Bechdel Test Movie List

This is a pretty strange suggestion, since the movie is primarily about the love life of a neurotic gay man. There are three main female characters: Ethan's lesbian roommate Charlotte (who has just broken up with her girlfriend), Sunny Deal (a manic depressive realtor trying to sell the home of Ethan's ex-boyfriend Leo, and who eventually starts dating Charlotte), and Harper Green (Ethan's mother, who runs a wedding catering business for LGBT weddings). Most of the conversations Harper has are with her son about his love life. Although many of the conversations Charlotte has with Ethan are about his love life, Charlotte does draw Sunny out of her depression and begins dating her. Ethan and his young boyfriend Punch walk in on them as they are preparing to have sex, and the two women are more or less blissfully unaware of them. To further complicate Bechdel testing of this film, Charlotte has a key conversation about her love life (which does not involve any man) with a friend of Ethan's known simply as one of the "Hat Sisters". The Hat Sisters are not women but gay male "aunties" who regularly dress in women's clothing (not exactly drag queens because these aren't drag personae). I don't know if "aunties" count in this context, but the conversation Charlotte had with the Hat Sister was not about a man at all. So I'm not quite sure whether this film passes the Bechdel test or not.

I haven't seen this movie at all, but do Charlotte and Sunny talk to each other about something besides a man while Charlotte draws Sunny out of her depression and begins to date her? If so, it passes the test.