Fails the Bechdel test
Silent Grace
2001. Directed by Maeve Murphy, written by Maeve Murphy.
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
Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.
The film
Armagh Women's Prison 1980 at the height of the iconic IRA Dirty Protest and Hunger Strikes. Young criminal wild child, Aine is throw into the same cell as high ranking republican leader Eileen. The conditions push Aine to the edge. Eileen saves Aine's sanity. A remarkable turn of events then occur, when Eileen goes on hunger strike.
- Released
- 13 Feb 2004
- Genres
- Drama
- IMDb
- 7.1 / 10
- Awards
- 1 nomination
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Fx 69 lines
- Music 66 lines
- Aine 17 lines, woman
- Dialogue 14 lines
- Eileen 7 lines, woman
- Geraldine 6 lines, woman
- Cell Door 5 lines
- Chatter 3 lines
- Door 3 lines
- Cunningham 2 lines, man
Full cast, 21 people
- Orla Brady as Eileen
- Cathleen Bradley as Aine Quinn
- Conor Mullen as Cunningham
- Cara Seymour as Margaret
- Rob Newman as Father McGarry
- Dawn Bradfield as Geraldine
- Patrick Bergin as Peter (as Patrick Connolly Bergin)
- Michael Liebman as Warden Mark (as Michael Liebman)
- Marc O'Shea as Kevin Wheelan
- Sarah Boyd-Wilson as Ann Bates
- Dean Pritchard as Patsy
- Ita Campbell as Nuala
- Christian McCashin as Young Soldier
- Carol Moore as Mrs Quinn
- Gerry McColgan as Magistrate
- Roisin Loughrey as Defence Lawyer
- Abbie Spallen as Warden Susan
- Maeve Murphy as Roisin
- Nessa Millet as Marie
- Robbie Fry as Dr Carson
- Colm Ó Maonlaí as Conor
Who talks, scene by scene
We couldn't read who says what in this film's script, so there's no dialogue chart for it yet.
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, 83 are women's.
33 lines from women, 7 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
7 women and 5 men in the cast. 5 women and 4 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 22 of 216.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 25 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 71% of the words (36), men 29% (15). Women have 83% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
Exhibit D: the test the other way
Run the other way, for men, the film scores 1 out of 3.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
0
Two men
0
Exhibit E: behind the camera
2 of the 2 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 100% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Maeve Murphy (woman)
- Written by
- Maeve Murphy (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Directing
1 women, 0 men
-
Writing
1 women, 0 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 36 on average. Men: 43 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Dawn Bradfield 30, Cara Seymour 37, Orla Brady 40
Men
Rob Newman 36, Patrick Bergin 50
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 1 scenes and 216 lines of dialogue. How the test works
