Bechdel Test Movie List

/bech·del test/ n.
1. It has to have at least two [named] women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man

[[3]] Get Smart, Again! (1989) [imdb]

This movie passed 3 of 3 tests. It was entered by Brian-M on 2010-12-13 08:43:35.

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Brian-M said:
The second Get Smart movie. 15 years after CONTROL was disbanded, KAOS is back and Maxwell Smart is recalled to active duty.

Strangely, IMDB mistakenly lists this as TV rather than a movie. (But they get it right in the storyline section, describing it as the "second Maxwell Smart movie".)

This just barely passes all three tests during a the scene near the start of the movie when 99 asks her editor Lisa about who has read her manuscript. There are no other conversations between women in the movie.

(I'm counting 99 as a named character because it was a tradition in the series that even Max didn't know her real name. This has been maintained in the movie. As far as the Bechdel test, "99" serves the purpose of a name as it's used as a name throughout the movie.)
Message posted on 2010-12-13 08:43:36
Brian-M said:
Possibly IMDB lists this as TV because it was a made-for-TV movie, and was never shown in cinemas.
Message posted on 2010-12-13 12:41:02

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