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- Mashed potatoes in cinema -

Probably the most famous mashed potato scene in cinema takes place in the 1977 American science fiction movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Early in the film, the central character Roy Neary (played by Richard Dreyfuss) comes into contact with space aliens and experiences a  close encounter of the second kind. As a result, he becomes obsessed with UFOs - to the great dismay of his family. He begins making endless models of a distinctive mountain or hill - a place he has never actually seen, and with which he is unfamiliar. One night as he sits with his family at the dinner table, Neary suddenly starts heaping large spoonful of mashed potatoes onto his dinner plate. As his family watches him, he continues to pile up spoonful after spoonful, and then attempts to sculpt a shape with them. His wife and children begin to wonder if he really has lost all sense of reason and sanity, and his older son stares at him with a look of pain and sadness covering his face. Roy, with an uncomfortable look of shame, tries to acknowledge his discomfort. He says, "Well, I guess you've noticed something a little strange with Dad. It's OK. I'm still Dad. I can't describe it - what I'm feeling."