Passes the Bechdel test

Passengers

Name: Passengers
Released: 2016

2016. Directed by Morten Tyldum, written by Jon Spaihts.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
17 women characters. 3 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 2 scenes out of 120.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 0 out of 3.

The film

The spaceship, Starship Avalon, in its 120-year voyage to a distant colony planet known as the "Homestead Colony" and transporting 5,258 people has a malfunction in one of its sleep chambers. As a result one hibernation pod opens prematurely and the one person that awakes, Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) is stranded on the spaceship, still 90 years from his destination.

Released: 21 Dec 2016
Genres: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 7 / 10
Metascore: 41 / 100
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. 2 wins & 13 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Jim 335 lines, man
Aurora 265 lines, woman
Gus 81 lines, man
Arthur 71 lines, man
Infomat 14 lines, man
Video Stewardess 14 lines, woman
Communications Booth 11 lines, woman
Video Instructor 10 lines
Grand Concourse 9 lines, man
Observatory 9 lines, man

Full cast, 39 people

Jennifer Lawrence as Aurora Lane
Chris Pratt as Jim Preston
Michael Sheen as Arthur
Laurence Fishburne as Gus Mancuso
Andy Garcia as Captain Norris
Vince Foster as Executive Officer
Kara Flowers as Communications Officer
Conor Brophy as Crew Member
Julee Cerda as Instructor (Hologram)
Aurora Perrineau as Best Friend
Lauren Farmer as Party Friend
Emerald Mayne as Party Friend
Kristin Brock as Party Friend
Tom Ferrari as Party Friend
Quansae Rutledge as Party Friend
Desmond Reid as Party Friend
Emma Clarke as Avalon (voice)
Chris Edgerly as InfoMat / Deejay (voice)
Fred Melamed as Observatory (voice)
Matt Corboy as Video Game (voice)
Jesus Mendoza as Hector, the Robot Waiter
Alpha Takahashi as Sushi Robot Waitress
Matthew Wolf as French Restaurant Robot Waiter
Jean-Michel Richaud as French Restaurant Robot Waiter
Jon Spaihts as Autodoc (voice)
Curtis Grecco as Dancer
Joy Spears as Dancer
Steph Allen as Passenger in Commercial Promo (uncredited)
Kimberly Battista as Jr Officer Fitzgerald (uncredited)
Nazanin Boniadi as Wake-up Hologram (uncredited)
Marie Burke as The Attendant (uncredited)
Ana Gray as Coffee Girl (uncredited)
Inder Kumar as Banker in Pod (uncredited)
Ashley Lambert as Starship Orientation Leader (uncredited) (voice)
Robert Larriviere as TV Host (uncredited)
Shelby Taylor Mullins as Passenger (uncredited)
Jeff Olsen as Passenger (uncredited)
Kayla Jenee Radomski as Female Video Game Robot (uncredited)
Jamie Soricelli as Space Cruise Passenger (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 11% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 120

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	20	94
4 to 6	3	1
7 to 9	0	20
10 to 12	0	4
13 to 15	0	14
16 to 18	0	0
19 to 21	0	7
22 to 24	0	10
25 to 27	0	19
28 to 30	0	0
31 to 33	45	45
34 to 36	15	13
37 to 39	5	0
40 to 42	7	7
43 to 45	17	14
46 to 48	6	1
49 to 51	28	27
52 to 54	1	4
55 to 57	0	0
58 to 60	13	13
61 to 63	6	5
64 to 66	1	2
67 to 69	7	1
70 to 72	8	9
73 to 75	19	21
76 to 78	1	1
79 to 81	5	7
82 to 84	4	0
85 to 87	2	15
88 to 90	2	13
91 to 93	2	2
94 to 96	14	61
97 to 99	10	32
100 to 102	7	25
103 to 105	24	31
106 to 108	9	11
109 to 111	4	5
112 to 114	1	1
115 to 117	8	6
118 to 120	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.

VIDEO STEWARDESS: You're ready to go to your cabin. Make yourself at home! Enjoy the rest of your flight, Aurora! AURORA: Wait! Why are all these people still hibernating? VIDEO STEWARDESS: Aurora, your cabin is this way!

COMMUNICATIONS BOOTH: Planet and connection, please. AURORA: Earth. The New Yorker magazine, office of the Editor in Chief. COMMUNICATIONS BOOTH: Begin message. AURORA: My name is Aurora Dunn. I'm doing a long-term piece on the colony worlds. I know you won't get this message for a long time...but you should…

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 35 are women's.

294 lines from women, 541 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

17 women and 15 men in the cast. 3 women and 8 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 6 of 937. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 104 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 37% of the words (3,086), men 63% (5,327). Women have 35% 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 12 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 21% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Morten Tyldum (man)
Written by: Jon Spaihts (man)
Produced by: Ori Marmur (man), Michael Maher (gender not listed), Stephen Hamel (man), Neal H. Moritz (man)
Shot by: Rodrigo Prieto (man)
Edited by: Maryann Brandon (woman)
Music by: Thomas Newman (man)
Production design by: Guy Hendrix Dyas (man)
Costumes by: Jany Temime (woman)
Cast by: Francine Maisler (woman)