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Ratatouille

2007. Directed by Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava, written by Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava and Jim Capobianco.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

0 / 3

Fails

  1. No 1. At least two women
    Fewer than two women characters.
  2. No 2. Who talk to each other
    Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other.
  3. No 3. About something besides a man
    Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.

Poster for Ratatouille

The film

A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely, and certainly unwanted, visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy's passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down.

Released
29 Jun 2007
Genres
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Rated
G
IMDb
8.1 / 10
Metascore
96 / 100
Awards
Won 1 Oscar. 69 wins & 42 nominations total
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Remy 163 lines, man
  2. Linguini 133 lines, man
  3. Skinner 106 lines, man
  4. Colette 77 lines, woman
  5. Django 43 lines, man
  6. Ego 36 lines, man
  7. Emile 36 lines, man
  8. Gusteau 29 lines, man
  9. Talon 18 lines, man
  10. Horst 14 lines, man
Full cast, 26 people
  • Patton Oswalt as Remy (voice)
  • Lou Romano as Linguini (voice)
  • Ian Holm as Skinner (voice)
  • Brian Dennehy as Django (voice)
  • Peter Sohn as Emile (voice)
  • Peter O'Toole as Anton Ego (voice)
  • Brad Garrett as Gusteau (voice)
  • Janeane Garofalo as Colette (voice)
  • Will Arnett as Horst (voice)
  • Julius Callahan as Lalo / Francois (voice)
  • James Remar as Larousse (voice)
  • John Ratzenberger as Mustafa (voice)
  • Teddy Newton as Lawyer (Talon Labarthe) (voice)
  • Tony Fucile as Pompidou / Health Inspector (voice)
  • Jake Steinfeld as Git (Lab Rat) (voice)
  • Brad Bird as Ambrister Minion (voice)
  • Stéphane Roux as TV Narrator (voice)
  • Jack Bird as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Andrea Boerries as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Marco Boerries as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Lindsey Collins as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Thomas Keller as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Bradford Lewis as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Lori Richardson as Additional Voices (voice)
  • Michael Giacchino as Reporter (voice) (uncredited)
  • Bill Farmer as Paris Citizens (voice) (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

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

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 63

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 2024
3 to 4011
5 to 6063
7 to 8117
9 to 10044
11 to 12735
13 to 1404
15 to 1609
17 to 18218
19 to 203051
21 to 22939
23 to 24017
25 to 26043
27 to 28032
29 to 30612
31 to 32744
33 to 3417
35 to 3629
37 to 38018
39 to 4011
41 to 42012
43 to 44321
45 to 4608
47 to 48017
49 to 50212
51 to 5217
53 to 54026
55 to 56218
57 to 58011
59 to 60522
61 to 62110
63 to 6300

The evidence

  • Straight from the script
  • Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 11 are women's.

80 lines from women, 662 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

4 women and 21 men in the cast. 1 women and 36 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 117 of 754. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 116 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

  • First line by a woman
  • Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 12% of the words (1,030), men 88% (7,491). Women have 11% of the lines, so their lines run longer than men's.

Exhibit D: 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

Exhibit E: behind the camera

2 of the 13 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 22% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Brad Bird (man)
Written by
Brad Bird (man)
Story by
Jan Pinkava (man), Jim Capobianco (man), Brad Bird (man)
Produced by
Bradford Lewis (man)
Shot by
Robert Anderson (man), Sharon Calahan (woman)
Edited by
Darren T. Holmes (man)
Music by
Michael Giacchino (man)
Production design by
Harley Jessup (man)
Cast by
Natalie Lyon (woman), Kevin Reher (man)

The crew, department by department

  • Visual Effects

    7 women, 44 men, 77 not listed

  • Other crew

    8 women, 21 men, 81 not listed

  • Sound

    11 women, 25 men, 25 not listed

  • Art

    2 women, 10 men, 11 not listed

  • Lighting

    4 women, 3 men, 14 not listed

  • Writing

    0 women, 17 men, 3 not listed

  • Editing

    1 women, 7 men, 9 not listed

  • Production

    4 women, 5 men, 2 not listed

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit F: how old the stars were

Women: 42 on average. Men: 51 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Janeane Garofalo 42

Men

Peter Sohn 32, Lou Romano 35, Will Arnett 37, Patton Oswalt 38, Brad Garrett 47, Brian Dennehy 68, Peter O'Toole 74, Ian Holm 75

Exhibit G: the money

It made 4.2 times what it cost.

Budget
$150 million
Box office
$624 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 63 scenes and 754 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works

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