Passes the Bechdel test

The Croods

Name: The Croods
Released: 2013

2013. Directed by Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders, written by Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders and John Cleese.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
3 women characters. 6 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 5 scenes out of 24.
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

"The Croods" are an eccentric family of cavemen, who survive the harsh terrain by living accordingly to a strict set of rules. But when their home is destroyed in the wake of an impending disaster known as "The End", they are forced to leave their home of shelter and security, and into the wilderness of the unknown to find a new home.

Released: 22 Mar 2013
Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Rated: PG
IMDb: 7.1 / 10
Metascore: 55 / 100
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 46 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Grug 243 lines, man
Eep 146 lines, woman
Guy 145 lines, man
Thunk 84 lines, man
Ugga 67 lines, woman
Gran 45 lines, woman
Belt 11 lines, man
Croods 5 lines, man
Sandy 4 lines, man
On Grug 3 lines, man

Full cast, 8 people

Nicolas Cage as Grug (voice)
Emma Stone as Eep (voice)
Ryan Reynolds as Guy (voice)
Catherine Keener as Ugga (voice)
Cloris Leachman as Gran (voice)
Clark Duke as Thunk (voice)
Chris Sanders as Belt (voice)
Randy Thom as Sandy (voice)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 1 scene, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 1% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 24

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 1	13	17
2 to 2	10	19
3 to 3	26	34
4 to 4	0	0
5 to 5	0	0
6 to 6	0	0
7 to 7	7	7
8 to 8	1	2
9 to 9	21	28
10 to 10	20	17
11 to 11	36	77
12 to 12	26	48
13 to 13	7	10
14 to 14	5	28
15 to 15	6	19
16 to 16	12	24
17 to 17	21	36
18 to 18	22	76
19 to 19	15	25
20 to 20	0	0
21 to 21	0	2
22 to 22	0	6
23 to 23	0	6
24 to 24	14	19

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

UGGA: Mom, we're ready to leave. Mom! GRAN: Still alive!

UGGA: Eep? EEP: You'll never believe it. I found something new.

EEP: Wait. Wait! UGGA: Eep. Stay inside the family kill circle. EEP: It wasn't bad.

UGGA: Ooh, more fire babies. EEP: Hi.

GRAN: Get out! Out! UGGA: Eat up, babies! GRAN: Die! Die! GRAN: I win!

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 34 are women's.

262 lines from women, 500 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

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

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 2 of 771. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 35 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 32% of the words (1,721), men 68% (3,662). Women have 34% 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

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

4 of the 16 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 20% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Chris Sanders (man), Kirk DeMicco (man)
Written by: Chris Sanders (man), Kirk DeMicco (man)
Story by: John Cleese (man), Chris Sanders (man), Kirk DeMicco (man)
Produced by: Kristine Belson (woman), Jane Hartwell (woman), Bruce Seifert (gender not listed)
Shot by: Yong Duk Jhun (man)
Edited by: Darren T. Holmes (man)
Music by: Alan Silvestri (man)
Production design by: Christophe Lautrette (gender not listed)
Cast by: Leslee Feldman (woman), Christi Soper Hilt (woman)