Passes the Bechdel test

The Jacket

Name: The Jacket
Released: 2005

2005. Directed by John Maybury, written by Tom Bleecker and Marc Rocco and Massy Tadjedin.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
10 women characters. 9 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 179.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 2 out of 3.

The film

The film centers on a wounded Gulf war veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. He is hitching and gets picked up by a stranger, things go wrong when a cop pulls them over and is murdered by a stranger. The vet is wrongly accused of the killing and lands in an asylum. A disreputable doctor prescribes a course of experimental therapy, restraining him in a modified strength straight jacket-like device, and locks him away in a cadaver drawer in the basement morgue. During the course of his treatment, he gets flashbacks and visions of his future where he can foresee that he is to die in four days time; He just doesn't know how. And thus commences the classic race against time for this tortured veteran with an expiration date.

Released: 04 Mar 2005
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Rated: R
IMDb: 7.1 / 10
Metascore: 44 / 100
Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Starks 301 lines, man
Jackie 110 lines, woman
Lorenson 92 lines, woman
Becker 83 lines, man
Waitress 46 lines, woman
Mackenzie 29 lines, man
Dr. Gries 17 lines, man
Damon 14 lines, man
Dr. Lorenson 11 lines, woman
Jean 10 lines, woman

Full cast, 33 people

Adrien Brody as Jack Starks
Keira Knightley as Jackie Price
Kris Kristofferson as Dr. Thomas Becker
Jennifer Jason Leigh as Dr. Beth Lorenson
Kelly Lynch as Jean Price
Brad Renfro as The Stranger
Daniel Craig as Rudy Mackenzie
Angel Coulby as Intern #2
Steven Mackintosh as Dr. Hopkins
Brendan Coyle as Damon
Mackenzie Phillips as Nurse Harding
Laura Marano as Young Jackie
Jason Lewis as Officer Harrison
Richard Dillane as Captain Medley
Jonah Lotan as Intern #1
Nigel Whitmey as Lieutenant
Ian Porter as Major
Angus MacInnes as Judge
Richard Durden as Dr. Hale
Tristan Gemmill as Officer Nash
Colin Stinton as Jury Foreman
Tara Summers as Nurse Nina
Anthony Edridge as Dr. Morgan (as Antony Edridge)
Teresa Gallagher as Nurse Sally
Paul Birchard as Doctor
Kerry Shale as Prosecutor
Angelo Andreou as Babak/Iraqi Boy
Anne Kidd as State Representative
Charneh Demir as Jamile/Iraqi Mother
Frances Brady-Stewart as Woman with Dog
Lolly Susi as Nurse
Garrick Hagon as Defense Lawyer
Fish as Jimmy Fleisher

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, 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 179

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 4	0	8
5 to 8	4	14
9 to 12	12	13
13 to 16	0	2
17 to 20	0	15
21 to 24	1	3
25 to 28	0	0
29 to 32	10	21
33 to 36	2	20
37 to 40	0	2
41 to 44	10	3
45 to 48	18	14
49 to 52	11	12
53 to 56	7	10
57 to 60	1	2
61 to 64	17	17
65 to 68	3	6
69 to 72	5	7
73 to 76	2	26
77 to 80	11	9
81 to 84	9	45
85 to 88	0	12
89 to 92	13	18
93 to 96	30	20
97 to 100	2	23
101 to 104	5	5
105 to 108	24	58
109 to 112	6	0
113 to 116	2	2
117 to 120	2	1
121 to 124	1	1
125 to 128	14	8
129 to 132	0	0
133 to 136	4	38
137 to 140	4	2
141 to 144	3	6
145 to 148	7	8
149 to 152	5	1
153 to 156	15	16
157 to 160	14	15
161 to 164	2	3
165 to 168	0	2
169 to 172	0	2
173 to 176	0	1
177 to 179	9	6

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.

JACKIE: Sure. JEAN: Can I help you?

JEAN: Jackie, go play in the snow. JACKIE: Why? JEAN: Just do it.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 36 are women's.

285 lines from women, 497 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

10 women and 20 men in the cast. 9 women and 18 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 19 of 802. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 36 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 33% of the words (3,046), men 67% (6,204). Women have 36% 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 13 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 25% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: John Maybury (man)
Written by: Massy Tadjedin (woman)
Story by: Marc Rocco (man)
Produced by: George Clooney (man), Peter Guber (man), Steven Soderbergh (man)
Shot by: Peter Deming (man)
Edited by: Emma E. Hickox (woman)
Music by: Brian Eno (man)
Production design by: Alan MacDonald (man)
Costumes by: Doug Hall (man)
Cast by: Laray Mayfield (woman), Nina Gold (woman)