# Need help ID'ing a movie

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**Created:** [February 26, 2012, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-iding-a-movie/614032 "2012-02-26T04:13:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Tompkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/258eb7/32.png) [@Jeff\_Tompkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Tompkins)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-iding-a-movie/614032/1 "2012-02-26T04:13:41Z")

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This is sort of driving me crazy. Help!

There’s a scene (it might be the opening one) in the movie in which a man approaches a woman at a cafe or lunch counter type place in a major city.

He’s hitting on her, and it appears to everyone in the restaurant that they are strangers, but they’re a couple. They were role-playing.

Pretty sure this is a movie that came out within the last 15 years or so.

I thought it might have been “Unfaithful” but I found a transcript of the movie dialogue and that’s not it. I’ve tried Googling that scenario with various keywords…no luck.

Thanks for any help.

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**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-iding-a-movie/614032/2 "2012-02-26T04:20:54Z")

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There was that Andy garcia /Meg Ryan movie, “When a man loves a woman” from 94. It happened in an airport bar, if I’m not mistaken.

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Tompkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/258eb7/32.png) [@Jeff\_Tompkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Tompkins)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-iding-a-movie/614032/3 "2012-02-26T04:23:31Z")

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> [@Sr\_Siete](#):
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> There was that Andy garcia /Meg Ryan movie, “When a man loves a woman” from 94. It happened in an airport bar, if I’m not mistaken.

That’s it! I just Googled it and found:

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> “When a Man Loves a Woman” opens with a seductively funny scene: Eating lunch at a San Francisco yuppie saloon, Meg Ryan is trying to read while deflecting inept passes from suits at the bar. Suddenly, as if from a romance novel, darkly handsome Andy Garcia glides in in a pilot’s uniform, and with a few smooth words, piques her interest. In minutes, Ryan is on his lap on the barstool, to the slack-jawed disbelief of the last joker who tried to start up a conversation with her.
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> [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/whenamanlovesawomanrbrown\_a0ae15.htm](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/whenamanlovesawomanrbrown_a0ae15.htm)

Thank you!

Here’s the scene if anyone wants to see it.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VSyKVgi0\_8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VSyKVgi0_8)

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-iding-a-movie/614032/4 "2012-02-26T04:58:10Z")

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Interesting. That’s the opening scene of Four Christmases too.