Can you help me identify a movie based on a poor description of one minor character's odd mannerism?

December 12, 2008 7:13 AM

Can you help me identify a movie based on a poor description of one minor character's odd mannerism?

OK, fairly recent movie, last ten or 15 years. I think it's a good movie, whatever that means. Anyway, there's a scene, I believe toward the beginning of the film, where several people are in a meeting with a manager of some sort. The manager is either making a decision, or absorbing some information or something, and he does a funny thing with his mouth where he sort of pulls his lips down over his teeth and rapidly flips his upper lip with his tongue.

It's a minor character, and there are no easy hooks into the plot, and I just CAN'T remember what movie it's in.

The set-up of the scene reminds me, in passing, of the scene in Rushmore where Max gets asks Herman for $35,000, Herman weighs things for a moment and says, "I'll give you twenty-five hundred." The moment of contemplation, that's where the other guy does his lip move.

This is, clearly, a matter of life and death.

posted by dirtdirt to grab bag (8 comments total)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?
posted by showbiz_liz at 7:24 AM on December 12, 2008

Office Space.

The lip thing always grosses me out (and then I do it for the next hour)
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 7:25 AM on December 12, 2008

Where/when in Office Space? I'm having a hard time fitting it in...
posted by dirtdirt at 7:31 AM on December 12, 2008

I guess really, I should've included a "where/when" clause in my question. I think I'll need enough context to be able to place it in the movie.
posted by dirtdirt at 7:38 AM on December 12, 2008

A psychiatrist does something like this in Terry Gilliams Twelve Monkeys.
posted by Thug at 7:57 AM on December 12, 2008

Yeah, my first thought was Frank Gorshin's character in Twelve Monkeys. he does it when he is contemplating the room where Bruce Willis' character has disappeared from restraints and vanished while behind a locked door with no other exits.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 8:18 AM on December 12, 2008

Ding ding ding! It's Twelve Monkeys.
posted by dirtdirt at 8:26 AM on December 12, 2008

In Office Space - I believe when the Bob's offer Peter the new position - one of the Bob's pulls his upper lip back and licks his lips.

It wouldn't be this scene, but these would be the actors : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISpsK5MwnXY
posted by Brettus at 8:28 AM on December 12, 2008