Passes the Bechdel test

The Haunted Mansion

Name: The Haunted Mansion
Released: 2003

2003. Directed by Rob Minkoff, written by David Berenbaum.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
9 women characters. 3 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 2 scenes out of 62.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

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The film

Realtor workaholic Jim Evers and his wife and business partner Sara gets a call late one night from mansion owner Edward Gracey, who is looking to sell his property. Smelling the biggest deal of their career, Jim, Sara and their two children pay a visit to the mansion, located on a remote bayou. A torrential thunderstorm of mysterious origin strands the Evers family in the old mansion with the brooding, eccentric Gracey, his mysterious butler, Ramsley, and a variety of residents both seen and unseen. At first Jim scoffs at Gracey's stories about ghosts and hauntings, until he unearths the mystery of the mansion and finds that his wife Sara has unexpected connections to its haunted past!

Released: 26 Nov 2003
Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Rated: PG
IMDb: 5.3 / 10
Metascore: 34 / 100
Awards: 1 win & 4 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Jim 321 lines, man
Megan 97 lines, woman
Sara 85 lines, woman
Gracey 59 lines, man
Ramsley 53 lines, man
Michael 41 lines, man
Ezra 33 lines, man
Leota 27 lines, woman
Phineas 26 lines, man
Gus 10 lines

Full cast, 30 people

Eddie Murphy as Jim Evers
Marsha Thomason as Sara Evers
Terence Stamp as Ramsley
Nathaniel Parker as Master Gracey
Jennifer Tilly as Madame Leota
Dina Spybey-Waters as Emma
Wallace Shawn as Ezra
Marc John Jefferies as Michael Evers
Aree Davis as Megan Evers
Jim Doughan as Mr. Coleman
Rachael Harris as Mrs. Coleman
Steve Hytner as Mr. Silverman
Heather Juergensen as Mrs. Silverman
Jeremy Howard as Hitchhiking Ghost
Deep Roy as Hitchhiking Ghost
Clayton Martinez as Hitchhiking Ghost
Bridget Brno as Tiki Lounge Customer
Gregg London as Tiki Lounge Customer
John Alexander as Tea Ghost
Zach Minkoff as Boy on Bicycle
Shelby Grimm as The Singing Busts
Jim Campbell as The Singing Busts
William T. Lewis as The Singing Busts
Tim Reeder as The Singing Busts
Bob Hartley as The Singing Busts
Corey Burton as Ghost Host (voice) (uncredited)
Heather Ann Smith as Ballroom Ghost
Martin Klebba as Pickwick (uncredited)
Kelly Stables as Queen Ghost (uncredited)
Derek Mears as French Duellist (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 5% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 62

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 2	0	0
3 to 4	0	7
5 to 6	1	7
7 to 8	16	21
9 to 10	2	6
11 to 12	23	46
13 to 14	18	50
15 to 16	2	12
17 to 18	6	20
19 to 20	17	21
21 to 22	7	2
23 to 24	8	19
25 to 26	10	27
27 to 28	25	37
29 to 30	7	32
31 to 32	9	51
33 to 34	7	25
35 to 36	14	21
37 to 38	5	7
39 to 40	2	7
41 to 42	6	11
43 to 44	4	21
45 to 46	2	31
47 to 48	0	1
49 to 50	3	5
51 to 52	2	1
53 to 54	2	3
55 to 56	1	2
57 to 58	6	39
59 to 60	0	1
61 to 62	8	13

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.

MEGAN: Yeah, right. Sure we will. SARA: My God, look at these designs. Where did this stone come from? It looks like it must be, at least from the seventeenth century.

MEGAN: We couldn't sleep, so we figured we'd take a walk. SARA: Take a walk? Well, I don't think that's a very good idea, Megan. This isn't your house you know. Now go back to your rooms and I'll see you … MEGAN: Okay, mom.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 28 are women's.

213 lines from women, 546 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

9 women and 16 men in the cast. 3 women and 5 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 13 of 800. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 30 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 21% of the words (2,047), men 79% (7,521). Women have 28% 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

2 of the 11 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 19% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Rob Minkoff (man)
Written by: David Berenbaum (man)
Produced by: Andrew Gunn (man), Don Hahn (man), Ben Apley (gender not listed)
Shot by: Remi Adefarasin (man)
Edited by: Priscilla Nedd-Friendly (woman), Carsten Becker (gender not listed), Justine Gerenstein (gender not listed)
Music by: Mark Mancina (man)
Costumes by: Mona May (woman)