Passes the Bechdel test
My Old Ass
2024. Directed by Megan Park, written by Megan Park.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
5 women characters. 17 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 25 scenes out of 81. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.
The film
A mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott face-to-face with her 39-year-old self. But when Elliott's "old ass" delivers warnings to her younger self, Elliott realizes she has to rethink everything about her family, life and love.
- Released
- 27 Sep 2024
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.9 / 10
- Metascore
- 74 / 100
- Awards
- 12 wins & 34 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Elliott 362 lines, woman
- Chad 120 lines, man
- My Old Ass 80 lines, woman
- Ro 60 lines, woman
- Older Elliott 58 lines, woman
- Kathy 39 lines, woman
- Ruthie 30 lines, woman
- Max 23 lines, man
- Spencer 15 lines
- Boy 11 lines, man
Full cast, 10 people
- Maisy Stella as Elliott
- Aubrey Plaza as Older Elliott
- Percy Hynes White as Chad
- Maddie Ziegler as Ruthie
- Kerrice Brooks as Ro
- Maria Dizzia as Kathy
- Alain Goulem as Tom
- Seth Isaac Johnson as Max
- Carter Trozzolo as Spencer
- Alexandria Rivera as Chelsea
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 3% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 81
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 35 | 0 |
| 3 to 4 | 7 | 0 |
| 5 to 6 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 to 8 | 16 | 0 |
| 9 to 10 | 3 | 0 |
| 11 to 12 | 13 | 0 |
| 13 to 14 | 147 | 0 |
| 15 to 16 | 4 | 0 |
| 17 to 18 | 19 | 0 |
| 19 to 20 | 3 | 1 |
| 21 to 22 | 16 | 15 |
| 23 to 24 | 20 | 0 |
| 25 to 26 | 7 | 0 |
| 27 to 28 | 11 | 0 |
| 29 to 30 | 6 | 0 |
| 31 to 32 | 4 | 3 |
| 33 to 34 | 7 | 0 |
| 35 to 36 | 5 | 1 |
| 37 to 38 | 2 | 0 |
| 39 to 40 | 21 | 25 |
| 41 to 42 | 29 | 8 |
| 43 to 44 | 11 | 2 |
| 45 to 46 | 8 | 0 |
| 47 to 48 | 5 | 0 |
| 49 to 50 | 10 | 0 |
| 51 to 52 | 0 | 0 |
| 53 to 54 | 24 | 25 |
| 55 to 56 | 8 | 7 |
| 57 to 58 | 15 | 13 |
| 59 to 60 | 13 | 0 |
| 61 to 62 | 6 | 0 |
| 63 to 64 | 11 | 7 |
| 65 to 66 | 36 | 0 |
| 67 to 68 | 26 | 0 |
| 69 to 70 | 0 | 0 |
| 71 to 72 | 32 | 18 |
| 73 to 74 | 29 | 23 |
| 75 to 76 | 61 | 18 |
| 77 to 78 | 3 | 0 |
| 79 to 80 | 6 | 0 |
| 81 to 81 | 0 | 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.
RUTHIE: Hold on. Hold on! Hold on! ELLIOTT: Ruthie, you’re fine. I’m not even driving that fast. RO: It’s your birthday, bitch. It’s her birthday... You’re legal now. Now you got legal buttcheeks. RUTHIE: Oh, my god. You can’t say shit like that, Ro.
CHELSEA: They’re like, they’re a medical marvel, right ? ELLIOTT: That’s true. CHELSEA: They cure our UTI’s. We need them. They fight for us, we should fight for them. CHELSEA: So... you said you’re leaving town really soon, right?
RO: Before we get too far into it, should we make an emergency pla n in case, IN CASE anything bad happens? ELLIOTT: No! Nothing bad is gonna happen. That’s like, the whole point of shrooms. Nothing bad happens on shrooms. RUTHIE: What if one of us like, gets too high and says something fucked up and it changes the fabric of our friendship forever?
ELLIOTT WOMAN: What the fuck -- Hey, freak. ELLIOTT: Who are you?!
ELLIOTT: I met Chad. MY OLD ASS: Don’t go there, Ray Romano.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 80 are women's.
680 lines from women, 167 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
5 women and 3 men in the cast. 17 women and 5 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 7 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 81% of the words (6,769), men 19% (1,577). Women have 80% of the lines, so their lines run longer than men's.
Exhibit E: the test the other way
Run the other way, for men, the film scores 2 out of 3.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
53
Two men
4
Exhibit F: behind the camera
6 of the 11 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 39% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Megan Park (woman)
- Written by
- Megan Park (woman)
- Produced by
- Margot Robbie (woman), Steven M. Rales (man), Josey McNamara (man), Tom Ackerley (man)
- Shot by
- Kristen Correll (woman)
- Edited by
- Jennifer Vecchiarello (woman)
- Music by
- Tyler Hilton (man)
- Production design by
- Zazu Myers (woman)
- Cast by
- Douglas Aibel (man)
The crew, department by department
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Production
3 women, 7 men, 11 not listed
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Sound
2 women, 6 men, 10 not listed
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Other crew
1 women, 6 men, 9 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
2 women, 0 men, 8 not listed
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Camera
1 women, 0 men, 6 not listed
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Visual Effects
0 women, 1 men, 5 not listed
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Art
1 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
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Directing
2 women, 1 men, 2 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 31 on average. Men: 35 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Maisy Stella 20, Maddie Ziegler 21, Kerrice Brooks 24, Aubrey Plaza 40, Maria Dizzia 49
Men
Percy Hynes White 22, Seth Isaac Johnson 24, Alain Goulem 58
Exhibit H: the money
It made 1.9 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $3 million
- Box office
- $5.7 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 81 scenes and 875 lines of dialogue. How the test works
