Fails the Bechdel test
Red Heat
1988. Directed by Walter Hill, written by Walter Hill and Harry Kleiner and Troy Kennedy Martin.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
1 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
5 women characters. 4 of them speak. -
No
2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.
Second opinion
Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.
The film
With his partner fallen in the line of duty, hard-as-nails Soviet police officer Captain Ivan Danko is dispatched to Chicago, Illinois. And like a fish out of water, Danko arrives in the United States to find and extradite the ruthless Georgian drug kingpin Viktor Rostavili to Russia. But as Danko teams up with easy-going Sergeant Art Ridzik, two worlds collide. Now, the challenging case becomes deadly by the minute, threatening not only the reluctant comrades' uneasy alliance but also the outcome of the investigation. As bullets fly and people die left and right, can Moscow's toughest and Chicago's finest put their differences aside in the name of justice?
- Released
- 17 Jun 1988
- Genres
- Action, Comedy, Crime
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.2 / 10
- Metascore
- 61 / 100
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Danko 237 lines, man
- Ridzik 236 lines, man
- Wills 60 lines, man
- Stobbs 42 lines, man
- Gallagher 35 lines, man
- Larissa 27 lines, woman
- Viktor 21 lines, man
- Night Clerk 15 lines, man
- Abdul 11 lines, man
- Hooker 11 lines, woman
Full cast, 52 people
- Arnold Schwarzenegger as Ivan Danko
- Jim Belushi as Art Ridzik
- Peter Boyle as Lou Donnelly
- Ed O'Ross as Viktor Rostavili
- Laurence Fishburne as Lt. Stobbs
- Gina Gershon as Cat Manzetti
- Richard Bright as Sgt. Gallagher
- Brent Jennings as Abdul Elijah
- Gretchen Palmer as Hooker
- Pruitt Taylor Vince as Night Clerk
- Mike Hagerty as Pat Nunn
- Brion James as Streak
- Gloria Delaney as Intern
- Peter Jason as TV Announcer
- Oleg Vidov as Yuri Ogarkov
- Savely Kramarov as Gregor Moussorsky
- J.W. Smith as Salim
- Gene Scherer as Consul Stepanovich
- Tengiz Borisoff as Josip Baroda
- Roger Callard as Pytor Tatomovich
- Gábor Koncz as Vagran Rostavili
- Géza Balkay as Col. Kulikov
- Zsolt Körtvélyessy as Lt. Redetsky
- János Bán as Officer
- Masanori Toguchi as Mongol Hippy
- Sven-Ole Thorsen as Nikolai
- Norbert Növényi as Sacha
- Istvan Etlenyi as Yegor
- George Gati as Piano Player
- Peter Marikovsky as Waiter
- Gábor Németh as Gangster
- Istvan Vajas as Gangster
- Peter Kis as Gangster
- Atilla Fási as Gangster
- Eric Mansker as Ali
- Lew Hopson as Jamal
- Jason Ronard as Nelligan
- Gigi Vorgan as Officer Audrey
- Allan Graf as Joliet Prison Guard
- Kurt Fuller as Detective
- Bruno Alexander as Detective
- Christopher Mankiewicz as Cop in Hospital
- Bob O'Donnell as Bernie the Newsie
- Marjorie Bransfield as Waitress
- Luis Contreras as Lupo
- Christopher Anthony Young as Hooligan
- William McConnell as Police Photographer
- Ed DeFusco as Police Photographer
- Joey D. Vieira as Man at Phone Booth
- Michael Adams as Railroad Engineer
- Jonathan Tate as Prison Cleanhead
- Michael Lindström as Man at Airport
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 5 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 194
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 5 | 0 | 11 |
| 6 to 10 | 0 | 22 |
| 11 to 15 | 0 | 6 |
| 16 to 20 | 0 | 18 |
| 21 to 25 | 0 | 33 |
| 26 to 30 | 0 | 37 |
| 31 to 35 | 0 | 34 |
| 36 to 40 | 3 | 21 |
| 41 to 45 | 5 | 32 |
| 46 to 50 | 0 | 42 |
| 51 to 55 | 0 | 6 |
| 56 to 60 | 0 | 0 |
| 61 to 65 | 3 | 2 |
| 66 to 70 | 0 | 0 |
| 71 to 75 | 0 | 10 |
| 76 to 80 | 0 | 69 |
| 81 to 85 | 17 | 77 |
| 86 to 90 | 0 | 3 |
| 91 to 95 | 0 | 11 |
| 96 to 100 | 1 | 8 |
| 101 to 105 | 0 | 16 |
| 106 to 110 | 0 | 44 |
| 111 to 115 | 9 | 13 |
| 116 to 120 | 0 | 0 |
| 121 to 125 | 0 | 0 |
| 126 to 130 | 0 | 3 |
| 131 to 135 | 1 | 0 |
| 136 to 140 | 2 | 3 |
| 141 to 145 | 3 | 6 |
| 146 to 150 | 5 | 11 |
| 151 to 155 | 0 | 16 |
| 156 to 160 | 0 | 17 |
| 161 to 165 | 1 | 28 |
| 166 to 170 | 0 | 17 |
| 171 to 175 | 1 | 28 |
| 176 to 180 | 0 | 6 |
| 181 to 185 | 0 | 9 |
| 186 to 190 | 0 | 30 |
| 191 to 194 | 0 | 22 |
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, 7 are women's.
51 lines from women, 711 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
5 women and 35 men in the cast. 4 women and 20 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 201 of 815.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 200 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 8% of the words (924), men 92% (10,444). Women have 7% 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
Two women
0
Two men
75
Exhibit E: behind the camera
1 of the 15 people in these jobs is a woman.
Across the whole crew, 9% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Walter Hill (man)
- Written by
- Walter Hill (man), Harry Kleiner (man), Troy Kennedy Martin (man)
- Story by
- Walter Hill (man)
- Produced by
- Gordon Carroll (man), Walter Hill (man)
- Shot by
- Matthew F. Leonetti (man)
- Edited by
- Donn Aron (man), Carmel Davies (gender not listed), Freeman A. Davies (man)
- Music by
- James Horner (man)
- Production design by
- John Vallone (man)
- Costumes by
- Dan Moore (man)
- Cast by
- Jackie Burch (woman)
The crew, department by department
-
Production
2 women, 4 men, 5 not listed
-
Directing
1 women, 7 men, 2 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
0 women, 4 men, 1 not listed
-
Art
0 women, 4 men
-
Other crew
0 women, 3 men, 1 not listed
-
Writing
0 women, 4 men
-
Editing
0 women, 2 men, 1 not listed
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Camera
0 women, 2 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 26 on average. Men: 38 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Gina Gershon 26, Gretchen Palmer 26
Men
Laurence Fishburne 26, Pruitt Taylor Vince 27, Jim Belushi 34, Brent Jennings 37, Arnold Schwarzenegger 40, Ed O'Ross 41, Richard Bright 50, Peter Boyle 52
Exhibit G: the money
It made 1.2 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $29 million
- Box office
- $35 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 194 scenes and 815 lines of dialogue. How the test works
