Passes the Bechdel test
Sorry, Baby
2025. Directed by Eva Victor, written by Eva Victor.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
8 women characters. 9 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 27 scenes out of 91. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.
The film
After a tragic event, a woman finds herself alone while everyone else continues with their lives as if nothing had happened.
- Released
- 25 Jul 2025
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7.1 / 10
- Metascore
- 90 / 100
- Awards
- 36 wins & 115 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Agnes 549 lines, woman
- Lydie 267 lines, woman
- Natasha 78 lines, woman
- Gavin 59 lines, man
- Decker 57 lines, man
- Pete 47 lines, man
- Eleanor 33 lines, woman
- Willie 25 lines
- Sam 24 lines
- Elizabeth 22 lines, woman
Full cast, 29 people
- Eva Victor as Agnes
- Naomi Ackie as Lydie
- Louis Cancelmi as Preston Decker
- Kelly McCormack as Natasha
- Lucas Hedges as Gavin
- John Carroll Lynch as Pete
- Hettienne Park as Eleanor Winston
- E.R. Fightmaster as Fran
- Cody Reiss as Devin
- Jordan Mendoza as Logan
- Anabel Graetz as Professor Wilkinson
- Jonathan Myles as The Man She Thought Was Decker
- Danny Diaz as Student
- Marc Carver as Doctor
- Liz Bishop as Elizabeth
- Natalie Rotter-Laitman as Claire
- Francesca D'Uva as Grocery Store Gianna
- Alison Wachtler as Clerk
- David J. Curtis as Judge
- Priscilla Manning as Andrea Fuller
- Kate Fitzgerald as Tracey Dover
- Jesse Gabbard as Hector Woguard
- Lucien Spelman as Kevin Faber
- Tom Ford as Walter
- Celeste Oliva as Sophie
- Chhoyang Cheshatsang as Thomas
- Conor Sweeney as Jeremy
- Lensley Miles Adam as Baby Jane
- Langston Shelby Moore as Baby Jane Double
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 10% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 91
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 to 4 | 28 | 0 |
| 5 to 6 | 2 | 0 |
| 7 to 8 | 36 | 0 |
| 9 to 10 | 25 | 9 |
| 11 to 12 | 21 | 0 |
| 13 to 14 | 31 | 12 |
| 15 to 16 | 81 | 16 |
| 17 to 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 to 20 | 54 | 0 |
| 21 to 22 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 to 24 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 to 26 | 12 | 0 |
| 27 to 28 | 10 | 12 |
| 29 to 30 | 62 | 40 |
| 31 to 32 | 2 | 0 |
| 33 to 34 | 5 | 6 |
| 35 to 36 | 1 | 1 |
| 37 to 38 | 10 | 0 |
| 39 to 40 | 48 | 0 |
| 41 to 42 | 11 | 0 |
| 43 to 44 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 to 46 | 21 | 0 |
| 47 to 48 | 49 | 20 |
| 49 to 50 | 3 | 0 |
| 51 to 52 | 0 | 0 |
| 53 to 54 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 to 56 | 0 | 0 |
| 57 to 58 | 8 | 0 |
| 59 to 60 | 7 | 0 |
| 61 to 62 | 12 | 0 |
| 63 to 64 | 50 | 0 |
| 65 to 66 | 43 | 0 |
| 67 to 68 | 52 | 21 |
| 69 to 70 | 3 | 0 |
| 71 to 72 | 19 | 7 |
| 73 to 74 | 53 | 11 |
| 75 to 76 | 12 | 3 |
| 77 to 78 | 18 | 0 |
| 79 to 80 | 8 | 4 |
| 81 to 82 | 51 | 0 |
| 83 to 84 | 12 | 8 |
| 85 to 86 | 34 | 27 |
| 87 to 88 | 2 | 1 |
| 89 to 90 | 67 | 25 |
| 91 to 91 | 55 | 0 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
AGNES: AHHH!!!! LYDIE: Fuck. Fuck, it’s so fucking cold. AGNES: HI!!!!!! LYDIE: Hi!!! Oh my god, you can see my breath--
AGNES: It’s like, “Uh, uh, uh, you like that, you like that.” LYDIE: Like, “uh, uh, yeah, that’s my dick, and it can go inside of your body!” AGNES: “That’s my dick!” LYDIE: “You like my dick?”
LYDIE: Coffee... AGNES: Mhm...
AGNES: So... are you gonna let me read it? LYDIE: Yeah but it’s not done, it’s not even a proper draft. AGNES: But it’s a draft. LYDIE: It’s definitely a draft.
AGNES: It’s interesting we got through all of grad school and have absolutely no idea what chemistry is. LYDIE: That’s because we went for literature, which is mainly reading, and getting high, and then talking about what we read while still being high…
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 82 are women's.
1018 lines from women, 223 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
8 women and 9 men in the cast. 9 women and 9 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
A woman speaks the first line.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 49 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 79% of the words (7,282), men 21% (1,986). Women have 82% of the lines, so their lines run shorter 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
68
Two men
1
Exhibit F: behind the camera
6 of the 12 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 44% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Eva Victor (non-binary) (non-binary)
- Written by
- Eva Victor (non-binary) (non-binary)
- Produced by
- Adele Romanski (woman), Barry Jenkins (man), Mark Ceryak (man)
- Shot by
- Mia Cioffi Henry (woman)
- Edited by
- Alex O'Flinn (man), Randi Atkins (gender not listed)
- Music by
- Lia Ouyang Rusli (woman)
- Production design by
- Caity Birmingham (woman)
- Costumes by
- Emily Costantino (woman)
- Cast by
- Jessica Kelly (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Production
10 women, 15 men, 6 not listed
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Sound
3 women, 9 men, 4 not listed
-
Other crew
8 women, 1 men, 1 non-binary, 3 not listed
-
Camera
1 women, 0 men, 10 not listed
-
Art
1 women, 1 men, 6 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
2 women, 0 men, 6 not listed
-
Directing
0 women, 2 men, 1 non-binary, 3 not listed
-
Editing
0 women, 1 men, 1 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Non-binary
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 36 on average. Men: 45 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Naomi Ackie 33, Kelly McCormack 34, Hettienne Park 42
Men
Lucas Hedges 28, Louis Cancelmi 47, John Carroll Lynch 61
Exhibit H: the money
It made 1.5 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $1.5 million
- Box office
- $2.3 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 91 scenes and 1,376 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
