Help me find movies not about food that have prominent food scenes?
June 30, 2017 9:39 PM Subscribe
I'm looking for movies not primarily about food that have scenes where food plays a prominent role.
No Julie and Julia, Ratatouille, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, or other movies that are specifically about food.
Examples of what I'm looking for include the Marx Brothers' film A Night at the Opera, which features a great gag sequence where Harpo and Chico are being handed absurd amounts of Italian food and a funny bit where Groucho is ordering food for them in a cruise liner. Another example would be The Godfather, which has a scene where a character tells you his pasta sauce recipe and of course, a famous line featuring cannoli.
No Julie and Julia, Ratatouille, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, or other movies that are specifically about food.
Examples of what I'm looking for include the Marx Brothers' film A Night at the Opera, which features a great gag sequence where Harpo and Chico are being handed absurd amounts of Italian food and a funny bit where Groucho is ordering food for them in a cruise liner. Another example would be The Godfather, which has a scene where a character tells you his pasta sauce recipe and of course, a famous line featuring cannoli.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show has a scene involving food - and it also involves the musician Meat Loaf. I don't want to include any spoilers, so let's just say it's a scene that most people remember.
posted by MexicanYenta at 9:47 PM on June 30, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by MexicanYenta at 9:47 PM on June 30, 2017 [3 favorites]
Well, Goodfellas has at least two that I can think of: One where Tommy, Henry and Jimmy have all gone to Tommy's house to eat his mother's cooking. PS: Tommy's mother was actually played by Scorsese's mother, who improvised most of her lines.
The other is when we see their mafia boss' prison cell is actually luxuriously appointed with a standing kitchen where he's making himself an entire multiple course meal with fresh ingredients.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 9:49 PM on June 30, 2017 [5 favorites]
The other is when we see their mafia boss' prison cell is actually luxuriously appointed with a standing kitchen where he's making himself an entire multiple course meal with fresh ingredients.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 9:49 PM on June 30, 2017 [5 favorites]
There's also the Pale Man scene from Pan's Labyrinth, which is iconic enough to be what most people remember about the movie.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 9:50 PM on June 30, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 9:50 PM on June 30, 2017 [4 favorites]
The "Courtesan au Chocolat" pastry figures a lot in The Grand Budapest Hotel.
posted by paperback version at 9:51 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by paperback version at 9:51 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
The main character's parents in Spirited Away turn into giant pigs after eating spooky ghost food, which sets the whole plot in motion. (Too weird?)
posted by mcfighty at 9:52 PM on June 30, 2017 [6 favorites]
posted by mcfighty at 9:52 PM on June 30, 2017 [6 favorites]
The Blues Brothers:
Fancy Restaurant
Soul Food Cafe
posted by Confess, Fletch at 9:53 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
Fancy Restaurant
Soul Food Cafe
posted by Confess, Fletch at 9:53 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
Stand By Me has a pie eating/vomiting scene.
Cool Hand Luke has a pivotal egg-eating scene.
posted by skewed at 9:55 PM on June 30, 2017 [7 favorites]
Cool Hand Luke has a pivotal egg-eating scene.
posted by skewed at 9:55 PM on June 30, 2017 [7 favorites]
Immediately thought of the chocolate cake scene from Matilda.
posted by caitcadieux at 9:56 PM on June 30, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by caitcadieux at 9:56 PM on June 30, 2017 [4 favorites]
The first Matrix when the character eats the "steak" within the Matrix and discusses how the Matrix had fooled him into thinking it was real food. Also the whole conversation about "tasty wheat".
Cool Hand Luke - "No man can eat 50 eggs", Opening scene in Meet me in St Louis with the family criticizing the ketchup and Pulp Fiction with the "Le Royal with Cheese".
Diner scene from When Harry Met Sally: "I'll have what she's having".
Ghostbusters: "That's one big Twinkie" and also they fight a food icon, the Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man
posted by Toddles at 9:57 PM on June 30, 2017 [5 favorites]
Cool Hand Luke - "No man can eat 50 eggs", Opening scene in Meet me in St Louis with the family criticizing the ketchup and Pulp Fiction with the "Le Royal with Cheese".
Diner scene from When Harry Met Sally: "I'll have what she's having".
Ghostbusters: "That's one big Twinkie" and also they fight a food icon, the Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man
posted by Toddles at 9:57 PM on June 30, 2017 [5 favorites]
I know you said movies, but I really like the "Best Burger in New York" episode of HIMYM. It is not actually about the burger, in the end.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 9:58 PM on June 30, 2017
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 9:58 PM on June 30, 2017
Pee-wee's Breakfast Machine (A bit later, there's a bit about gum, if that counts as food. Spearmint? Or fruit?)
Food Mart Snacks in Reality Bites.
posted by kittyb at 9:59 PM on June 30, 2017 [3 favorites]
Food Mart Snacks in Reality Bites.
posted by kittyb at 9:59 PM on June 30, 2017 [3 favorites]
Eraserhead has a memorable scene involving chicken.
posted by dilaudid at 9:59 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by dilaudid at 9:59 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
How could I forget the eating machine scene in Modern Times?
posted by kittyb at 10:02 PM on June 30, 2017
posted by kittyb at 10:02 PM on June 30, 2017
Best answer: I would argue that Big Night isn't about food and has great (amazing!) food scenes.
I just showed someone the trailer and they say they think it's about food, so take my advice with a grain of salt. We collaborated on this list:
The Errol Flynn Robin Hood has a great feast scene.
Alice in Wonderland has the tea party.
Pretty Woman's escargot scene is one I like.
Denethor failing to eat a tomato while pippin sings to him in Return of the King.
In Ocean's 11 Brad Pitt is intentionally eating something different
The quick take in the Fifth Element where they put a pill in a microwave and it comes out as a chicken dinner
posted by bilabial at 10:06 PM on June 30, 2017
I just showed someone the trailer and they say they think it's about food, so take my advice with a grain of salt. We collaborated on this list:
The Errol Flynn Robin Hood has a great feast scene.
Alice in Wonderland has the tea party.
Pretty Woman's escargot scene is one I like.
Denethor failing to eat a tomato while pippin sings to him in Return of the King.
In Ocean's 11 Brad Pitt is intentionally eating something different
The quick take in the Fifth Element where they put a pill in a microwave and it comes out as a chicken dinner
posted by bilabial at 10:06 PM on June 30, 2017
The 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice has several great food scenes, including, memorably, Mr. Collins nattering on about "exemplary vegetables".
posted by mishafletch at 10:07 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by mishafletch at 10:07 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
The "fine dining" scene in Tom Jones!
posted by Miss T.Horn at 10:16 PM on June 30, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by Miss T.Horn at 10:16 PM on June 30, 2017 [4 favorites]
There's the climactic scene in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover - I won't spoil it further.
Korean actor Ha Jung Woo is famous for his eating scenes - Korean audiences found his eating scenes in The Yellow Sea particularly memorable.
posted by needled at 10:23 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
Korean actor Ha Jung Woo is famous for his eating scenes - Korean audiences found his eating scenes in The Yellow Sea particularly memorable.
posted by needled at 10:23 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
This is the best food scene ever in one of the greatest films ever made:
The mozzarella en carrozza scene in Bicycle Thieves.
posted by mr_roboto at 10:23 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
The mozzarella en carrozza scene in Bicycle Thieves.
posted by mr_roboto at 10:23 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
Splash when Darryl Hannah eats a lobster.
posted by hazyjane at 10:24 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by hazyjane at 10:24 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
Star Trek VI when the Enterprise has the Klingons over for dinner.
posted by Vortisaur at 10:27 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Vortisaur at 10:27 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
9 1/2 Weeks has a weird food/sex scene
A Christmas Story has a scene at the dinner table, in which we learn that the mom hasn't had a hot meal in forever, and kid brother Randy hates meatloaf
Big has a scene where Tom Hanks has no idea what to do with the fancy food at the company party.
The armadillo cake in Steel Magnolias
And it's not really about food, but Alien has a pretty memorable dinner scene.
posted by stefanie at 10:29 PM on June 30, 2017 [4 favorites]
A Christmas Story has a scene at the dinner table, in which we learn that the mom hasn't had a hot meal in forever, and kid brother Randy hates meatloaf
Big has a scene where Tom Hanks has no idea what to do with the fancy food at the company party.
The armadillo cake in Steel Magnolias
And it's not really about food, but Alien has a pretty memorable dinner scene.
posted by stefanie at 10:29 PM on June 30, 2017 [4 favorites]
Another perhaps debatable case of not being about food, Eat Drink Man Woman. Lots and lots of food, much of it quite remarkable.
posted by Bruce H. at 10:45 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Bruce H. at 10:45 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
The meatloaf scene from Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. There are other food scenes too, e.g. veal cutlets. My recollection is that a pretty noticeable percentage of the film's ~200 min. takes place in the kitchen. But the film is about the subtle tension in all aspects of the main character's daily life, like cleaning and shopping and whatnot, not food specifically.
posted by Wobbuffet at 11:00 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Wobbuffet at 11:00 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
The food scenes in Snowpiercer, highlighting the class differences.
posted by Iris Gambol at 11:01 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Iris Gambol at 11:01 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
Real Genius has a prominent scene involving popcorn.
posted by Mitheral at 11:03 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Mitheral at 11:03 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
There's the "chilled monkey brains" scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Spaceballs has a villain named Pizza the Hutt, who is actually made of pizza. Also, a parody of the scene from Alien which stefanie mentions. And countless other scenes containing food.
posted by XMLicious at 11:05 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
Spaceballs has a villain named Pizza the Hutt, who is actually made of pizza. Also, a parody of the scene from Alien which stefanie mentions. And countless other scenes containing food.
posted by XMLicious at 11:05 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
John Spartan has the best burger he'd had in years in The Demolition Man. Plus the Taco Bell thing.
posted by Mitheral at 11:06 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Mitheral at 11:06 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
Lady & The Tramp had the meatball spaghetti dinner scene.
Eating octopus in Oldboy.
posted by vunder at 11:15 PM on June 30, 2017
Eating octopus in Oldboy.
posted by vunder at 11:15 PM on June 30, 2017
Hook has a fantastic scene where Peter and the Lost Boys enjoy a delicious meal that devolves into a massive food fight.
posted by WaspEnterprises at 11:21 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by WaspEnterprises at 11:21 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
Jack Nicholson ordering a sandwich in Five Easy Pieces
posted by flourpot at 11:24 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by flourpot at 11:24 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
There is a surreal dinner featuring McDonald's in the Kingsmen: The Secret Service
posted by Mitheral at 11:25 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Mitheral at 11:25 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
The hamburger scene in Better Off Dead came to mind.
posted by guster4lovers at 11:25 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by guster4lovers at 11:25 PM on June 30, 2017 [1 favorite]
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl's explanatory exposition takes place over dinner between Barbossa and Elizabeth.
posted by Mitheral at 11:34 PM on June 30, 2017
posted by Mitheral at 11:34 PM on June 30, 2017
The iconic subplot from Zombieland: Tallahassee wants a Twinkie
posted by fireandthud at 11:37 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by fireandthud at 11:37 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]
Edgar Wright's three films Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End are known as The Cornetto Trilogy
posted by fireandthud at 11:44 PM on June 30, 2017
posted by fireandthud at 11:44 PM on June 30, 2017
Dinner at Bag End, from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 12:26 AM on July 1, 2017
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 12:26 AM on July 1, 2017
In The BFG there are several scenes about what giants eat, but they are so delightful I don't want to spoil them for anyone who hasn't seen the movie yet!
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 12:35 AM on July 1, 2017
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 12:35 AM on July 1, 2017
Not a film, but just about every episode of iZombie features a food montage as Liv prepares brains with other ingredients in a creative way.
posted by iamkimiam at 1:51 AM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by iamkimiam at 1:51 AM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
Yet another "it's not a film" but Shinya Shokudo (the fourth season may be on netflix as something like "Tokyo dinner" or "Tokyo midnight dinner stories") features food, but it's not prominent, although people do eat.
posted by Ms. Moonlight at 3:13 AM on July 1, 2017
posted by Ms. Moonlight at 3:13 AM on July 1, 2017
When Harry Met Sally has at least two, maybe more important food scenes. "I'll have what she's having" is one, another is Meg Ryan ordering her dinner at a greasy spoon. I also very much like, "Waiter, there is too much pepper in my paprikash."
posted by Night_owl at 3:36 AM on July 1, 2017
posted by Night_owl at 3:36 AM on July 1, 2017
The Big Kahuna Burger scene in Pulp Fiction also incorporates the famous "Burger Royale" line from an earlier scene. [NSFW]
This clip has both the "before and after" scenes from Kramer vs Kramer where Dustin Hoffman makes his son French toast for breakfast.
Danny McBride makes breakfast in This Is The End. (I can't find the next scene, where the rest of the guys wake up to the breakfast.)
Mr. Creosote, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
Annie Hall, lobsters.
Pee-wee's Breakfast Machine
See also, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
posted by Room 641-A at 4:01 AM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
This clip has both the "before and after" scenes from Kramer vs Kramer where Dustin Hoffman makes his son French toast for breakfast.
Danny McBride makes breakfast in This Is The End. (I can't find the next scene, where the rest of the guys wake up to the breakfast.)
Mr. Creosote, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
Annie Hall, lobsters.
Pee-wee's Breakfast Machine
See also, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
posted by Room 641-A at 4:01 AM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Trying to think of ones that haven't been mentioned yet:
Fried Green Tomatoes has a handful of food scenes. One is quite...well, it's a main ingredient of a key storyline and big secret held by some of the characters.
Quiz Show has a midnight milk-and-chocolate-cake scene in which a main character and his father reflect on the simplicity of childhood vs. the complicated scandals and life choices of adult life.
Clue and Murder by Death are both ensemble comedy/detective stories that feature dinner scenes with a lot of character development.
I Love You to Death (she tries to kill him via poisoned food) and Small Time Crooks (cookie business unexpectedly makes them $$$ but she can't outgrow her low-class background, as evidenced by her view on truffles).
Not a movie but the original run of Twin Peaks makes me very very hungry with all the talk about food (helps illustrate the town's identity, Cooper's approach to life, and misery in hospitals).
posted by Sockin'inthefreeworld at 4:09 AM on July 1, 2017
Fried Green Tomatoes has a handful of food scenes. One is quite...well, it's a main ingredient of a key storyline and big secret held by some of the characters.
Quiz Show has a midnight milk-and-chocolate-cake scene in which a main character and his father reflect on the simplicity of childhood vs. the complicated scandals and life choices of adult life.
Clue and Murder by Death are both ensemble comedy/detective stories that feature dinner scenes with a lot of character development.
I Love You to Death (she tries to kill him via poisoned food) and Small Time Crooks (cookie business unexpectedly makes them $$$ but she can't outgrow her low-class background, as evidenced by her view on truffles).
Not a movie but the original run of Twin Peaks makes me very very hungry with all the talk about food (helps illustrate the town's identity, Cooper's approach to life, and misery in hospitals).
posted by Sockin'inthefreeworld at 4:09 AM on July 1, 2017
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly has as elaborate fantasy sequence involving food.
posted by Ideal Impulse at 4:12 AM on July 1, 2017
posted by Ideal Impulse at 4:12 AM on July 1, 2017
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom has one, where odd native foods are presented and reacted to by the (arguably) horribly miscast Kate Capshaw.
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 4:20 AM on July 1, 2017
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 4:20 AM on July 1, 2017
Gosford Park was included in a "food in the arts" themed festival. I recall food service as being important in that movie-- but the food itself not as important or detailed as in Downton Abbey which started out in life as a spinoff of Gosford.
posted by BibiRose at 4:39 AM on July 1, 2017
posted by BibiRose at 4:39 AM on July 1, 2017
Several prominent and magical realism around food scenes in como agua para chocolate (like water for chocolate)
posted by meijusa at 5:11 AM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by meijusa at 5:11 AM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
I can't believe no one has mentioned this scene from Tom Jones.
posted by Dolley at 5:30 AM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Dolley at 5:30 AM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
Henry Selick's Coraline: food is a major seduction subtext into the magical world.
posted by effluvia at 6:09 AM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by effluvia at 6:09 AM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
Inglourious Basterds has the strudel scene.
posted by bring a tuba to a knife fight at 6:46 AM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by bring a tuba to a knife fight at 6:46 AM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
I love the scene from "Elf" when Buddy eats spaghetti.
posted by yes I said yes I will Yes at 7:14 AM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by yes I said yes I will Yes at 7:14 AM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
Heartburn. The character is a food writer but food features so sporadically within the movie that I'd forgotten she was supposed to be that kind of writer. But there is a pivotal scene kind of like the ones you mention.
posted by BibiRose at 7:24 AM on July 1, 2017
posted by BibiRose at 7:24 AM on July 1, 2017
Steel Magnolias has the awesome Red Velvet Armadillo cake.
posted by Confess, Fletch at 7:57 AM on July 1, 2017
posted by Confess, Fletch at 7:57 AM on July 1, 2017
Adam Sandler's movie Spanglish has a prominent sandwich scene in it. At the end of the dvd he demonstrates how to prepare the awesome sandwich.
posted by Coffeetyme at 8:44 AM on July 1, 2017
posted by Coffeetyme at 8:44 AM on July 1, 2017
Rachel Getting Married has a rehearsal dinner scene, but the food plays less of a role than the wine (and the argument that breaks out). White Christmas has a scene where Bing Crosby suggests liverwurst and milk to an insomniac Rosemary Clooney. And I can't believe people talked about Pulp Fiction without mentioning the coffee scene. Oh, speaking of coffee, there's the "famous java" in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. Also, does "leave the gun, take the cannoli" count?
posted by fedward at 9:43 AM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by fedward at 9:43 AM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
mulholland drive has some food based scenes
posted by 92_elements at 9:56 AM on July 1, 2017
posted by 92_elements at 9:56 AM on July 1, 2017
I can't find a clip online, but I remember a scene in the first Hunger Games movie where Katniss and the other tributes are presented with an incredible feast...I think it was on a dining car of the train taking them to the games.
posted by radioamy at 10:39 AM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by radioamy at 10:39 AM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
Jeunet and Caro's "Delicatessen" both is and isn't about food.
posted by Mister Moofoo at 11:17 AM on July 1, 2017
posted by Mister Moofoo at 11:17 AM on July 1, 2017
Wow I can't believe no one mentioned Beauty and the Beast (the classic 90s one). There's the Be Our Guest dinner scene/song, there's Gaston and his silly pronouncement about eating all those eggs, and there's also the dinner scene with Belle and the Beast when she wears that gold dress!
posted by FireFountain at 12:15 PM on July 1, 2017
posted by FireFountain at 12:15 PM on July 1, 2017
I've always loved the scene in The Apartment with Tony Curtis making spaghetti and using a tennis racket to drain it.
posted by veery at 12:21 PM on July 1, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by veery at 12:21 PM on July 1, 2017 [2 favorites]
Two from Luis Buñuel: The Phantom of Liberty (1974) has the great dinner party sequence where the guests are all seated on toilets around a table where no food is served. They chatter on and defecate nonchalantly and occasionally, individual guests slip away to a small, windowless room where they take food from a little cabinet and eat hastily before cleaning up, and returning to the gathering; and his earlier Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) which is about a group never quite eating a formal meal, always being thwarted. It has a memorable dream sequence where a wall of the dining room falls away suddenly, revealing an audience and the director, prompting the guests with their lines, from a script.
posted by Rash at 1:19 PM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Rash at 1:19 PM on July 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
This may be too much about food -- but I Am Love with Tilda Swinton.
posted by swheatie at 5:16 PM on July 1, 2017
posted by swheatie at 5:16 PM on July 1, 2017
There is the "meat pie" scene from, I suppose, any movie version of Titus Andronicus although the 1999 version is what comes to my mind.
posted by cranberrymonger at 9:39 PM on July 1, 2017
posted by cranberrymonger at 9:39 PM on July 1, 2017
Best answer: I'm glad you mentioned the Marx Brothers, because I am thinking of a lot of older movies. I've put links if I could find them.
The dinner scene in Bringing Up Baby
I couldn't find the whole clip I was looking for, but here are Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda heading into the dining room in The Lady Eve. The whole dinner is hysterical, and worth seeing. Best line: "The fish was a poem!"
There's a funny scene in The Palm Beach Story in which Rudy Vallee buys Claudette Colbert breakfast.
In Sullivan's Travels, Veronica Lake buys Joel McRae ham and eggs, and later, they eat in a soup kitchen.
In Midnight (1939) (one of my favorite movies, but not one that a lot of people know, in my experience) Don Ameche buys Claudette Colbert dinner in a Paris café ("I thought oysters were on the regular menu") and there is a very funny breakfast scene later in the movie ("You promised me there'd be plover's eggs!)
While you are looking at The Apartment, don't forget the scene in the Chinese restaurant. If nobody's mentioned it, it's Jack Lemmon, not Tony Curtis, who cooks the spaghetti in that movie.
That's all I've got off the top of my head. This is a fun question!
posted by zorseshoes at 9:06 PM on July 2, 2017 [3 favorites]
The dinner scene in Bringing Up Baby
I couldn't find the whole clip I was looking for, but here are Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda heading into the dining room in The Lady Eve. The whole dinner is hysterical, and worth seeing. Best line: "The fish was a poem!"
There's a funny scene in The Palm Beach Story in which Rudy Vallee buys Claudette Colbert breakfast.
In Sullivan's Travels, Veronica Lake buys Joel McRae ham and eggs, and later, they eat in a soup kitchen.
In Midnight (1939) (one of my favorite movies, but not one that a lot of people know, in my experience) Don Ameche buys Claudette Colbert dinner in a Paris café ("I thought oysters were on the regular menu") and there is a very funny breakfast scene later in the movie ("You promised me there'd be plover's eggs!)
While you are looking at The Apartment, don't forget the scene in the Chinese restaurant. If nobody's mentioned it, it's Jack Lemmon, not Tony Curtis, who cooks the spaghetti in that movie.
That's all I've got off the top of my head. This is a fun question!
posted by zorseshoes at 9:06 PM on July 2, 2017 [3 favorites]
I guess if we're talking sophisticated movies with snappy dialogue, we must include the campfire/beans scene from Blazing Saddles.
posted by zorseshoes at 9:08 PM on July 2, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by zorseshoes at 9:08 PM on July 2, 2017 [3 favorites]
Frankenstein's monster breaks bread with the blind man in The Bride of Frankenstein.
posted by Room 641-A at 7:14 AM on July 3, 2017
posted by Room 641-A at 7:14 AM on July 3, 2017
How to handle the vegetarian in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
The rice is not rice...or is it? is a scene from The Lost Boys that has stayed with me since childhood.
posted by weeyin at 6:49 PM on July 3, 2017
The rice is not rice...or is it? is a scene from The Lost Boys that has stayed with me since childhood.
posted by weeyin at 6:49 PM on July 3, 2017
There is a lovely outdoor family barbecue scene toward the end of Mike Leigh's "Secrets and Lies". It is heartwarming because many of the characters spent most of the film reeling at their changing concept of "family".
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 5:28 PM on July 4, 2017
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 5:28 PM on July 4, 2017
There's the awesome little cookout at Cousin Eddie's in the first Vacation movie.
posted by Occula at 12:11 PM on July 5, 2017
posted by Occula at 12:11 PM on July 5, 2017
Blue is the Warmest Color features a lot of spaghetti-eating.
posted by dizziest at 1:28 PM on July 5, 2017
posted by dizziest at 1:28 PM on July 5, 2017
The Great Pie Fight, Blazing Saddles
Enormous pie and weaponized whipped cream fight, Bugsy Malone
The scenes also happen to be the films' finale.
Gazpacho in Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown. There are probably other Almodovar examples.
The meat locker in Rocky.
Steak in Raging Bull (cw domestic violence)
(I haven't seen it and I'm not going to look for it, but I believe a pie plays a critical role in American Pie. Along those lines, there's also Mickey Roarke's dick-in-the-popcorn-tub trick from Diner.)
posted by Room 641-A at 4:00 PM on July 5, 2017
Enormous pie and weaponized whipped cream fight, Bugsy Malone
The scenes also happen to be the films' finale.
Gazpacho in Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown. There are probably other Almodovar examples.
The meat locker in Rocky.
Steak in Raging Bull (cw domestic violence)
(I haven't seen it and I'm not going to look for it, but I believe a pie plays a critical role in American Pie. Along those lines, there's also Mickey Roarke's dick-in-the-popcorn-tub trick from Diner.)
posted by Room 641-A at 4:00 PM on July 5, 2017
The room service dining scene at the end of 2001.
Incidentally, Adam Cadre noted, and tried to contextualize, the fact that 2001 places an unusual emphasis on eating and food.
posted by jackbishop at 7:39 AM on July 6, 2017
Incidentally, Adam Cadre noted, and tried to contextualize, the fact that 2001 places an unusual emphasis on eating and food.
posted by jackbishop at 7:39 AM on July 6, 2017
It's been a couple of decades since I watched it, but I seem to remember Lorenzo's Oil has a scene where the family eat spaghetti with their fingers.
There's also a scene in Bong Joon-Ho's monster movie The Host where the family of a missing girl feed noodles to her apparition.
posted by EXISTENZ IS PAUSED at 7:32 AM on July 7, 2017
There's also a scene in Bong Joon-Ho's monster movie The Host where the family of a missing girl feed noodles to her apparition.
posted by EXISTENZ IS PAUSED at 7:32 AM on July 7, 2017
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posted by ktkt at 9:47 PM on June 30, 2017 [2 favorites]