Thoroughly Mistaken Identity: Difference between revisions

** And in a heartbreaking scene in the end, when said character decides to play along for once and pretends that he is her son, {{spoiler|(because he set the house on fire, and is trying to save her)}} it causes her to break through her denial and realize the horrible truth...

* In the final scene of ''Smoke,'' Augie poses as a blind old lady's grandson rather than let her spend Christmas alone. Subverted in that she probably realizes that he isn't actually her grandson but goes along with the act rather than admit that she has been abandoned.

* In the [[Madonna/Sean Penn|Sean Penn]] movie ''Shanghai Surprise'', when Penn's character, Glendon, goes to a fancy restaurant he's mistaken by all and sundry for another character named Phil -- who is never mentioned before or after this scene, nor is Glendon's resemblance. Nonetheless, the fact that Glendon looks like and is mistaken for Phil is a vital plot point without which the movie makes no sense (it's the reason Glendon was picked for the mission, it's how he gets an entree with a lady named China Doll, etc.).