Passes the Bechdel test

Win Win

Name: Win Win
Released: 2011

2011. Directed by Tom McCarthy, written by Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
13 women characters. 7 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 4 scenes out of 132.
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, though someone marked that rating as dubious.

The film

Disheartened attorney Mike Flaherty (Giamatti), who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete through some questionable business dealings while trying to support his family. Just as it looks like he will get a double payday, the boy's mother shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything.

Released: 15 Apr 2011
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Rated: R
IMDb: 7.1 / 10
Metascore: 75 / 100
Awards: 5 wins & 22 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

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

Mike 441 lines, man
Jackie 185 lines, woman
Kyle 168 lines, man
Terry 135 lines, man
Cindy 59 lines, woman
Vigman 53 lines, man
Leo 35 lines, man
Shelly 27 lines, woman
Abby 24 lines, woman
Stemler 22 lines, man

Full cast, 33 people

Paul Giamatti as Mike Flaherty
Amy Ryan as Jackie Flaherty
Bobby Cannavale as Terry Delfino
Jeffrey Tambor as Vigman
Burt Young as Leo Poplar
Melanie Lynskey as Cindy Timmons
Alex Shaffer as Kyle
Margo Martindale as Eleanor
David Thompson as Stemler
Nina Arianda as Shelly
Mike Diliello as Jimmy Reed
Marcia Haufrecht as Gina Flaherty
Sharon Wilkins as Judge Lee
Clare Foley as Abby
Penelope Kindred as Stella
Sophie Kindred as Stella
Tim Ransom as Stuart Thatcher
Nicholas Somers as BHS Coach
Jacqueline Brogan as Woman Jogging
Marceline Hugot as Woman Jogging
Edmund Ikeda as Frank
Joseph Tiboni as Steve Deluca / Principal
Pam Levine as Church Soloist
Darren Goldstein as Sheffield Coach
Dariusz M. Uczkowski as Zachary Lowenstein
Earl Baker Jr. as Staff Member
Nicholas Lopez as Anthony Pizzno
Austin Ward as Peter Molter
Emma Degerstedt as Miss Durrance (uncredited)
Joanna Theobalds as Gina (uncredited)
Jill DeMonstoy as Wrestling Mom (uncredited)
Tom McArdle as Wrestling Match Announcer (uncredited)
Cliff Moylan as Contractor (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 1% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 132

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	1	0
4 to 6	20	7
7 to 9	5	4
10 to 12	5	29
13 to 15	0	5
16 to 18	7	15
19 to 21	0	58
22 to 24	0	4
25 to 27	8	36
28 to 30	0	0
31 to 33	16	10
34 to 36	6	17
37 to 39	13	22
40 to 42	8	17
43 to 45	3	15
46 to 48	8	9
49 to 51	8	13
52 to 54	13	37
55 to 57	0	18
58 to 60	5	21
61 to 63	8	9
64 to 66	4	43
67 to 69	8	30
70 to 72	3	13
73 to 75	3	40
76 to 78	10	24
79 to 81	5	17
82 to 84	20	35
85 to 87	0	0
88 to 90	0	0
91 to 93	0	54
94 to 96	2	16
97 to 99	27	22
100 to 102	17	26
103 to 105	0	29
106 to 108	12	14
109 to 111	1	10
112 to 114	19	27
115 to 117	16	19
118 to 120	10	35
121 to 123	12	37
124 to 126	12	23
127 to 129	11	21
130 to 132	3	11

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.

JACKIE: I'm very impressed with you keeping it up. ABBY: I don't like it. JACKIE: You do too, so stop drawing and eat.

ABBY: Yeah. JACKIE: Maybe you should show the team. 5/15/10 - FULL SHOOTING SCRIPT - WIN WIN 3 ABBY: Shit. JACKIE: Honey, you can't use that word. It's a bad word.

ABBY: Can I have more juice? JACKIE: Just a minute. 5/15/10 - FULL SHOOTING SCRIPT - WIN WIN 4

JACKIE: Wow. ABBY: That sounds like a big deal.

JACKIE: Yeah but I want to show you something. Stella, who's that? STELLA: Ky. JACKIE: She started saying it at the match today.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 27 are women's.

329 lines from women, 892 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

13 women and 14 men in the cast. 7 women and 13 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 71 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 26% of the words (2,716), men 74% (7,638). Women have 27% 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

3 of the 15 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 24% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Tom McCarthy (man)
Written by: Tom McCarthy (man)
Story by: Joe Tiboni (man), Tom McCarthy (man)
Produced by: Mary Jane Skalski (woman), Michael London (man), Tom McCarthy (man), Lisa Maria Falcone (woman)
Shot by: Oliver Bokelberg (man)
Edited by: Tom McArdle (man)
Music by: Lyle Workman (man)
Production design by: John Paino (man)
Costumes by: Melissa Toth (woman)
Cast by: Kerry Barden (man), Paul Schnee (man)