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The Spy Who Dumped Me

2018. Directed by Susanna Fogel, written by Susanna Fogel and David Iserson.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    20 women characters. 17 of them speak.
  2. Yes 2. Who talk to each other
    In 19 scenes out of 163.
  3. Yes 3. About something besides a man
    In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

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

Poster for The Spy Who Dumped Me

The film

Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon), two 30-year-old best friends in Los Angeles, are unexpectedly thrust into an international conspiracy when Audrey's ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail. Surprising even themselves, the duo jump into action, on the run throughout Europe from assassins and a suspicious-but-charming British agent as they hatch a plan to save the world.

Released
03 Aug 2018
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Rated
R
IMDb
6.1 / 10
Metascore
52 / 100
Awards
3 wins & 4 nominations total
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Audrey 341 lines, woman
  2. Morgan 249 lines, woman
  3. Sebastian 167 lines, man
  4. Drew 83 lines, man
  5. Patel 41 lines, man
  6. Wendy 20 lines, woman
  7. Roger 13 lines, man
  8. Carol 8 lines, woman
  9. Lukas 8 lines, man
  10. Nadedja 8 lines, woman
Full cast, 46 people
  • Mila Kunis as Audrey
  • Kate McKinnon as Morgan
  • Justin Theroux as Drew
  • Sam Heughan as Sebastian
  • Lolly Adefope as Tess
  • Dustin Demri-Burns as Viktor
  • Hasan Minhaj as Duffer
  • Mirjam Novak as Verne
  • Kev Adams as Bitteauto Driver Lukas
  • Gillian Anderson as Wendy
  • Ivanna Sakhno as Nadedja
  • Jane Curtin as Carol
  • Paul Reiser as Arnie
  • Fred Melamed as Roger
  • James Fleet as Tom
  • Carolyn Pickles as Marsha
  • Tom Stourton as Edward Snowden
  • Ruby Kammer as Aussie Tourist #1
  • Genevieve McCarthy as Aussie Tourist #2
  • Gyula Mesterházy as Canadian Ambassador
  • Lívia Hábermann as Canadian Ambassador's Wife
  • Hugo Bolton as CIA Analyst
  • Tamás Szabó Sipos as Fashion Show Intern
  • Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Finnish Backpacker
  • Justine Wachsberger as French Girl
  • Kevin Ezekiel Ogunleye as French Guy
  • David Iserson as Friend in the Bar
  • Nicholas Wittman as ISIS Bartender
  • László Áron as Jaguar Man
  • Ágnes Bánfalvy as Jaguar Woman
  • Blanka Györfi-Tóth as Little Girl
  • Barnabás Réti as Male Acrobat
  • András Velkov as Mustache Man
  • Anita Anand as News Anchor
  • Attila Árpa as Security Guard
  • Peter Schueller as TSA Agent
  • Vilma Szécsi as Vendor
  • Patrícia Tary as Dumb American Girl #1
  • Carolyn Cicalese as Dumb American Girl #2
  • Hanna Milovits as Dumb American Girl #3
  • Rebeka Eva Cook as Dumb American Girl #4
  • Bettina Csipszer as Dumb American Girl #5
  • Ivett Diána Bukovinszki as Dumb American Girl #6
  • Noelle Loizos as Neighbor (uncredited)
  • Hélène Cardona as French Student (voice) (uncredited)
  • Roderick Hill as Hairy Man

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 163

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 4311
5 to 822
9 to 1201
13 to 16258
17 to 201311
21 to 244421
25 to 28579
29 to 324410
33 to 36104
37 to 40138
41 to 44413
45 to 48210
49 to 5212
53 to 56326
57 to 60110
61 to 6452
65 to 6895
69 to 721711
73 to 7662
77 to 80306
81 to 8468
85 to 88102
89 to 9202
93 to 961913
97 to 1002723
101 to 1041814
105 to 10895
109 to 1121213
113 to 11693
117 to 1203921
121 to 1241113
125 to 1281926
129 to 132129
133 to 136147
137 to 1401812
141 to 14425
145 to 1482330
149 to 152813
153 to 156157
157 to 160137
161 to 16321

The evidence

  • Straight from the script
  • Counted from the script and the credits

Tap an exhibit to open it.

Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
AUDREY: Really Drew? Skid marks on your underwear? Are you eight? Was I supposed to wash this for you? Is that why you dumped me? I didn’t mother yo… MORGAN: Fuck you and wipe your own ass! AUDREY: Your Fantasy Football trophy for SECOND place? And you saved it? MORGAN: It’s not even real football. It’s a fucking fantasy.
AUDREY: We have to get the fuck out of here! MORGAN: Oh my God, Drew! AUDREY: We have to go. Now!
AUDREY: I just killed someone... oh my god Morgan, I just killed someone... MORGAN: Don’t think about it! Keep running! AUDREY: I killed someone! MORGAN: Stop yelling that!
AUDREY: Keep moving. There are cameras everywhere. MORGAN: I got us changes of clothes. MORGAN: They really play up that Mozart’s from here. Really downplay that Hitler’s from here. AUDREY: What else did you get?
MORGAN: No, I get it. I get it. MORGAN: Thanks anyway. It was beautiful meeting you two. AUDREY: Have a great time in Poland. MORGAN: Now!

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 65 are women's.

661 lines from women, 356 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

20 women and 21 men in the cast. 17 women and 16 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 2 of 1,036. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 10 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

  • First line by a woman
  • Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 66% of the words (7,589), men 34% (3,919). Women have 65% 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

Exhibit F: behind the camera

7 of the 14 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 32% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Susanna Fogel (woman)
Written by
Susanna Fogel (woman), David Iserson (man)
Produced by
Brian Grazer (man), Erica Huggins (woman)
Shot by
Barry Peterson (man)
Edited by
Jonathan Schwartz (man)
Music by
Tyler Bates (man)
Production design by
Marc Homes (man)
Costumes by
Alex Bovaird (woman)
Cast by
Jennifer L. Smith (woman), Deborah Aquila (woman), Theo Park (man), Tricia Wood (woman)

The crew, department by department

  • Other crew

    6 women, 21 men, 27 not listed

  • Production

    12 women, 12 men, 5 not listed

  • Sound

    7 women, 14 men, 6 not listed

  • Art

    0 women, 3 men, 1 non-binary, 15 not listed

  • Camera

    0 women, 7 men, 9 not listed

  • Costume & Make-Up

    3 women, 0 men, 10 not listed

  • Editing

    0 women, 2 men, 4 not listed

  • Directing

    1 women, 2 men, 2 not listed

  • Women
  • Men
  • Non-binary
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 36 on average. Men: 37 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Lolly Adefope 27, Mila Kunis 34, Kate McKinnon 34, Mirjam Novak 37, Gillian Anderson 49

Men

Kev Adams 27, Hasan Minhaj 32, Sam Heughan 38, Dustin Demri-Burns 40, Justin Theroux 46

Exhibit H: the money

It made 84% of what it cost.

Budget
$40 million
Box office
$33.6 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 163 scenes and 1,036 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works

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