Comments on: Repeat after me. Write down the movies you see.

Question: Repeat after me. Write down the movies you see.

strangeleftydoublethink — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:53:38 -0800

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.

By: spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints

spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:01:32 -0800

Are you sure it's not a scene from Reno 911?

By: sharkfu

sharkfu — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:01:47 -0800

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.

By: strangeleftydoublethink

strangeleftydoublethink — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:08:10 -0800

Maybe I had watched that while staying in a hotel (I don't have cable at home). Must be it.

By: strangeleftydoublethink

strangeleftydoublethink — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:10:51 -0800

Nope. I spoke too soon. The woman who played in this scene was definitely Jennifer Coolidge.

By: strangeleftydoublethink

strangeleftydoublethink — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:12:37 -0800

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.

By: drjimmy11

drjimmy11 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:05:52 -0800

was it in "best in show?"

By: strangeleftydoublethink

strangeleftydoublethink — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:17:03 -0800

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?

By: nkknkk

nkknkk — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:24:39 -0800

I'm fairly confident it's not Best in Show...

By: unixrat

unixrat — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:48:07 -0800

Annette Bening in -American Beauty-?

By: stefnet

stefnet — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:44:43 -0800

I don't recall Jennifer Coolidge doing that in any of Christopher Guest's movies.

By: oblio_one

oblio_one — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:00:37 -0800

Annette Bening in -American Beauty-?

Those were self help phrases.

By: kandinski

kandinski — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:07:10 -0800

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.