# What movie is this? (Very little info to go on, may be impossible) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 29, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546 "2016-01-29T03:02:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/1 "2016-01-29T03:02:21Z")
I am almost too embarrassed to post this because I worry that people will think I’m an idiot for even wondering if this movie can be identified on the basis of so little information, let alone for actually putting it out there for people to try. Well, _almost_ too embarrassed . . . I am trying to remember a movie I saw within the last five years. I think. Basically, all I can remember are snippets from the last scene (or very, very close to it). The scene involves the main character of the film, an artist of some sort (?painter ?writer ?poet ?musician) who, having been knocked down a rung or two in life, goes to an English Pub (he is American, by the way). He had gone there ‘to get away from it all’. He’s basically broke, or, at least for the first time in many, many years will actually have to worry about money. At the pub, he soon meets a young woman, clearly younger than he, who appears drunk. He drinks with her. Especially in comparison to his lovers from earlier in the movie, she is not terribly attractive and of a ‘lower’ class. They either sing together or write poetry together, I can’t recall. Despite what he might have guessed at first laying eyes on her, he enjoys her company and is having a good time. Then, within hours of meeting, they sleep together in her room at the pub (I guess she’s lodging there, or maybe she works there). Even before they go under the covers, it’s clear that they both appear very happy to have met. The End. (I think). Told you there wasn’t much to go on. It’s really bothering me - I recall the scene pretty clearly but not one other bit of the movie. When I try to remember more, I start to feel as if it might have even been a dream I had. But it wasn’t. It’s a real, honest-to-goodness flick. _That_, I’m sure of. Any ideas? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/2 "2016-01-29T03:11:54Z")
_Citizen Kane_? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/3 "2016-01-29T03:16:39Z")
Nope. That’s one that even I would remember. Thanks, though. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/4 "2016-01-29T03:35:32Z")
It sounds somewhat like [Once](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907657/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). ---
**Author:** ![desertmonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@desertmonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/desertmonk)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/5 "2016-01-29T03:40:32Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > It sounds somewhat like [Once](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907657/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). I don’t recall them sleeping together in Once. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/6 "2016-01-29T03:43:05Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > It sounds somewhat like [Once](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907657/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). Alas, no. Thank you for trying. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/7 "2016-01-29T03:46:45Z")
Do you remember anything about the actors? Well-known? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/8 "2016-01-29T03:55:29Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Do you remember anything about the actors? Well-known? The girl he meets at the end is definitely not a name star. OTOH, the male protagonist is, or at least I seem to remember he was. I also seem to remember that he (the main guy) had to be urged on by a friend to even speak to the girl. His initial inclination had been to ignore her (and everything/everyone else) and just sit there and wallow. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/9 "2016-01-29T05:11:04Z")
**Inside Llewyn Davis**? ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/10 "2016-01-29T05:14:15Z")
Certain aspects remind me of the novel **Of Human Bondage** , though it doesn’t end quite that way, and afaik the most recent movie was 1964. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/11 "2016-01-29T06:57:54Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/12 "2016-01-29T07:30:46Z")
Are the two characters white? ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/13 "2016-01-29T18:17:50Z")
_Lust For Life_? Van Gogh meets a laundress/prostitute at a bar and they start a relationship so that she can stop turning tricks. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/14 "2016-01-29T18:36:58Z")
Appreciate all your efforts. But, no dice. Both characters are white. The young woman was actually a bit on the heavier side IIRC - definitely was not supposed to appear as glamorous which, as I said, is in contrast to his earlier flames. Thanks! ---
**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:** [January 29, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/15 "2016-01-29T20:47:49Z")
[Barfly?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092618/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/16 "2016-01-29T23:27:23Z")
> [@Peanuthead](#): > > [Barfly?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092618/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) Great suggestion, but that’s not it (the movie I’m thinking of is definitely more recent than 1987 and, for sure, the bar scene at the end takes place in an English pub). Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/17 "2016-01-30T00:01:40Z")
[The Master](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1560747/) has a similar scene at the end, where the protagonist meets a woman in a pub and sleeps with her in (almost) the final scene. Maybe? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/18 "2016-01-30T00:08:16Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > [The Master](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1560747/) has a similar scene at the end, where the protagonist meets a woman in a pub and sleeps with her in (almost) the final scene. Maybe? BINGO!! Thank you! I’m sure that’s it. And now, I am even more embarrassed - how many details did I get wrong? Was it in an English pub as I was so sure it was? Don’t think so. What ‘better class’ and ‘better looking’ women did he have earlier? None, really (although he did have a bunch of flings earlier). And yet, despite my totally screwed up description, you still got it for me. Thank you, thank you! ETA: And what an “artist” he was! Not. ETA: Just checked. At least I was right about the English pub ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/19 "2016-01-30T01:33:33Z")
Memory is a funny thing. You had enough of the details right to make the connection for me. Great movie, too. ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546/20 "2016-01-30T01:36:00Z")
Dang. That took just 21 hours, 6 minutes. I love the SDMB! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this-very-little-info-to-go-on-may-be-impossible/744546.md?page=2)