Fails the Bechdel test

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Name: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Released: 2010

2010. Directed by Oliver Stone, written by Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff and Stanley Weiser.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

1 / 3

Fails

Yes 1. At least two women
18 women characters. 5 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, though someone marked that rating as dubious.

Poster for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

The film

As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.

Released: 24 Sep 2010
Genres: Drama
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 6.2 / 10
Metascore: 59 / 100
Awards: 1 win & 4 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Jacob 377 lines, man
Gordon Gekko 119 lines, man
Winnie 80 lines, woman
Bretton Woods 77 lines, man
Robby 25 lines, man
Oleg 24 lines, man
Audry 19 lines
Zabel 14 lines, man
Hadley 12 lines
Diego 9 lines, man

Full cast, 41 people

Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko
Shia LaBeouf as Jacob Moore
Josh Brolin as Bretton James
Carey Mulligan as Winnie Gekko
Frank Langella as Lewis Zabel
Susan Sarandon as Sylvia Moore
Eli Wallach as Julie Steinhardt
Vanessa Ferlito as Audrey
Jason Clarke as Jack Schwietzer
Alexander Wraith as Jake's friend at club
John Bedford Lloyd as Bill Clark
Anna Kuchma as Office Blogger
Julianne Michelle as Natasha
Keith Middlebrook as Clark Wildman
Chuck Pfeiffer as Chuckie
Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox
Natalie Morales as Churchill Schwartz Trader
Sebastian Sozzi as Diego
Tet Wada as VIP Party Patron
Annika Pergament as Reporter
Maria Bartiromo as News Host
Waltrudis Buck as Zabel's Secretary
Catherine Wolf as Zabel's Wife
Noelle Beck as Bretton's Wife
Eloise DeJoria as Woman at the Met #1
Coralie Charriol Paul as Woman at the Met #2
Sondra James as Lady at Book Signing
Nitya Vidyasagar as James' Secretary
Sylvia Miles as Realtor
Akemi Look as Woman at Nightclub
Manu Narayan as Quant Analyst (uncredited)
Austin Pendleton as Dr. Masters
Christian Baha as Hedge Fund Chief
Eric Purcell as Jeweler
John Buffalo Mailer as Robby
Richard Stratton as Prison Cage Guard
Leonard Zimmerman as Gekko Contemporary
Frank Ciornei as Gekko's Landlord
Joan Rivers as Joan Rivers
Melissa Lee as Newscaster
Zhang Xin as Female Chinese Executive

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 10% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 123

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	16
4 to 6	0	14
7 to 9	2	46
10 to 12	0	21
13 to 15	0	12
16 to 18	0	2
19 to 21	0	29
22 to 24	0	27
25 to 27	12	30
28 to 30	1	6
31 to 33	1	3
34 to 36	0	0
37 to 39	0	0
40 to 42	6	3
43 to 45	0	32
46 to 48	0	26
49 to 51	0	33
52 to 54	10	8
55 to 57	0	0
58 to 60	0	28
61 to 63	0	10
64 to 66	0	2
67 to 69	0	17
70 to 72	0	14
73 to 75	1	23
76 to 78	0	4
79 to 81	9	14
82 to 84	0	18
85 to 87	16	15
88 to 90	0	52
91 to 93	6	11
94 to 96	0	29
97 to 99	2	3
100 to 102	0	0
103 to 105	6	33
106 to 108	2	20
109 to 111	0	10
112 to 114	7	11
115 to 117	0	6
118 to 120	0	8
121 to 123	7	50

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.

88 lines from women, 686 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

18 women and 19 men in the cast. 5 women and 8 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 40 of 863. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 157 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 11% of the words (810), men 89% (6,409).

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

Two men

Exhibit E: behind the camera

3 of the 14 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 29% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Oliver Stone (man)
Written by: Allan Loeb (man), Stephen Schiff (man), Stanley Weiser (man), Oliver Stone (man)
Produced by: Oliver Stone (man), Eric Kopeloff (man), Edward R. Pressman (man)
Shot by: Rodrigo Prieto (man)
Edited by: Julie Monroe (woman), David Brenner (man)
Music by: Craig Armstrong (man)
Production design by: Kristi Zea (woman)
Costumes by: Ellen Mirojnick (woman)