Fails the Bechdel test
Wind Chill
2007. Directed by Gregory Jacobs, written by Joe Gangemi and Steven Katz.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
0 / 3
Fails
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No
1. At least two women
Fewer than two women characters. -
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
Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.
The film
A couple of college students known only as the Girl and the Guy are traveling home to Delaware the day before Christmas Eve. They're on a frozen road that the Guy is convinced is a scenic short-cut. In the middle of nowhere in below freezing conditions they are run off the road by a hit and runner. They soon realize they're caught in a supernatural bubble where a crime from 1953 is doomed to repeat itself, year after year threatening new victims. The Guy attempts to walk back to the last petrol station but his wounds from the crash are worse than he let on.
- Released
- 03 Aug 2007
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Horror
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 5.7 / 10
- Metascore
- 52 / 100
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Girl 251 lines, woman
- Guy 225 lines, man
- Highway Patrolman 16 lines, man
- Snowplow Driver 13 lines, man
- Brenda Lee 8 lines
- Radio Psa 5 lines
- Guy'S Ghost 3 lines
- Operator 3 lines
- Stranger 3 lines, man
- Dispatch 2 lines
Full cast, 12 people
- Emily Blunt as Girl
- Ashton Holmes as Guy
- Martin Donovan as Highway Patrolman
- Ned Bellamy as Snowplow Driver
- Ian A. Wallace as Priest
- Donny Lucas as Stranger
- Chelan Simmons as Blonde Girl
- Darren Moore as Clerk
- Linden Banks as Proctor
- Caz Odin Darko as Teenage Boy #1
- Heath Horejda as Teenage Boy #2
- Ian Thompson as Trucker (uncredited)
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 98
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 to 6 | 6 | 5 |
| 7 to 9 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 to 12 | 30 | 31 |
| 13 to 15 | 7 | 7 |
| 16 to 18 | 9 | 9 |
| 19 to 21 | 3 | 3 |
| 22 to 24 | 13 | 15 |
| 25 to 27 | 1 | 1 |
| 28 to 30 | 1 | 1 |
| 31 to 33 | 12 | 15 |
| 34 to 36 | 9 | 12 |
| 37 to 39 | 29 | 29 |
| 40 to 42 | 8 | 10 |
| 43 to 45 | 12 | 14 |
| 46 to 48 | 4 | 6 |
| 49 to 51 | 2 | 4 |
| 52 to 54 | 13 | 16 |
| 55 to 57 | 41 | 34 |
| 58 to 60 | 6 | 8 |
| 61 to 63 | 15 | 13 |
| 64 to 66 | 5 | 5 |
| 67 to 69 | 0 | 0 |
| 70 to 72 | 0 | 0 |
| 73 to 75 | 6 | 0 |
| 76 to 78 | 6 | 1 |
| 79 to 81 | 0 | 3 |
| 82 to 84 | 1 | 2 |
| 85 to 87 | 1 | 2 |
| 88 to 90 | 1 | 1 |
| 91 to 93 | 4 | 9 |
| 94 to 96 | 1 | 1 |
| 97 to 98 | 4 | 0 |
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, 49 are women's.
252 lines from women, 260 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
2 women and 9 men in the cast. 1 women and 6 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 4 of 536.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 7 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 49% of the words (2,295), men 51% (2,384).
Exhibit D: the test the other way
Run the other way, for men, the film scores 2 out of 3.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
0
Two men
1
Exhibit E: behind the camera
1 of the 11 people in these jobs is a woman.
Across the whole crew, 23% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Gregory Jacobs (man)
- Written by
- Joe Gangemi (man), Steven Katz (man)
- Produced by
- Graham Broadbent (man), Peter Czernin (man)
- Shot by
- Dan Laustsen (man)
- Edited by
- Lee Percy (man)
- Music by
- Clint Mansell (man)
- Production design by
- Howard Cummings (man)
- Costumes by
- Trish Keating (woman)
- Cast by
- Sean Cossey (man)
The crew, department by department
-
Production
0 women, 10 men, 1 not listed
-
Art
2 women, 4 men, 2 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
4 women, 1 men, 3 not listed
-
Lighting
0 women, 0 men, 7 not listed
-
Camera
0 women, 2 men, 4 not listed
-
Other crew
1 women, 4 men, 1 not listed
-
Sound
1 women, 3 men, 2 not listed
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Visual Effects
1 women, 1 men, 3 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 24 on average. Men: 43 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Emily Blunt 24, Chelan Simmons 24
Men
Ashton Holmes 29, Martin Donovan 49, Ned Bellamy 50
Exhibit G: the money
It made 5% of what it cost.
- Budget
- $6 million
- Box office
- $285,060
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 98 scenes and 536 lines of dialogue. How the test works
