@Katie: It wouldn’t. If what you had been told is correct, then that wouldn’t be grounds for a Bechdel failure, as far as I’m concerned.

What would be a Bechdel failure, for me, would be only two women, one of which only has one line, discussing something insignificant to the plot. Sure, if you want to count that then you can, but I think it would undermine the entire point of the test to allow it to count if two background characters muttered something to one another.

The Wikipedia page’s cast list contains only one female actor. I had to go as far as the iMDB to find other women in the film at all (other than the lead): of those, the only ones were (a) a younger version of the lead, who obviously didn’t talk to the lead, and (b) the lead’s deceased mother, who if I remember rightly only appears in flashbacks (don’t worry, there are no spoilers there).

There were a few other incidental female parts working in the same building as the lead, to begin with, but I think you’ve been misinformed. Or I’ve forgotten.