Fails the Bechdel test
Run
2020. Directed by Aneesh Chaganty, written by Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
1 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
7 women characters. 5 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
Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3, though someone marked that rating as dubious.
The film
Chloe, a teenage wheelchair user, is home schooled by her mother. However, her mother's strange behavior doesn't go unnoticed and when Chloe pries into some private papers, she discovers a Change of Name Certificate document with her mother's name, Diane Sherman, on it. When Chloe googles "Diane Sherman," the internet suddenly disconnects. Chloe becomes suspicious of all that her mother does, suspecting her of something sinister. She decides to go on the run in her wheelchair in a desperate attempt to get away from her.
- Released
- 20 Nov 2020
- Genres
- Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 6.7 / 10
- Metascore
- 67 / 100
- Awards
- 3 wins & 6 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Daughter 140 lines, woman
- Mother 136 lines, woman
- Nurse 28 lines
- Pharmacist 25 lines, woman
- Mailman 20 lines, man
- Voice Of Brooklyn Boy 15 lines, man
- Voice Of 411 Robot 8 lines
- Doctor 6 lines, man
- Outside The Window 6 lines, woman
- Woman 4 lines, woman
Full cast, 16 people
- Sarah Paulson as Mother / Diane
- Kiera Allen as Daughter / Chloe
- Pat Healy as Mailman
- Sara Sohn as Nurse
- Erik Athavale as Doctor
- BJ Harrison as Meeting Leader
- Sharon Bajer as Pharmacist
- Onalee Ames as Crying Hands
- Joanne Rodriguez as Security Guard (Corrections)
- Ernie Foort as Security Guard (Hospital)
- Bradley Sawatzky as Obstetrician
- Cory Wojcik as Person in Line
- Tony Revolori as Brooklyn Boy
- Carter Heintz as Nivea Boy (uncredited)
- Steve Pacaud as Doctor (uncredited)
- Derek James Trapp as Nurse (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 12% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 115
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 to 6 | 19 | 2 |
| 7 to 9 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 to 12 | 1 | 0 |
| 13 to 15 | 4 | 0 |
| 16 to 18 | 5 | 0 |
| 19 to 21 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 to 24 | 6 | 0 |
| 25 to 27 | 6 | 0 |
| 28 to 30 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 to 33 | 41 | 0 |
| 34 to 36 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 to 39 | 9 | 0 |
| 40 to 42 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 to 45 | 5 | 0 |
| 46 to 48 | 0 | 0 |
| 49 to 51 | 14 | 0 |
| 52 to 54 | 19 | 0 |
| 55 to 57 | 0 | 0 |
| 58 to 60 | 29 | 15 |
| 61 to 63 | 5 | 0 |
| 64 to 66 | 0 | 0 |
| 67 to 69 | 3 | 0 |
| 70 to 72 | 53 | 1 |
| 73 to 75 | 0 | 0 |
| 76 to 78 | 3 | 0 |
| 79 to 81 | 2 | 0 |
| 82 to 84 | 0 | 0 |
| 85 to 87 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 to 90 | 1 | 0 |
| 91 to 93 | 17 | 20 |
| 94 to 96 | 0 | 0 |
| 97 to 99 | 52 | 6 |
| 100 to 102 | 1 | 0 |
| 103 to 105 | 2 | 0 |
| 106 to 108 | 9 | 1 |
| 109 to 111 | 1 | 0 |
| 112 to 114 | 1 | 0 |
| 115 to 115 | 4 | 0 |
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, 88 are women's.
316 lines from women, 45 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
7 women and 9 men in the cast. 5 women and 4 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
A woman speaks the first line.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 10 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 89% of the words (3,489), men 11% (423). Women have 88% of the lines, so their lines run longer than men's.
Exhibit D: the test the other way
Run the other way, for men, the film scores 0 out of 3.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
0
Two men
0
Exhibit E: behind the camera
3 of the 12 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 27% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Aneesh Chaganty (man)
- Written by
- Aneesh Chaganty (man), Sev Ohanian (man)
- Produced by
- Sev Ohanian (man), Natalie Qasabian (woman)
- Shot by
- Hillary Spera (woman)
- Edited by
- Will Merrick (man), Nicholas D. Johnson (man)
- Music by
- Torin Borrowdale (man)
- Production design by
- Jean-Andre Carriere (man)
- Costumes by
- Heather Neale (woman)
- Cast by
- Rich Delia (man)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
3 women, 5 men, 72 not listed
-
Production
7 women, 4 men, 19 not listed
-
Camera
1 women, 3 men, 22 not listed
-
Art
1 women, 4 men, 20 not listed
-
Sound
1 women, 16 men, 3 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
2 women, 1 men, 9 not listed
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Editing
1 women, 2 men, 7 not listed
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Lighting
0 women, 0 men, 8 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 46 on average. Men: 40 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Kiera Allen 22, Sarah Paulson 45, Sara Sohn 47, Sharon Bajer 52, BJ Harrison 66
Men
Erik Athavale 30, Pat Healy 49
Exhibit G: the money
It made 5.5 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $1 million
- Box office
- $5.5 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 115 scenes and 411 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
