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== Film ==
 
* ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'', when Boo and Sully are hiding from Randall. He punches them open one by one, and Sully flinches as every door opens. {{spoiler|Randall actually slams open the stall Sully is hiding in, but isn't looking at the time. Momentum closes the door before Randall sees them.}}
* ''[[Nine to Five]]'': Happens during an [[Imagine Spot]].
* In ''[[The Sting]]'', Johnny Hooker is trying to escape a hit man trying to kill him. He goes into a restroom to hide. The hit man enters and starts opening doors to find him. He gets to the last stall and realizes there's a woman inside. He figures Hooker went out the window and does the same. It turns out Hooker was inside the stall with the woman -- she was helping him.
* In ''[[The Warriors (Filmfilm)|The Warriors]]'', the Punks line up to kick all the stalls open at the same time. The Warriors open the doors first and a brawl ensues.
* ''[[Max Payne (Filmfilm)|Max Payne]]'': In the movie trailer, Max Payne does this using his ''gun''.
* The Amish kid in ''Witness'' successfully hides from the murderers this way.
* ''[[Cast a Deadly Spell (Film)|Cast a Deadly Spell]]''. As Mickey is trying to escape Tugwell in the train station, he goes into the bathroom and tries to hide in the last stall. Tugwell uses a magic spell that lights a fiery trail to him and blows him out of the stall.
* ''[[Edge of Darkness]]''. Craven is being followed, and to lose his tails he goes into a highway rest stop bathroom. A moment later the tails enter the bathroom and search the stalls, only to discover that Craven has escaped out a window and lost them.
* ''[[Zombieland (Film)|Zombieland]]''. Our hero has to relieve himself, and to be on the safe side, he searches each stall in the bathroom before doing so.
* ''[[True Lies]]''. Tasker hides from a gun-wielding terrorist inside a bathroom stall. The terrorist hoses down the stalls with his machine gun, and begins opening each stall. Before he gets to Tasker's hiding place, Tasker bursts out of his stall and escapes.
* ''[[One Crazy Summer]]'': The leader of a biker gang opens each stall and finds the person he was looking for in the last one.
* ''[[High School Musical]]'' used this to show us how Gabriella was able to turn invisible. Seriously: Sharpay hears her singing in the loo, sees nobody, checks out the stalls, ''kicks'' the lone closed-yet-vacant stall open, then spies herself in the mirror and leaves. Gabriella then reveals that she was behind the entrance wall (beside the basins). In a ''[[Fridge Logic|place Sharpay looked]]''. True, we don't actually see Gabriella's hiding place (so she could very well have been under the basins), but the way it's played makes us wonder why she doesn't slip out while Sharpay's back was turned.
* In ''[[Air Force One]]'', while he's being pursued by the terrorists through the plane's passenger levels, the President hides in the bathroom section. The terrorists then shoot up each stall, and check each door, only to find they're empty. Turns out the President [[Air Vent Passageway|used a different method to evade them]].
* In [[Pink Floyd the Wall]], Pink is found hiding in a bathroom stall after the [[A Nazi Byby Any Other Name|Hammers]] overrun England.
* In Problem Child 2, Trixie hides in the bathroom and stands on the toilet seats so her feet don't show. Junior looks underneath each stall, and doesn't see her feet, but he isn't fooled.
 
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