# Help me find this movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 24, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/956600 "2021-12-24T18:29:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/956600/1 "2021-12-24T18:29:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/956600/2 "2021-12-24T18:38:00Z")
Maybe _ **Richie Rich** _? > **[Richie Rich (1994) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110989/)** > > Richie Rich: Directed by Donald Petrie. With Macaulay Culkin, John Larroquette, Edward Herrmann, Christine Ebersole. A rich young boy finds his family the target of an inside job, and must use his cunning to save them. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/956600/3 "2021-12-24T18:44:57Z")
There is nobody even remotely close to the characters described by the OP in that movie, as far as I can remember. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2021, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/956600/4 "2021-12-24T18:55:54Z")
Dunno. I saw part of it once on TV about 25 years ago and remember only Macaulay Culkin and the guy who played FDR. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/956600/5 "2021-12-24T19:53:21Z")
If those are the only parts of the movie you remember, why did you think it would be the answer? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/956600/6 "2021-12-24T19:57:03Z")
Because I could imagine Macaulay Culkin as a precocious little rich kid saying something like that to a couple of household servants. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/956600/7 "2021-12-24T19:58:57Z")
Helpful. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2021, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/956600/8 "2021-12-25T02:41:55Z")
I don’t think this is right, but Spanglish? I remember the scene you described but not the movie. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2021, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/956600/9 "2021-12-25T02:46:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2021, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/956600/10 "2021-12-25T02:57:38Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2021, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/956600/11 "2021-12-25T03:00:57Z")
Was it maybe part of a Robert Altman-esque collection of related stories, as opposed to a single story movie? ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2021, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/956600/12 "2021-12-25T03:07:29Z")
It wasn’t LA STORY. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2021, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/956600/13 "2021-12-25T03:16:34Z")
Definitely not LA Story. I’ve seen that movie enough times to be certain the described scene is not included. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2021, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/956600/14 "2021-12-25T03:37:26Z")
Oh - _Treasure of the Sierra Madre_? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/956600/15 "2022-06-04T02:07:47Z")
If you’re still looking, it is My Tutor, from 1983, and the guy was Matt Lattanzi. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/956600/16 "2022-06-04T02:17:07Z")
Thanks! I never would have found that - a typical ‘80s teenage sex movie. But, that scene was very clever. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-movie/956600/17 "2022-06-04T02:20:15Z")
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.