 lines, man

Full cast, 33 people

Gary Sinise as Jim McConnell
Tim Robbins as Woody Blake
Don Cheadle as Luke Graham
Connie Nielsen as Terri Fisher
Jerry O'Connell as Phil Ohlmyer
Peter Outerbridge as Sergei Kirov
Kavan Smith as Nicholas Willis
Jill Teed as Renée Coté
Elise Neal as Debra Graham
Marilyn Norry as NASA Wive
Freda Perry as NASA Wive
Lynda Boyd as NASA Wive
Patricia Harras as NASA Wive
Robert Bailey Jr. as Bobby Graham
Chaynade Knowles as Child at Party
Jeffrey Ballard as Child at Party
Anson Woods as Child at Party
Britt McKillip as Child at Party
Jillian Marie Hubert as Child at Party
Jody Thompson as Pretty Girl 1
Lucia Walters as Pretty Girl 2
Pamela Diaz as Pretty Girl 3
Sugith Varughese as 2nd Capcom
Story Musgrave as 3rd Capcom
Mina E. Mina as Ambassador
Carlo Rota as Ambassador
Dmitry Chepovetsky as Technician
Tracy Waterhouse as Sobbing Technician
McCanna Anthony Sinise as Young Jim McConnell
Chantal Conlin as Young Maggie
Jukka Joensuu as Priest
Bill Timoney as Computer (voice)
Armin Mueller-Stahl as Ray Beck (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 4 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 163

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 4	19	22
5 to 8	3	34
9 to 12	2	2
13 to 16	6	23
17 to 20	5	27
21 to 24	0	7
25 to 28	0	3
29 to 32	0	1
33 to 36	10	29
37 to 40	2	43
41 to 44	1	17
45 to 48	3	21
49 to 52	2	5
53 to 56	16	50
57 to 60	2	9
61 to 64	0	10
65 to 68	1	7
69 to 72	0	4
73 to 76	0	3
77 to 80	0	7
81 to 84	3	15
85 to 88	0	6
89 to 92	1	20
93 to 96	19	71
97 to 100	0	10
101 to 104	0	6
105 to 108	1	2
109 to 112	2	2
113 to 116	2	36
117 to 120	7	28
121 to 124	0	10
125 to 128	2	8
129 to 132	1	24
133 to 136	0	2
137 to 140	7	15
141 to 144	12	27
145 to 148	0	0
149 to 152	3	5
153 to 156	1	2
157 to 160	0	0
161 to 163	1	2

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scene

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

TERRI: Maggie, why does this have to be about us? Mars is a great opportunity for pure science. MAGGIE: We'll do the science. And we'll do it very well. That's what we've trained for. But what if there's more...? In all our myths, in every huma… MAGGIE: The universe is not chaos. It's connection. Life reaches out for life... MAGGIE: This is what we were born for, isn't it? To stand on a new world, and look beyond it to the next one. It's who we are.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 18 are women's.

134 lines from women, 615 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

14 women and 14 men in the cast. 4 women and 12 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 10 of 757. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 46 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 16% of the words (1,260), men 84% (6,698). Women have 18% 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

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: Brian De Palma (man)
Written by: Jim Thomas (man), John Thomas (man), Graham Yost (man)
Story by: Lowell Cannon (gender not listed), Jim Thomas (man), John Thomas (man)
Produced by: Tom Jacobson (man)
Shot by: Stephen H. Burum (man)
Edited by: Paul Hirsch (man)
Music by: Ennio Morricone (man)
Costumes by: Sanja Milkovic Hays (woman)
Cast by: Denise Chamian (woman), Stuart Aikins (man)