Help me identify a Jeff Bridges movie

This is driving me crazy. I’m trying to remember a film that contains a line we use in my family to describe someone who isn’t all the way awake: “He/she’s still circling the airport.” Here’s what I know:

  • It was a Jeff Bridges film.
    *Bridges says the line about his dog, who was sedated after a vet procedure, to (I THINK) a little girl who is his neighbor. the little girl sneaks over to his apartment a lot.

Internet hive mind, can you help?

Might be The Fabulous Baker Boys.

Agree, Pretty sure it is the Fabulous Baker Boys

YES! that’s it all right. The embarrassing thing is that I LOVE that movie (although I haven’t watched it in a long time), but in my mind the dog + lonely neighbor kid subplots didn’t match the music stuff and I just thought it had to be a different movie.

It’s funny the things you KNOW that just aren’t so.

What a post to return with after 2 years

Yeah, well, ya know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.