Movies about someone displaying compassion, humor, innovation in the face of adversity

Valley of the Dolls, obviously.

Minnie from The Help.

All that comes to mind are "Casablanca", and "Harold and Maude".

I really don't think the latter would go over big with a youth group, not an old woman urging a death-obsessed young man to live and love live, and seducing him after he's glimpsed her concentration camp tattoo.

Muriel Heslop!

Maybe your friend needs to do her own thinking.

Places that ask these types of things are usually bad places to work for. They're not able to keep staff and they are always hiring

Norma Rae

[quote] Got a friend interviewing for a job and she's been asked to choose a movie (or play) that represents her. The actual question is "If you were a scene from a movie or play, what would you be? Tell us why."

HR departments are now asking essay questions before the person has had an interview? And they’re asking about scenes from movies & plays?

Forgive my disbelieve.....but, really, OP? You’re scraping bottom now.

Michael Meyers from Halloween 3 and 6.

A) Nothing obvious, especially relating to kids and arts and B) The more obscure the better and most likely plays over movies as they will be less known.

The scene in WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? when Blanche is dying, and Jane finds out that she (Jane) didn't put her sister in that wheelchair:

the interviewee can just quote the youtube notes: Social attitudes change and are represented in how disabled people are portrayed, but strong stereotypes rooted in past attitudes and cultures persist and are often recycled, reinforcing negative treatment of disabled people.

R11 again, she can tie it into children and the arts, see the beginning of Baby Jane.

Nanny -The Omen.

You have to know the film to know that this scene does it all:

"drink your juice, Shelby!"

Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious." Have your friend say that, thanks to the gift of willpower, she went down from two buckets of fried chicken on the way to school to just one. Now she's on the fast track to slimtown!

"As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're are not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when its all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill, as God is my witness I'll never be hungry again."

This...

Most of Tom Hanks' movies, obviously.

I would be Spongebob. The happiest most self actualized creature on earth.

Make one up.

Cold Comfort Farm where she explains her philosophy.

Little Miss Sunshine? The pageant part, obviously, not the dead grandpa and the gay porn magazines part (although that was a brilliant display of resourcefulness in the face of a cop).