Passes the Bechdel test

New York Minute

Name: New York Minute
Released: 2004

2004. Directed by Dennie Gordon, written by Emily Fox and Adam Cooper and Bill Collage.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
11 women characters. 0 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 5 scenes out of 101.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

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

The film

One day in New York City, Jane Ryan tries out for an overseas college program, her twin sister Roxy schemes to meet her favorite punk rockers, and a series of mishaps throws their day into chaos. The usually-adversarial sisters decide to unite against the forces around them so both can accomplish their goals.

Released: 07 May 2004
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Rated: PG
IMDb: 5 / 10
Metascore: 33 / 100
Awards: 6 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Drew 238 lines, woman
Parker 233 lines
Warren 48 lines
Mrs. Lo Biancho 27 lines, woman
Quinn 24 lines, woman
Hogan 22 lines
Charley 19 lines, man
Professor Spaulding 16 lines
Bennie 15 lines, man
Roger 15 lines, man

Full cast, 37 people

Ashley Olsen as Jane Ryan
Mary-Kate Olsen as Roxy Ryan
Eugene Levy as Max Lomax
Andy Richter as Bennie Bang
Riley Smith as Jim
Jared Padalecki as Trey Lipton
Drew Pinsky as Dr. Ryan
Darrell Hammond as Hudson McGill
Andrea Martin as Anne Lipton
Alannah Ong as Ma Bang
Bob Saget as Bob Saget
Jack Osbourne as Justin
Mary Bond Davis as Big Shirl
Neil Crone as Officer Strauss
Sébastien Lefebvre as Simple Plan
David Desrosiers as Simple Plan
Pierre Bouvier as Simple Plan
Chuck Comeau as Simple Plan
Jeff Stinco as Simple Plan
Boyd Banks as Ticket Window Guy
Frank Welker as Reinaldo (voice)
H. Jon Benjamin as I Love NY Vendor
Jo Chim as Ma Bang's Assistant
Joey Klein as Truant at Pool
Jonathan Wilson as Train Conductor
Silver Kim as Asian Guy with Chip
The Naked Cowboy as Naked Cowboy
Oluniké Adeliyi as Big Shirl's Beautician
Lindsay Leese as Customer at Ma Bang's
Frank Bonsangue as Con Ed Supervisor
Kent Staines as Doorman
Damon D'Oliveira as News Broadcaster
Eric Woolfe as Male Nurse
Warren Belle as Mickey the Cab Driver
Kathleen Laskey as Steffi Brooger
John Hemphill as Tim Brooger
Jamila Fleming as House of Bling Customer

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 48% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 101

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	28	7
4 to 6	12	0
7 to 9	10	1
10 to 12	12	7
13 to 15	5	2
16 to 18	11	14
19 to 21	2	0
22 to 24	18	11
25 to 27	21	1
28 to 30	6	0
31 to 33	3	2
34 to 36	2	0
37 to 39	15	10
40 to 42	2	0
43 to 45	4	0
46 to 48	16	3
49 to 51	16	1
52 to 54	2	5
55 to 57	11	0
58 to 60	7	0
61 to 63	13	0
64 to 66	1	0
67 to 69	19	0
70 to 72	7	4
73 to 75	6	8
76 to 78	2	4
79 to 81	3	0
82 to 84	2	1
85 to 87	7	5
88 to 90	2	0
91 to 93	10	8
94 to 96	2	0
97 to 99	31	10
100 to 101	9	5

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.

QUINN: You ready for your interview? DREW: I've prepared a color-coded itinerary based on dividing the day into fifteen minute increments alternating blue/red, double- checked the tra…

QUINN: Well, Drew. I have a surprise. QUINN: I took the day off. I'm going into the City with you. DREW: What -- ?! QUINN: Isn't that great! We can do some shopping, have lunch, real girl stuff. Won't that be fun?

QUINN: You okay? DREW: No... I mean, it's... impossible. I've got every minute accounted for right up to the interview. Blue and red! It won't work. QUINN: I just thought... you know... I've been working and we haven't had a chance to spend much time together... QUINN: ... and both my babies are going away to college next Fall.

DREW: I'm sorry, Mom. It's really sweet of you. But don't worry. Parker will be living here with you forever since no college on earth will ever t… QUINN: Stop it, you two.

QUINN: Come on, honey! Let's tear up Manhattan! DREW: You're smart. You're resourceful. You'll find a way to make it work.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 74 are women's.

317 lines from women, 109 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

11 women and 26 men in the cast. 0 women and 6 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 2 of 823. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 23 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 75% of the words (2,987), men 25% (1,007). Women have 74% 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

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

7 of the 16 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 36% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Dennie Gordon (woman)
Written by: Emily Fox (woman), Adam Cooper (man), Bill Collage (man)
Story by: Emily Fox (woman)
Produced by: Denise Di Novi (woman), Ashley Olsen (woman), Mary-Kate Olsen (woman), Robert Thorne (man)
Shot by: Greg Gardiner (man)
Edited by: Roderick Davis (man), Michael Jablow (man)
Music by: George S. Clinton (man)
Production design by: Michael Carlin (man)
Costumes by: Christopher Hargadon (man)
Cast by: Marci Liroff (woman)