Passes the Bechdel test

Timber Falls

Name: Timber Falls
Released: 2007

2007. Directed by Tony Giglio, written by Dan Kay and Tony Giglio.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
4 women characters. 3 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 3 scenes out of 143.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

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The film

Mike and his girlfriend Sheryl travel from Virginia to Lake Kimbrabow State Park in West Virginia to spend the weekend hiking and camping in the woods. They ask for directions to the local guard that advises them to follow the Donner Trail or the Willow Creek Bridge; however, Mike meets the local Ida Forester in the crossroad that tells them that Timber Falls has magnificent landscapes and a wonderful waterfall and the couple decide to go to the place. They stumble with the troublemakers Brody, Darryl and Lonnie and Sheryl convinces Mike to get rid of the bullets for his revolver. They camp and in the morning Sheryl is abducted while bathing in a nearby lake. The desperate Mike seeks her, and finds a deranged fanatic religious family that needs them to procreate an offspring.

Released: 23 May 2008
Genres: Horror, Thriller
Rated: R
IMDb: 5.2 / 10
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Mike 204 lines, man
Sheryl 146 lines, woman
Ida 98 lines, woman
Clyde 73 lines, man
Brody 33 lines, man
Sam 24 lines, man
Darryl 19 lines, man
Evelyn 18 lines, woman
Lonnie 12 lines
Off Screen 7 lines

Full cast, 12 people

Josh Randall as Mike
Brianna Brown as Sheryl
Nick Searcy as clyde
Beth Broderick as Ida
Sascha Rosemann as Deacon
T.W. Leshner as Darryl
Ryan Wiik as Jason
Branden Morgan as Brody
Carl Bressler as Sam
Ryan McGee as Lonnie
Suzanna Urszuly as Sarah
Debbie Jaffe as Evelyn

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 4% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 143

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	1
4 to 6	0	0
7 to 9	0	1
10 to 12	11	12
13 to 15	8	23
16 to 18	14	17
19 to 21	41	63
22 to 24	18	19
25 to 27	5	6
28 to 30	7	8
31 to 33	0	0
34 to 36	0	0
37 to 39	0	3
40 to 42	0	1
43 to 45	0	21
46 to 48	37	30
49 to 51	1	0
52 to 54	5	8
55 to 57	1	0
58 to 60	1	0
61 to 63	6	20
64 to 66	2	11
67 to 69	14	3
70 to 72	5	8
73 to 75	0	0
76 to 78	1	10
79 to 81	9	3
82 to 84	6	0
85 to 87	8	29
88 to 90	0	1
91 to 93	14	25
94 to 96	0	2
97 to 99	2	5
100 to 102	12	5
103 to 105	0	1
106 to 108	0	0
109 to 111	0	1
112 to 114	5	6
115 to 117	0	3
118 to 120	8	7
121 to 123	3	0
124 to 126	0	0
127 to 129	1	0
130 to 132	0	1
133 to 135	0	0
136 to 138	2	0
139 to 141	6	1
142 to 143	9	0

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.

SHERYL: We're not Lewis and/or Clark. We're gonna stick to one of the ones the Ranger said. IDA: You folks need some help?

IDA: You're young, strong... It's gonna be easy for you. Not like me. SHERYL: Wh-what...? IDA: You're gonna have a baby, Sheryl. My baby.

SHERYL: Please, someone? Is anyone there that can help? EVELYN: This is Ranger Base, Go again?

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 42 are women's.

262 lines from women, 355 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

4 women and 7 men in the cast. 3 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 644. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 32 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 43% of the words (2,643), men 57% (3,504). Women have 42% 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

1 of the 12 people in these jobs is a woman. Across the whole crew, 18% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Tony Giglio (man)
Written by: Daniel Kay (man)
Produced by: Bruce McNall (gender not listed), Kia Jam (man), Christopher Eberts (man), Steve Markoff (man)
Shot by: Toby Moore (man)
Edited by: Peter Mergus (man)
Music by: Henning Lohner (man)
Production design by: John Welbanks (gender not listed)
Costumes by: Bobbie Read (woman)
Cast by: Todd Shotz (gender not listed)