Passes the Bechdel test

Mr. Mom

Name: Mr. Mom
Released: 1983

1983. Directed by Stan Dragoti, written by John Hughes.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
13 women characters. 7 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 129.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.

The film

Jack Butler is happily married and lives with his beloved wife, Caroline, and their three children, Alex, Kenny, and Megan, in a suburb of Detroit. He is an engineer who works in an automobile factory with his friends, Stan and Larry, and they go to the work in carpool with their boss, Jinx. When Jack loses his job, Caroline looks for one and finds in the advertising agency that belongs to Ron Richardson. Soon she succeeds in holding an important account in the agency and climbs positions and responsibilities. Meanwhile, Jack learns how hard the household chores and childcare are.

Released: 19 Aug 1983
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Rated: PG
IMDb: 6.6 / 10
Metascore: 50 / 100
Awards: 2 wins & 1 nomination total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Jack 270 lines, man
Caroline 128 lines, woman
Joan 42 lines, woman
Richardson 41 lines, man
Alex 33 lines, man
Jinx 17 lines, man
Larry 15 lines, man
Kenny 12 lines, man
Eve 11 lines, woman
Annette 10 lines, woman

Full cast, 31 people

Michael Keaton as Jack
Teri Garr as Caroline
Frederick Koehler as Alex
Taliesin Jaffe as Kenny
Courtney-Jane White as Megan
Brittany White as Megan
Martin Mull as Ron
Ann Jillian as Joan
Jeffrey Tambor as Jinx
Christopher Lloyd as Larry
Tom Leopold as Stan
Graham Jarvis as Humphries
Carolyn Seymour as Eve
Michael Alaimo as Bert
Valri Bromfield as Doris
Charles Woolf as Phil
Miriam Flynn as Annette
Derek McGrath as Exec. #1
Michael Ensign as Exec. #2
Ken Olfson as Exec. #3
Frank Birney as Exec. #4
Hilary Beane as Exec. #5
Edie McClurg as Check Out Lady
Patti Deutsch as Deli Girl
Estelle Omens as Middle Age Woman
Patty Freedman as Melon Girl
Bernadette Birkett as Young Woman Shopper
Lisa Freeman as Motorhead
John Richard Petersen as Executive (uncredited)
James Gallery as Bob
Larry Jenkins as Camera Asst. (as Larry Flash Gordon)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 13% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 129

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	2	1
4 to 6	4	16
7 to 9	0	0
10 to 12	0	20
13 to 15	3	31
16 to 18	16	19
19 to 21	5	6
22 to 24	18	13
25 to 27	5	7
28 to 30	13	15
31 to 33	7	7
34 to 36	9	10
37 to 39	1	6
40 to 42	8	15
43 to 45	0	11
46 to 48	3	8
49 to 51	3	6
52 to 54	1	5
55 to 57	1	1
58 to 60	2	4
61 to 63	3	5
64 to 66	9	29
67 to 69	3	2
70 to 72	0	21
73 to 75	7	4
76 to 78	25	39
79 to 81	0	0
82 to 84	0	7
85 to 87	0	2
88 to 90	0	0
91 to 93	3	3
94 to 96	1	3
97 to 99	7	8
100 to 102	13	16
103 to 105	5	9
106 to 108	0	18
109 to 111	11	23
112 to 114	0	7
115 to 117	11	14
118 to 120	1	2
121 to 123	6	5
124 to 126	12	8
127 to 129	3	16

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.

CAROLINE: What are you doing in urJ bedroom, Joan? JOAN: Responding to someone in pain. Is it too early for a drink? CAROLINE: Not today.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 33 are women's.

221 lines from women, 442 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

13 women and 17 men in the cast. 7 women and 22 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 5 of 765. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 55 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 35% of the words (2,960), men 65% (5,468). Women have 33% 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

3 of the 11 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 11% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Stan Dragoti (man)
Written by: John Hughes (man)
Produced by: Lauren Shuler Donner (woman), Lynn Loring (woman), Bill Damaschke (man)
Shot by: Victor J. Kemper (man)
Edited by: Patrick Kennedy (gender not listed)
Music by: Lee Holdridge (man)
Production design by: Alfred Sweeney (man)
Costumes by: Nolan Miller (man)
Cast by: Lisa Freiberger (woman)