Fails the Bechdel test
The Rescuers Down Under
1990. Directed by Hendel Butoy and Mike Gabriel, written by Jim Cox and Karey Kirkpatrick and Byron Simpson.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
1 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
6 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
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.
The film
Since Miss Bianca and Bernard have successfully rescued Penny from Madame Medusa, the two have been making plans for their future. Bernard plans on asking Miss Bianca to marry him, but his plans on purposing to his girlfriend are soon delayed when the two receive a distress call from an 6 year old boy named Cody, who has been protecting a rare golden eagle and her eggs from a murderous poacher named Percival C. McLeach, who is wanted by the rangers for killing Marahute's mate and wants to know the location of the rare eagle, he kidnaps Cody in order to get Marahute's location from him. Miss Bianca and Bernard head to the Australian Outback with Wilbur, the brother of Orville, to save Cody and Marahute from McLeach.
- Released
- 16 Nov 1990
- Genres
- Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Rated
- G
- IMDb
- 6.8 / 10
- Metascore
- 68 / 100
- Awards
- 6 wins total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Wilbur 64 lines, man
- Bernard 63 lines, man
- Bianca 57 lines, woman
- Cody 55 lines, man
- Jake 36 lines, man
- Frank 28 lines, man
- Doctor 21 lines, man
- Krebbs 12 lines, man
- Baitmouse 7 lines, man
- Red 7 lines, man
Full cast, 23 people
- Bob Newhart as Bernard (voice)
- Eva Gabor as Miss Bianca (voice)
- John Candy as Wilbur (voice)
- Tristan Rogers as Jake (voice)
- Adam Ryen as Cody (voice)
- George C. Scott as McLeach (voice)
- Wayne Robson as Frank (voice)
- Douglas Seale as Krebbs (voice)
- Frank Welker as Joanna / Marahute (voice)
- Bernard Fox as Chairman / Doctor (voice)
- Peter Firth as Red (voice)
- Ed Gilbert as Francois (voice)
- Carla Meyer as Faloo / Mother (voice)
- Russi Taylor as Nurse Mouse (voice)
- Peter Greenwood as Radio Announcer / Airplane Captain (voice)
- Billy Barty as Baitmouse (voice)
- Mickie McGowan as International Mice (voice) (uncredited)
- Charlie Adler as Additional Voices (voice)
- Jack Angel as Additional Voices (voice)
- Vanna Bonta as Additional Voices (voice)
- Marii Mak as Additional Voices (voice)
- Patrick Pinney as Additional Voices (voice)
- Phil Proctor as Additional Voices (voice)
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: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 18 are women's.
64 lines from women, 301 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
6 women and 17 men in the cast. 2 women and 11 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 3 of 374.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 90 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 13% of the words (474), men 87% (3,075). Women have 18% 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
37
Exhibit E: behind the camera
2 of the 11 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 13% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Hendel Butoy (man), Mike Gabriel (man)
- Written by
- Jim Cox (man), Karey Kirkpatrick (man), Byron Simpson (man), Joe Ranft (man)
- Produced by
- Thomas Schumacher (man)
- Edited by
- Michael Kelly (man)
- Music by
- Bruce Broughton (man)
- Cast by
- Mary V. Buck (woman), Susan Edelman (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Visual Effects
1 women, 30 men, 23 not listed
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Writing
2 women, 15 men
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Other crew
1 women, 9 men, 1 not listed
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Production
5 women, 2 men
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Directing
0 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
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Sound
1 women, 3 men
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Art
0 women, 2 men
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Editing
0 women, 2 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 71 on average. Men: 50 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Eva Gabor 71
Men
Adam Ryen 10, John Candy 40, Tristan Rogers 44, Wayne Robson 44, Frank Welker 44, Bob Newhart 61, George C. Scott 63, Bernard Fox 63, Douglas Seale 77
Exhibit G: the money
It made 1.2 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $38 million
- Box office
- $47.4 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 1 scenes and 374 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
