Bechdel Test Movie List

Aunt Frances, aunt Jet, Sally and Gillian talk about witchcraft, foods and stuff.
Gillian talks with Sally about the need for her to get out of bed and get back living, taking care of her daughters, etc.

I just realized today that this movie passes the Bechdel test with flying colors and I was SO HAPPY. I knew there was a reason that this is my favorite movie!

While I love this movie for the strong women characters, the positive messaging and the beautiful ending, it does not pass the third test. All talk of magic is around the spells needed for men, Gillian's boyfriend, the sheriff, Sally's husband. The talk in the bed between the sisters is about Sally's husband. The premise of the movie is around escaping a curse that is directly a result of relationships to men. I don't think this is a bad thing. I just think that the Bechdel test gets too much credit as a measure

It does pass all three tests. While an awful lot of the plot revolves around men, there are things such as Sally talking with her aunts about how she wants them to interact with her daughters.

This film also passes the reverse Bechtel test. Gary and Jimmy talk about their past.

I agree with Lizzy this whole film is around love and guys, and tbh every time they talk about witchcraft, foods and stuff it's around the situation of liking a guy, wishing for a guy or complaining about a guy, even when talking about her daughter's it's the worries about falling in love. But tbh the whole point of the movie is about a live curse not really being a witch so it's expected.

So, while the movie Does revolve around the magic and the Hex, and how it is affected because the hex is about a broken hearth And they are all heterosexual women (that we now off). The aunts do talk about a coven (no men apparently there) and at the school there are all women in the classroom and they are talking about who runs de call tree (or something like that), I mean they do mention something aboy gillys sexuality, and everyone elses husbands, but they also talk about something else. And the two employees of the store (both women) talk about The magic, not the hex.