Fails the Bechdel test
The Replacements
2000. Directed by Howard Deutch, written by Vince McKewin.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
1 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
8 women characters. 2 of them speak. -
No
2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.
Second opinion
Disagree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.
The film
A comedy based on the 1987 professional football players' strike. Gene Hackman plays the coach of the team, Jack Warden is the owner, Brett Cullen is the All-Pro quarterback that goes on strike and Keanu Reeves is the "scab" who replaces the star QB.
- Released
- 11 Aug 2000
- Genres
- Comedy, Sport
- Rated
- PG-13
- IMDb
- 6.7 / 10
- Metascore
- 30 / 100
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Shane 168 lines, man
- Mcginty 79 lines, man
- Annabelle 57 lines, woman
- O'Neil 37 lines, man
- Madden 32 lines, man
- Summerall 24 lines, man
- Al 21 lines
- Martel 17 lines, man
- Evans 16 lines, man
- Lee 16 lines, man
Full cast, 31 people
- Keanu Reeves as Shane Falco
- Gene Hackman as Jimmy McGinty
- Brooke Langton as Annabelle Farrell
- Orlando Jones as Clifford Franklin
- Faizon Love as Jamal Jackson
- Jon Favreau as Daniel Bateman
- Rhys Ifans as Nigel 'The Leg' Gruff
- Keith David as Lindell
- Ace Yonamine as Jumbo
- Troy Winbush as Walter Cochran
- David Denman as Brian Murphy
- Michael Jace as Earl Wilkinson / Ray Smith
- Gailard Sartain as Pilachowski
- Brett Cullen as Eddie Martel
- Jack Warden as Edward O'Neil
- Michael Taliferro as Andre Jackson
- Robyn Peterson as Mrs. O'Neil
- Kevin Reid as Detroit Quarterback
- Sarah Ann Morris as Heather
- Caroline Keenan as Dawn
- Elisa Nixon as Red-Haired Cheerleader
- Stella Choe as Asian Cheerleader
- Evan Parke as Malcolm La Mont
- John Madden as Himself
- Pat Summerall as Himself
- Art LaFleur as Banes
- Michelle Johnston as Fumiko's Girl
- Justin Riemer as Dallas Linebacker
- Martin Wright as Butler
- Ol' Dirty Bastard as O.D.B.
- Laura L. Cottrel as Sentinal Cheerleader
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 14% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 85
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 to 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 to 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 7 to 8 | 0 | 17 |
| 9 to 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 11 to 12 | 0 | 39 |
| 13 to 14 | 0 | 7 |
| 15 to 16 | 0 | 27 |
| 17 to 18 | 3 | 5 |
| 19 to 20 | 0 | 11 |
| 21 to 22 | 0 | 8 |
| 23 to 24 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 to 26 | 0 | 29 |
| 27 to 28 | 7 | 21 |
| 29 to 30 | 8 | 44 |
| 31 to 32 | 0 | 11 |
| 33 to 34 | 0 | 5 |
| 35 to 36 | 0 | 2 |
| 37 to 38 | 0 | 60 |
| 39 to 40 | 0 | 2 |
| 41 to 42 | 0 | 7 |
| 43 to 44 | 0 | 7 |
| 45 to 46 | 3 | 30 |
| 47 to 48 | 9 | 6 |
| 49 to 50 | 13 | 11 |
| 51 to 52 | 7 | 5 |
| 53 to 54 | 0 | 3 |
| 55 to 56 | 4 | 3 |
| 57 to 58 | 0 | 3 |
| 59 to 60 | 0 | 24 |
| 61 to 62 | 5 | 23 |
| 63 to 64 | 6 | 7 |
| 65 to 66 | 0 | 0 |
| 67 to 68 | 0 | 20 |
| 69 to 70 | 0 | 21 |
| 71 to 72 | 0 | 1 |
| 73 to 74 | 0 | 4 |
| 75 to 76 | 1 | 3 |
| 77 to 78 | 0 | 6 |
| 79 to 80 | 0 | 1 |
| 81 to 82 | 0 | 24 |
| 83 to 84 | 2 | 17 |
| 85 to 85 | 0 | 18 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 11 are women's.
68 lines from women, 548 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
8 women and 22 men in the cast. 2 women and 16 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 126 of 713.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 129 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 9% of the words (626), men 91% (6,128). Women have 11% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
Exhibit D: 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
0
Two men
36
Exhibit E: behind the camera
3 of the 11 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 17% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Howard Deutch (man)
- Written by
- Vince McKewin (man)
- Produced by
- Dylan Sellers (man)
- Shot by
- Tak Fujimoto (man)
- Edited by
- Seth Flaum (man), Bud S. Smith (man)
- Music by
- John Debney (man)
- Production design by
- Dan Bishop (man)
- Costumes by
- Jill M. Ohanneson (woman)
- Cast by
- Mary Gail Artz (woman), Barbara Cohen (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Other crew
2 women, 7 men, 1 not listed
-
Production
2 women, 6 men, 1 not listed
-
Sound
0 women, 3 men
-
Art
0 women, 2 men
-
Directing
0 women, 2 men
-
Editing
0 women, 2 men
-
Camera
0 women, 1 men
-
Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 0 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 29 on average. Men: 39 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Brooke Langton 29
Men
Troy Winbush 30, Orlando Jones 32, Faizon Love 32, Jon Favreau 33, Rhys Ifans 33, Keanu Reeves 35, Keith David 44, Gene Hackman 70
Exhibit G: the money
It made 1.0 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $50 million
- Box office
- $50.1 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 85 scenes and 713 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
