# movie scenes that take place inside a confessional **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 20, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241 "2009-11-20T02:20:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/1 "2009-11-20T02:20:29Z")
I’m trying to find a short clip of a scene that will demonstrate to students how a confessional works. Preferably something humorous. I thought about the confessional scene in Gossip Girl where Blair confesses she lost her virginity to Chuck but somehome I doubt that would be appropriate for the class. The only other scene I can think of is the scene in Exorcist 3. :dubious: Help me out here, Dopers! ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/2 "2009-11-20T02:48:29Z")
If you’re going for humour, there’s a Seinfeld episode (_The Yadda Yadda_) with a scene where Jerry is in a confessional. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/3 "2009-11-20T02:59:15Z")
Boondock Saints. ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/4 "2009-11-20T03:04:30Z")
Gran Torino qualifies. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/5 "2009-11-20T03:11:47Z")
Desperado? ---
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/6 "2009-11-20T03:16:20Z")
Heaven Help Us? _Dominus vobiscum shithead!_ ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/7 "2009-11-20T03:26:12Z")
_Beavis and Butthead Do America._ Beavis sits where the priest is supposed to sit. Somebody comes in to confess, and Beavis tells him to hit himself and the like. On the way back to the bus, Beavis and Butthead get struck by lightning. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/8 "2009-11-20T03:27:23Z")
Alfred Hitchcock’s **I Confess** , IIRC. The movie is all about the issues raised by confession. It’s not funny, though. There was a very funny scene in some British sitcom about a young priest and his attempts to modernize the parish (no, it wasn’t **Father Ted** – I saw the show about 20 years ago), where the older priest was convinced to use a mic for his sermons, then forgot to turn it off in the confessional, broadcasting it to the congregation. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/9 "2009-11-20T03:54:21Z")
**Angela’s Ashes** : “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It’s been one minute since my last confession.” “Are you the boy who was just here?” Actually, this movie has several confession scenes. Seconding **Heaven Help Us** , which also has several: (paraphrased from memory) “You can’t tell him you jerked off 168 times! Tell him you jerked off THREE times, and add another lie to the list.” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/10 "2009-11-20T06:24:42Z")
_Daredevil_ had a scene, too. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/11 "2009-11-20T07:07:37Z")
**The Commitments** has a funny confessional scene. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/12 "2009-11-20T07:36:25Z")
Whatever you do, don’t use the scene from _In Bruges_. ---
**Author:** ![Foldup\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Foldup\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foldup_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/13 "2009-11-20T07:43:22Z")
There’s also the bit from the “dramatic” trailer at the opening of _Tropic Thunder_… but the homosexual religious overtones might not be exactly appropriate for the classroom. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/14 "2009-11-20T07:51:04Z")
“Father…I love my wife like no other, but part of me suspects that she might be having an affair. And, maybe I’m just being paranoid, but I feel like the _entire town_ is laughing at me behind my back!” From the other side of the wall: “Charlie? That you?” -Me, Myself and Irene ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/15 "2009-11-20T08:44:40Z")
_ **I Love you to Death** _ has a very funny confessional scene, a tiny bit of which you can see [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaI3G7tB_JE). ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/16 "2009-11-20T13:50:24Z")
In _Moonstruck_: Loretta Castorini: Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been two months since my last confession. Priest: What sins have you to confess? Loretta Castorini: Twice I took the name of the Lord in vain, once I slept with the brother of my fiancee, and once I bounced a check at the liquor store, but that was really an accident. Priest: Then it’s not a sin. But . . . what was that second thing you said, Loretta? ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/17 "2009-11-20T13:56:51Z")
EuroTrip Scotty, Mika, confessional… ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/18 "2009-11-20T14:13:45Z")
You can use the one from **Sin City** if you want to capture their attention. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/19 "2009-11-20T14:31:34Z")
The best confessional scene of all time was in 30 Rock last season: > [@](#): > > ``` > Priest: Don't you have faith? > Jack: I have faith... in things I can see and buy and deregulate. Capitalism is my religion. Now, you want to have an intellectual argument? Fine, but I should warn you, I went to Princeton. > Priest: I went to Harvard Divinity School. > Jack: [scoffs] You crimson guys never miss a chance, do you? You want a confession? Let's get this done so I can go eat. I'm divorced. I take the Lord's name in vain often and with great relish. I hit my mother with a car, possibly by accident. [jump cut] ...I almost let him choke to death right there on the football field. I looked the other way when my wig-based parent company turned a bunch of children orange. I once claimed "I am God" during a deposition. [jump cut] and... I may have sodomized our former Vice President while under the influence of some weapons-grade narcotics. [sighs] It feels good to say that out loud actually. That one was weighing on me. > > ``` But if that doesn’t work, the aforementioned Moonstruck scene is great. And (having never been inside one), I figure it’s probably about the most accurate as well. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/20 "2009-11-20T15:42:30Z")
I think **The Legend of Zorro** has what you’re looking for. Antonio Banderas’s Zorro needs a quick hiding place, finds the confessional booth and Catherine Zeta Jones’s character –naturally- shows up for her confession. Certainly suitable for most audiences. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241.md?page=2)