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The Babysitter

2017. Directed by McG, written by Brian Duffield.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    6 women characters. 5 of them speak.
  2. Yes 2. Who talk to each other
    In 3 scenes out of 39.
  3. 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.

Poster for The Babysitter

The film

Cole (Judah Lewis) loves his babysitter (Samara Weaving) Bee. She's hot, funny, and popular. One night, in a moment of defiance, Cole secretly stays up past his bedtime to discover she's actually a cold-blooded killer who's in league with the Devil. He now must spend his night evading Bee's band of killers who will stop at nothing to prevent Cole from spilling their dark secret. It's up to Cole to survive the night (and blow up a few people along the way).

Released
13 Oct 2017
Genres
Comedy, Horror
Rated
TV-MA
IMDb
6.4 / 10
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Cole 239 lines, man
  2. Bee 193 lines, woman
  3. Melanie 37 lines, woman
  4. Allison 25 lines, woman
  5. Dad 25 lines, man
  6. Mom 24 lines, woman
  7. Max 23 lines, man
  8. Sonya 20 lines, woman
  9. Jeremy 11 lines, man
  10. John The Baptist 11 lines, man
Full cast, 22 people
  • Judah Lewis as Cole Johnson
  • Samara Weaving as Bee
  • Robbie Amell as Max
  • Hana Mae Lee as Sonya
  • Bella Thorne as Allison
  • Emily Alyn Lind as Melanie
  • Andrew Bachelor as John
  • Doug Haley as Samuel
  • Leslie Bibb as Mom
  • Ken Marino as Dad
  • Samuel Gilbert as Romeo
  • Zachary Alexander Rice as Luis
  • Doc Duhame as Cop #1
  • Jean Claude Leuyer as Cop #2
  • Miles J. Harvey as Jeremy
  • Chris Wylde as Melanie's Annoying Dad
  • Carl McDowell as School Nurse
  • Jonathan Bray as Fireman
  • Jimmy Warden as Some Asshole
  • Frederick Keeve as Convenience Store Patron (uncredited)
  • Mark Mammone as Officer Martinez (uncredited)
  • Emily Brobst as Additional Voices (voice)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 1 scene, 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 39

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 100
2 to 206
3 to 300
4 to 446
5 to 51222
6 to 698
7 to 722
8 to 800
9 to 900
10 to 10119
11 to 11025
12 to 1224
13 to 1300
14 to 1400
15 to 1565
16 to 1601
17 to 1756
18 to 1876
19 to 191816
20 to 202315
21 to 211617
22 to 223121
23 to 231513
24 to 244445
25 to 2500
26 to 2600
27 to 2701
28 to 2800
29 to 2971
30 to 302041
31 to 3101
32 to 3201
33 to 334335
34 to 3400
35 to 3500
36 to 36119
37 to 3727
38 to 3800
39 to 39237

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.
BEE: C’mere. BEE: Shhh. Shhh. It’s alright. BEE: Shhh. Just let go. SONYA: Let it go-
BEE: Don’t throw them out. Take them home, burn and then bury them. ALLISON: Bury them where? BEE: I don’t care. It’s tradition, so probably in the earth. ALLISON: Great, so I’m just gonna carry bloody rags around.
SONYA: Oh snap. BEE: Bring me the case. BEE: Oh calm down. SONYA: Is that really it?
BEE: It’s not sadistic. It’s an honor. BEE: Do you have the needle? SONYA: Yup!
ALLISON: I DON’T CARE ABOUT WHAT YOU’RE SAYING, YOU IDIOT. BEE: She was so annoying. She never ever did anything to help. She probably has a secret tumblr all about it. You know what it is? She was the ki… BEE: So tonight, huh.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 49 are women's.

311 lines from women, 330 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

6 women and 16 men in the cast. 5 women and 8 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 7 of 653. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 26 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

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

Words spoken

Women speak 54% of the words (2,899), men 46% (2,448). Women have 49% of the lines, so their lines run longer 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

Exhibit F: behind the camera

1 of the 11 people in these jobs is a woman. Across the whole crew, 20% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
McG (man)
Written by
Brian Duffield (man)
Produced by
Mary Viola (woman), Zack Schiller (gender not listed), McG (man)
Shot by
Shane Hurlbut (man)
Edited by
Martin Bernfeld (man), Peter Gvozdas (man)
Music by
Douglas Pipes (man)
Production design by
Kristen Vallow (gender not listed)
Cast by
Rich Delia (man)

The crew, department by department

  • Other crew

    2 women, 9 men, 5 not listed

  • Production

    4 women, 7 men, 5 not listed

  • Sound

    1 women, 9 men

  • Art

    0 women, 1 men, 4 not listed

  • Visual Effects

    0 women, 2 men, 3 not listed

  • Costume & Make-Up

    1 women, 1 men, 2 not listed

  • Directing

    1 women, 3 men

  • Editing

    0 women, 2 men, 2 not listed

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 26 on average. Men: 30 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Emily Alyn Lind 15, Bella Thorne 20, Samara Weaving 25, Hana Mae Lee 29, Leslie Bibb 43

Men

Judah Lewis 16, Robbie Amell 29, Andrew Bachelor 29, Doug Haley 30, Ken Marino 48

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 39 scenes and 653 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works

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