# Help me identify a Jeff Bridges movie

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [July 20, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-jeff-bridges-movie/1021111 "2025-07-20T14:24:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-jeff-bridges-movie/1021111/1 "2025-07-20T14:24:18Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-jeff-bridges-movie/1021111/2 "2025-07-20T14:27:52Z")

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Might be The Fabulous Baker Boys.

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**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-jeff-bridges-movie/1021111/3 "2025-07-20T14:29:22Z")

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Agree, Pretty sure it is the Fabulous Baker Boys

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**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-jeff-bridges-movie/1021111/4 "2025-07-20T14:37:32Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-jeff-bridges-movie/1021111/5 "2025-07-21T08:00:44Z")

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What a post to return with after 2 years

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**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-jeff-bridges-movie/1021111/6 "2025-07-21T13:00:33Z")

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