90’s or so.
Probably a comedy, but I’m not sure.
There’s a very funny scene, where the Mexican housekeeper and her brother (the handyman, maybe?), who have been shown not being able to speak or understand English, are sitting at the breakfast table, talking in English about their plans for the future, when the son (maybe the star of the movie), comes in. They immediately stop and go back to Spanish, and he says to them that there is no need to pretend around him - he’s known for years that they speak perfect English.
Maybe Richie Rich?
There is nobody even remotely close to the characters described by the OP in that movie, as far as I can remember.
Dunno. I saw part of it once on TV about 25 years ago and remember only Macaulay Culkin and the guy who played FDR.
If those are the only parts of the movie you remember, why did you think it would be the answer?
Because I could imagine Macaulay Culkin as a precocious little rich kid saying something like that to a couple of household servants.
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I don’t think this is right, but Spanglish?
I remember the scene you described but not the movie.
I don’t think so.
This scene was a “throwaway,” not important to the plot of the movie. It was just funny.
I think the lead was an A-lister, like Tom Cruise, or a Tom Cruise-like actor.
Yep, those sound vaguely correct to me, but it’s entirely possible my vague memories are just an inception your thread and response are feeding me, and I really never saw this scene at all.
My reaction to reading the name Tom Cruise was “Yes like that but not him.” For some reason my mind went to Kevin Costner.
EDIT: Total guess: LA Story?
Was it maybe part of a Robert Altman-esque collection of related stories, as opposed to a single story movie?
It wasn’t LA STORY.
Definitely not LA Story. I’ve seen that movie enough times to be certain the described scene is not included.
Oh - Treasure of the Sierra Madre?
If you’re still looking, it is My Tutor, from 1983, and the guy was Matt Lattanzi.
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I never would have found that - a typical ‘80s teenage sex movie.
But, that scene was very clever.
The impression I got was that it was getting back at the employers, who never bothered to learn even basic Spanish, and spoke English to them as if to a toddler.