Passes the Bechdel test

Whiteout

Name: Whiteout
Released: 2009

2009. Directed by Dominic Sena, written by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber and Chad Hayes.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
2 women characters. 1 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 109.
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

U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko is three days from the end of her tour at an international research station in Antarctica after which she'll resign. An incident from her past haunts her. The continent's first winter storm is coming when a body, wearing no gear, is discovered in the tundra. She investigates, soon finds more bodies, and must find a motive and a murderer before the storm and her departure. A U.N. agent, Robert Pryce, appears, seemingly out of nowhere, to help. An aging physician about to retire, a nervous mission chief, a downed Soviet plane, and the weather's deadly elements add to the story. Can Carrie trust Pryce and does she still have what it takes?

Released: 11 Sep 2009
Genres: Action, Crime, Mystery
Rated: R
IMDb: 5.5 / 10
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Carrie 275 lines, woman
Pryce 91 lines, man
Doc 67 lines, man
Delfy 51 lines, man
Murphy 31 lines, man
Rhonda 17 lines, woman
Keller 15 lines, man
Dinkle 11 lines, man
Sapperstein 8 lines
Rubin 6 lines, man

Full cast, 20 people

Kate Beckinsale as Carrie Stetko
Gabriel Macht as Robert Pryce
Tom Skerritt as Dr. John Fury
Columbus Short as Delfy
Shawn Doyle as Sam Murphy
Alex O'Loughlin as Russell Haden
Joel S. Keller as Jack
Jesse Todd as Rubin
Arthur Holden as McGuire
Bashar Rahal as Russian Pilot
Julian Cain as Russian Co-pilot
Dennis Keiffer as Russian Guard
Andrei Runtso as Russian Guard
Roman Varshavsky as Russian Guard
Steve Lucescu as Mooney
Paula Jean Hixson as Lab Tech
Marc James Beauchamp as Weiss
Sean Tucker as Operations Tech
Patrick Sabongui as Miami Prisoner
Erin Hicock as Rhonda

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 109

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	3	1
4 to 6	17	5
7 to 9	0	0
10 to 12	15	7
13 to 15	15	24
16 to 18	19	20
19 to 21	5	5
22 to 24	27	14
25 to 27	5	1
28 to 30	5	6
31 to 33	3	0
34 to 36	0	0
37 to 39	2	1
40 to 42	18	20
43 to 45	6	4
46 to 48	7	10
49 to 51	0	0
52 to 54	19	18
55 to 57	3	2
58 to 60	29	33
61 to 63	11	16
64 to 66	7	10
67 to 69	22	15
70 to 72	2	0
73 to 75	5	1
76 to 78	0	2
79 to 81	0	0
82 to 84	13	22
85 to 87	3	1
88 to 90	0	0
91 to 93	7	5
94 to 96	0	0
97 to 99	3	8
100 to 102	3	5
103 to 105	8	13
106 to 108	14	13
109 to 109	0	0

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scene

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

RHONDA: We're tracking it now. CARRIE: I need a plane to Vostok. RHONDA: I don't control the weather -- you want to stay the winter, then don't be ready for your evac. RHONDA: Sorry, can't. All the planes are committed.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 51 are women's.

296 lines from women, 282 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

2 women and 16 men in the cast. 1 women and 5 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 3 of 601. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 9 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 44% of the words (2,266), men 56% (2,836). Women have 51% of the lines, so their lines run shorter 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

6 of the 17 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 27% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Dominic Sena (man)
Written by: Jon Hoeber (man), Erich Hoeber (man), Chad Hayes (man), Carey Hayes (man)
Produced by: Joel Silver (man), Susan Downey (woman), David Gambino (man)
Shot by: Christopher Soos (man)
Edited by: Martin Hunter (man)
Music by: John Frizzell (man)
Production design by: Graham "Grace" Walker (man)
Costumes by: Wendy Partridge (woman)
Cast by: Mary Gail Artz (woman), Shani Ginsberg (woman), Andrea Kenyon (woman), Randi Wells (woman)