Passes the Bechdel test
Thoroughbreds
2018. Directed by Cory Finley, written by Cory Finley.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
7 women characters. 3 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
In suburban Connecticut, upper-class high schooler Amanda (Olivia Cooke) euthanizes her crippled horse with a knife, resulting in charges of animal cruelty. Some time later, Amanda arrives at the home of the more popular and academically-inclined Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy). The girls had previously been best friends but grew apart after the death of Lily's father. They meet under the pretense of hanging out and having a casual tutoring session, but Amanda knows that her mother (Kaili Vernoff) has paid Lily to socialize with Amanda. Lily denies being paid, but Amanda, left emotionless by an unspecified mental disorder, is unfazed. Lily meets with Amanda again, this time voluntarily, and they rekindle their friendship..
- Released
- 09 Mar 2018
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.6 / 10
- Metascore
- 75 / 100
- Awards
- 1 win & 26 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Lily 583 lines, woman
- Amanda 518 lines, woman
- Tim 111 lines, man
- Mark 61 lines, man
- Ok 6 lines
- Lil 1 lines
- Lily And Amanda 1 lines, woman
Full cast, 19 people
- Olivia Cooke as Amanda
- Anya Taylor-Joy as Lily
- Anton Yelchin as Tim
- Paul Sparks as Mark
- Francie Swift as Cynthia
- Kaili Vernoff as Karen
- Alyssa Fishenden as Jessica
- Jackson Damon as Phil
- James Haddad as Michael
- Nolan Ball as Delivery Guy
- Celeste Oliva as Receptionist
- Stephanie Atkinson as Knitting Therapist (uncredited)
- Lauren Laperriere as Mental Patient (uncredited)
- Thomas Dings as Teenager (uncredited)
- Leah Procito as Doctor (uncredited)
- Alex Wolff as Party Friend (uncredited)
- Xavier Dillingham as Party Goer (uncredited)
- Jack Norton as Mental Patient (uncredited)
- Daniel Martignetti as CT State Policeman (uncredited)
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
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
LILY: Hi Mark. AMANDA: Hey Mark. Beat.
LILY: I don’t know, some work party thing. AMANDA: I didn’t know your mom works. LILY: She’s on the board of something. It’s a board work party thing.
LILY: She doesn’t like being alone, though. AMANDA: I’m quite afraid of the dark.
LILY: I don’t think I should be alone in a car with Amanda. AMANDA: I agree. LILY: Multiple teens in one car; that’s an accident waiting to happen. AMANDA: It’s bad, yeah.
AMANDA: Lily? LILY: Yeah. I, um -- Sorry. We have been thinking that you might / be interested in-- AMANDA: We want you to kill her stepdad. Beat.
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 86 are women's.
1102 lines from women, 172 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
7 women and 6 men in the cast. 3 women and 2 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
A woman speaks the first line.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 4 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 86% of the words (10,800), men 14% (1,713).
Exhibit E: the test the other way
Run the other way, for men, the film scores 0 out of 3.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
31
Two men
0
Exhibit F: behind the camera
4 of the 14 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 31% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Cory Finley (man)
- Written by
- Cory Finley (man)
- Produced by
- Nat Faxon (man), Jim Rash (man), Alex Saks (woman), Kevin J. Walsh (man), Andrew Duncan (man)
- Shot by
- Lyle Vincent (man)
- Edited by
- Louise Ford (woman)
- Music by
- Erik Friedlander (gender not listed)
- Production design by
- Jeremy Woodward (man)
- Costumes by
- Alex Bovaird (woman)
- Cast by
- Stephanie Holbrook (woman), Douglas Aibel (man)
The crew, department by department
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Production
3 women, 10 men, 4 not listed
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Sound
5 women, 8 men, 2 not listed
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Art
2 women, 2 men, 7 not listed
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Camera
1 women, 2 men, 4 not listed
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Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 0 men, 3 not listed
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Other crew
1 women, 3 men
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Directing
0 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
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Editing
1 women, 0 men, 1 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 34 on average. Men: 31 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Anya Taylor-Joy 21, Olivia Cooke 24, Kaili Vernoff 44, Francie Swift 48
Men
Jackson Damon 18, Anton Yelchin 28, Paul Sparks 46
Exhibit H: the money
It made 57% of what it cost.
- Budget
- $5 million
- Box office
- $2.8 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 1 scenes and 1,281 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
