Passes the Bechdel test

Over the Moon

Name: Over the Moon
Released: 2020

2020. Directed by John Kahrs and Glen Keane, written by Audrey Wells and Jennifer Yee McDevitt and Alice Wu.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
14 women characters. 23 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 15 scenes out of 83.
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

Having grown up hearing her mother's favourite legend about Chang'e, pale moon's goddess who lives alone on the silent celestial body pining for Hou Yi, her long-lost lover, the brilliant thirteen-year-old girl, Fei Fei, is in for an unpleasant surprise. Then, as if that weren't enough, her doting father catches her off-guard by making a life-altering announcement, and Fei Fei's whole world comes crashing down around her. Now, determined to prove him wrong, Fei Fei sets out to build a home-made rocket and blast off to the stars. Does true love last forever?

Released: 23 Oct 2020
Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Rated: PG
IMDb: 6.3 / 10
Metascore: 60 / 100
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 60 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Fei Fei 256 lines, woman
Chin 104 lines, man
Gobi 99 lines, man
Chang’E 74 lines, woman
Father 43 lines, man
Mrs. Zhong 30 lines, woman
Mother 26 lines, woman
Bill 23 lines, man
Blue Lunette 16 lines, woman
Young Fei Fei 16 lines, woman

Full cast, 29 people

Cathy Ang as Fei Fei (voice)
Phillipa Soo as Chang'e (voice)
Robert G. Chiu as Chin (voice)
Ken Jeong as Gobi (voice)
John Cho as Father (voice)
Sandra Oh as Mrs. Zhong (voice)
Ruthie Ann Miles as Mother (voice)
Margaret Cho as Auntie Ling / Gretch (voice)
Kimiko Glenn as Auntie Mei / Lulu (voice)
Artt Butler as Uncle / Bill (voice)
Irene Tsu as Grandma (voice)
Clem Cheung as Grandpa (voice)
Conrad Ricamora as Houyi (voice)
Glen Keane as Space Dog / Rail Worker #3 (voice)
Brycen Taylor Hall as Young Fei Fei (voice)
Edie Ichioka as Bungee (voice)
Brittany Ishibashi as Blue Lunette (voice)
Janice Kawaye as Pink Lunette (voice)
Trisha Vo as Yellow Lunette (voice)
Greg Watanabe as Male Customer / Rail Worker #2 (voice)
James Taku Leung as Photographed Father / Rail Worker #1 / Delivery Man (voice)
Elizabeth Pan as Photographed Mother (voice)
Josiah D. Lee as Photographed Son (voice)
David Chen as Townsperson / Teacher (voice)
Meilee Condron as Additional Voices (voice)
Ewan Chung as Additional Voices (voice)
John Kahrs as Additional Voices (voice)
Lucy Lin as Photographed Daughter (voice)
Esther K. Chae as Lunarians (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 7% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 83

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 2	21	4
3 to 4	20	3
5 to 6	7	5
7 to 8	1	0
9 to 10	0	0
11 to 12	4	0
13 to 14	3	3
15 to 16	5	4
17 to 18	6	5
19 to 20	20	22
21 to 22	37	15
23 to 24	46	15
25 to 26	5	0
27 to 28	7	0
29 to 30	3	0
31 to 32	2	1
33 to 34	2	2
35 to 36	1	0
37 to 38	2	3
39 to 40	1	0
41 to 42	0	0
43 to 44	1	0
45 to 46	0	0
47 to 48	0	0
49 to 50	16	9
51 to 52	2	0
53 to 54	11	5
55 to 56	48	1
57 to 58	17	12
59 to 60	20	32
61 to 62	34	8
63 to 64	41	34
65 to 66	0	0
67 to 68	25	31
69 to 70	36	32
71 to 72	1	5
73 to 74	0	1
75 to 76	17	17
77 to 78	33	12
79 to 80	9	6
81 to 82	4	1
83 to 83	21	13

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.

AUNTIE LING: Take a look! FEI FEI: Oh yeah, my favorite!

FEI FEI: [SCOFFS] No rabbits at the table. You remember what momma said. Besides, that’s my chair. AUNTIE LING: Let me carry that!

FEI FEI: -WHEN a robber came and tried to st- AUNTIE LING: -steal the immortality pills. [SCOFFS] Yeah, yeah, yeah, she only put them both in her mouth as a hiding place... Hm. Not buying it.

AUNTIE LING: It’s just a silly myth. FEI FEI: It’s not a silly myth. It’s real. Chang’e is real.

AUNTIE LING: She’s at the top of her class, but she still believes in Chang’e? FEI FEI: It’s you and me, Bungee. We’re the last true believers. FEI FEI: Ah! FEI FEI: Ow!

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 64 are women's.

529 lines from women, 301 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

14 women and 12 men in the cast. 23 women and 14 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 9 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 63% of the words (3,576), men 37% (2,125). Women have 64% 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

3 of the 8 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 33% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Glen Keane (man)
Written by: Audrey Wells (woman)
Produced by: Gennie Rim (gender not listed), Peilin Chou (gender not listed)
Edited by: Edie Ichioka (woman)
Music by: Steven Price (man)
Production design by: Celine Desrumaux (woman)
Cast by: Micah Dahlberg (gender not listed)