Passes the Bechdel test

The Others

Name: The Others
Released: 2001

2001. Directed by Alejandro Amenábar, written by Alejandro Amenábar.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
6 women characters. 4 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 1.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.

The film

A woman named Grace retires with her two children to a mansion on Jersey, after the end of the Second World War, where she's waiting for her husband to come back from battle. The children have a disease which means they cannot be touched by direct sunlight without being hurt in some way. They will live alone there with oppressive, strange and almost religious rules, until she needs to hire a group of servants for them. Their arrival will accidentally begin to break the rules with unexpected consequences.

Released: 10 Aug 2001
Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 7.6 / 10
Metascore: 74 / 100
Awards: Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards. 29 wins & 55 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Grace 137 lines, woman
Gr.A.Ce 115 lines, woman
Bertha 64 lines, woman
Nicholas 47 lines, man
Anne 40 lines, woman
Berth.A 40 lines
Gr.A..Ce 24 lines
Gr.Ace 22 lines, woman
Bertila 14 lines
N1cholas 13 lines

Full cast, 14 people

Nicole Kidman as Grace Stewart
Alakina Mann as Anne Stewart
James Bentley as Nicholas Stewart
Fionnula Flanagan as Mrs. Bertha Mills
Christopher Eccleston as Charles Stewart
Eric Sykes as Mr. Edmund Tuttle
Elaine Cassidy as Lydia
Keith Allen as Mr. Marlish
Renée Asherson as Old Lady
Michelle Fairley as Mrs. Marlish
Gordon Reid as Assistant
Alexander Vince as Victor Marlish
Ricardo López as Second Assistant
Aldo Grilo as Gardener

Who talks, scene by scene

We couldn't read who says what in this film's script, so there's no dialogue chart for it yet.

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.

GRACE: Well, I'm s'are you'll find plenty to keep you busy around here. BERTHA: And this young lady's called Lydia. GRACE: ~ I was hoping for someone a little more experienced.

BERTHA: 'Wny on ea.rth did chey do that? GRACE: Tnere are days when this house isn't the best place to live, as you'll soon discover. Tnat's why l put the advertisement in the newspaper as… BERTHA: Oh,· yes, ma'am. There's none more honest and hardworking than us, is there, 1-f.r. Tu!"i.le?

GR.A.CE: Let's see, you can ca.l<e charge of cleaning tb.e bedrooms every day, and at least three other rooms: the dicing room, the kitchen, and the … GR.ACE: The rooms are all ve:ry large, but contain· very litde furniture, so they won't give you a lot of trouble. ~.:\.nd y:ou can prepare lunch, t…

GRACE: You can help her whenever she needs a hand. How old are you? · BERTHA: Sixty-six.

GRACE: I'm going to wake them. Wait here. ·Whatever you do, don't open the curtains. GR.A.CE: {off) Have you had a good sleep, my little angels? Come oa., time to get up. I want you to say b.ello to someone. GRACE: Yes. GR.A.CE: Like the rest. No beci;er, no worse.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 84 are women's.

395 lines from women, 76 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

6 women and 8 men in the cast. 4 women and 5 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 8 of 646. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 12 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 92% of the words (5,203), men 8% (477). Women have 84% 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

Two women

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

3 of the 12 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 26% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Alejandro Amenábar (man)
Written by: Alejandro Amenábar (man)
Produced by: Sunmin Park (gender not listed), Fernando Bovaira (man), José Luis Cuerda (man)
Shot by: Javier Aguirresarobe (man)
Edited by: Nacho Ruiz Capillas (man)
Music by: Alejandro Amenábar (man)
Production design by: Benjamín Fernández (man)
Costumes by: Sonia Grande (woman)
Cast by: Shaheen Baig (woman), Jina Jay (woman)