Repeat after me. Write down the movies you see.

February 13, 2008 2:53 PM

Name the movie based on the only scene I can remember. An American woman is driving a car while listening to a foreign language learning tape but she is repeating the English phrases.

She's a character actor who always plays a dumb blonde.

posted by strangeleftydoublethink to Media & Arts (12 answers total)

Are you sure it's not a scene from Reno 911?
posted by spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints at 3:01 PM on February 13, 2008

This may also be in a movie, but it was definitely a scene in an episode of Reno 911: Episode 1x7 Weigel Suicide Watch , where Weigel (Kerri Kenney) repeats the english parts on a book-on-tape as she pulls into her garage, eventually passing out from the exhaust, which is mistaken for an suicide attempt.
posted by sharkfu at 3:01 PM on February 13, 2008

Response by poster: Maybe I had watched that while staying in a hotel (I don't have cable at home). Must be it.
posted by strangeleftydoublethink at 3:08 PM on February 13, 2008

Response by poster: Nope. I spoke too soon. The woman who played in this scene was definitely Jennifer Coolidge.
posted by strangeleftydoublethink at 3:10 PM on February 13, 2008

Response by poster: I've seen several of the movies under her IMDB listing but I still can't figure out which one had that scene in it. I know it was at the beginning of the movie.
posted by strangeleftydoublethink at 3:12 PM on February 13, 2008

was it in "best in show?"
posted by drjimmy11 at 4:05 PM on February 13, 2008

Response by poster: I'd have to watch it again to make sure, but I'm leaning toward one of the Christopher Guest films.

Now, who borrowed it from whom?
posted by strangeleftydoublethink at 4:17 PM on February 13, 2008

I'm fairly confident it's not Best in Show...
posted by nkknkk at 4:24 PM on February 13, 2008

Annette Bening in -American Beauty-?
posted by unixrat at 4:48 PM on February 13, 2008

I don't recall Jennifer Coolidge doing that in any of Christopher Guest's movies.
posted by stefnet at 5:44 PM on February 13, 2008

Annette Bening in -American Beauty-?

Those were self help phrases.
posted by oblio_one at 6:00 PM on February 13, 2008

Working totally from memory here, but I think you want Louis de Malle's Atlantic City, with Susan Sarandon and Burt Lancaster. Susan Sarandon's character is trying to learn French, and she repeats the lines from a pre-walkman cassette player.

Unless it was really Jennifer Coolidge, and I am totally wrong.
posted by kandinski at 3:07 AM on February 15, 2008