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

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

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

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

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