# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/21 "2009-11-20T17:52:30Z")
What kind of class is this for? ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/22 "2009-11-20T17:59:52Z")
There is a scene in Keeping the Faith with Edward Norton (the priest) and a kid while the kid is confessing for kind of lusting over a woman. Movie is like PG-13. ---
**Author:** ![Elysium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Elysium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysium)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/23 "2009-11-20T18:32:52Z")
Also, Alec Baldwin’s confession from 30 Rock Season 3 “St. Valentine’s Day” in which the priest runs away screaming. It doesn’t appear to be online on YouTube, but the episode is streaming on Netflix now. It’s a standard Catholic confession at the start, with Jack’s portion being: “You wanna a confession? Let’s get this done so I can go eat. I am divorced, I take the lord’s name in vein, often, and with great relish. I hit my mother with a car, possibly by accident. 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. Annnnd, I may have sodomized our former Vice President while under the influence of some weapons grade narcotics.” Humorous and classroom-safe! ETA: found an audio clip! Maybe someone with better Google-fu can track down a video: [Jack’s Confession](http://www.entertonement.com/clips/knyjnpkmnp--Let%27s-get-this-done-so-I-can-go-eat30-Rock-30-Rock-St-Valentine%27s-Day-) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/24 "2009-11-20T19:07:59Z")
There’s a confessional scene in _Jeffrey_, IIRC, in which a gay priest played by Nathan Lane makes a pass at the protagonist. Isn’t there a confessional scene in _Sister Act_, too? There’s a confessional scene in _Seinfeld_ where Jerry admits he’s mad at his dentist for claiming to be Jewish. But he’s no antidentite! President Bartlet says his confession to a priest in the death-penalty episode of _The West Wing_, but it’s in the Oval Office, not in a church. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/25 "2009-11-20T19:27:43Z")
There’s an amusing albeit violent confessional moment during _The Ringer_. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/26 "2009-11-20T19:50:49Z")
My memory is failing me but didn’t Leslie Nielsen play a role as a priest somewhere doing a confessional scene? ---
**Author:** ![runcible\_spoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/27 "2009-11-20T20:12:19Z")
> [@minlokwat](#): > > 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. That was in _ **The Mask of Zorro** _, actually ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/28 "2009-11-20T21:43:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > There’s a confessional scene in _Seinfeld_ where Jerry admits he’s mad at his dentist for claiming to be Jewish. But he’s no antidentite! Those aren’t buoys! ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/29 "2009-11-20T21:44:59Z")
> [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](#): > > Gran Torino qualifies. I came in here to mention this one soley, but figured someone had to have beaten me to the punch..so I second or third this one. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/30 "2009-11-20T21:51:39Z")
A movie that I haven’t seen in a long time: _[The End](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077504/)_, with Burt Reynolds as a dying guy who tries to kill himself before he actually dies. He goes to confession, and the priest on the other side of the curtain is a gum-popping Robby Benson. When Burt starts confessing all the bad things that he’s done (adultery, IIRC), the priest says, “WOW!” ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/31 "2009-11-21T00:05:11Z")
I’m guessing not what you want, but Van Helsing has a scene in a confessional. I will think about it some more. ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/32 "2009-11-21T03:09:52Z")
Boondock Saints has a pretty good scene inside a confessional of a Catholic church. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/33 "2009-11-21T03:28:49Z")
James Woods in the movie Salvador goes to confession after something like 30 years of absence and makes some pretty hefty confessions. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/34 "2009-11-21T06:40:58Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > _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. Damn you, I was coming in here to report that! If you’ll recall, they thought the confessionals were the bathrooms. Man: I’m sorry. How many Hail Marys? Beavis: A thousand. And I want you to hit yourself, right now. Man: Um, now? Beavis: Yeah. Do it. _sounds of many beating himself and crying_ Beavis: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Harder. But you forgot how Butthead asks the one guy who confessed to having an affair to tell him all the details: Man: “Forgive me Father, I’ve sinned. I, uh, I-I slept with a woman, and uh…” Butt-head: “Really? Was she naked?” Man: “Well, yes, Father. Please forgive me.” Butt-head: “Cool! Could you, like, see her boobs?” ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/35 "2009-11-21T09:19:26Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > A movie that I haven’t seen in a long time: _[The End](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077504/)_, with Burt Reynolds as a dying guy who tries to kill himself before he actually dies. He goes to confession, and the priest on the other side of the curtain is a gum-popping Robby Benson. When Burt starts confessing all the bad things that he’s done (adultery, IIRC), the priest says, “WOW!” I came here to post this one. It’s pretty funny. I like the part where Burt says that he’s uncomfortable calling a guy 1/2 his age “Father” so the guy says for Burt to call him Dave. Burt says, “Bless me, Dave, for I have sinned…” Pretty good stuff. Oh, another one, I can’t remember the movie, has Charles Durning as some kind of big time gangster. His confession: “I haven’t been as good to my wife as I should have.” The priest says:“Is there any more?” Durning:“No, that’s about it.” hh ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/36 "2009-11-21T11:28:01Z")
> [@HazelNutCoffee](#): > > 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! I think there’s a really good one in Basketball Diaries if I’m not wrong… There should also be one in The Bourne Identity I think ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241/37 "2009-11-21T12:37:25Z")
Flashdance has a couple, in one of them it’s pretty clear that this is the only time she confides in someone… she starts off with the "bless me father … " then just breaks down. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-take-place-inside-a-confessional/518241.md?page=1)