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''Film/JoyRide3Roadkill'': Barry, the ConspiracyTheorist trucker who vainly warns the protagonists about the dangers of traveling [[SerialKiller Rusty]]'s favorite section of highway, milks his one scene for all it is worth.

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* ''Film/JoyRide3Roadkill'': Barry, the ConspiracyTheorist trucker who vainly warns the protagonists about the dangers of traveling [[SerialKiller Rusty]]'s favorite section of highway, milks his one scene for all it is worth.worth.
* ''Film/TheParallaxView'':
** Creator/KennethMars as the ex-FBI agent is pretty memorable for his hilarious snarkiness and VitriolicBestBuds dynamic with Frady.
** Creator/AnthonyZerbe shows up uncredited to play the eccentric professor Frady goes to to help him fake his Parallax questionnaire. It's pretty hard to forget a guy who plays video games with a chimpanzee and starts rattling off about how a chimpanzee bit off his colleague's ear.
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* ''Film/TheVIPs'':
** A 29-year-old Creator/MaggieSmith sheds tears in a scene opposite Creator/RichardBurton where she pleads with him to save her boss and his company from bankruptcy. Richard Burton later said she stole the movie.
** Then there was Creator/MargaretRutherford who wasn't particularly integral to the pathos of the film and won an Oscar for her physical comedy, but she dazzled in multiple small bits.
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* Many people (both movie and ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' fans alike) agree that ''Film/TomAndJerry2021'' is far from perfect. However, there are a few things that audiences found entertaining: ''any'' scene where Tom and Jerry get up to their typical cartoon hi-jinks (which, sadly, take up roughly fifteen minutes of the film's total run time) and the [[BigBallOfViolence animal tornado]] at the movie's climax.
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** Equally impressive is Derbhle Crotty as the mother of said student when she confronts Sheba.
--> '''Mrs. Connolly''' ''(as she repeatedly slaps Sheba)'': "Slut! Whore! Whore! How could you? How could you? He's a ''child!'' A sweet boy! You perverted '''''bitch'''''! Bitch!"

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* ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' has every single RemakeCameo - albeit Creator/BillMurray is a Two Scene Wonder. Also noteworthy is a skeletal ringmaster ghost who appears in the final fight, and Music/OzzyOsbourne giving a one-liner ("Sharon! I'm having flashbacks!" in the theatrical cut, and "Wankers! Music/BlackSabbath did that shit in '74." in the extended one).

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* ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'':
** ''Film/GhostbustersII'': As New York City is haunted during the Ghostbusters' involuntary committment, we see that among the ghosts is ''the wreck of the Titanic'' arriving at New York harbor, and we see the dock supervisor played by [[Creator/CheechAndChong Cheech Marin]], who stares in shock at all the ghosts exiting the ship for several seconds before saying "Well, better late than never...".
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''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' has every single RemakeCameo - albeit Creator/BillMurray is a Two Scene Wonder. Also noteworthy is a skeletal ringmaster ghost who appears in the final fight, and Music/OzzyOsbourne giving a one-liner ("Sharon! I'm having flashbacks!" in the theatrical cut, and "Wankers! Music/BlackSabbath did that shit in '74." in the extended one).
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** He drops into a scene partway through Creator/GarySherman's ''Film/DeathLine'' as an MI5 agent who trades insults with Creator/DonaldPleasence's grumpy police inspector.

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** He drops into a scene partway through Creator/GarySherman's ''Film/DeathLine'' as an MI5 [=MI5=] agent who trades insults with Creator/DonaldPleasence's grumpy police inspector.
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* Creator/WilliamHurt, in ''Film/AHistoryOfViolence'', has a single scene as Joey Cusack's brother. It's about five to ten minutes long. He was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward.

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* Creator/WilliamHurt, in ''Film/AHistoryOfViolence'', has a single scene as Joey Cusack's brother. It's about five to ten minutes long. He was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward.MediaNotes/AcademyAward.



** And then there's Beatrice Straight, who won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Supporting Actress for what is the shortest amount of time an Oscar-winning role had been onscreen. (five minutes and forty seconds, mostly in an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzj1ViCA6RI equally impressive speech]]) Beatty was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

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** And then there's Beatrice Straight, who won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward MediaNotes/AcademyAward for Best Supporting Actress for what is the shortest amount of time an Oscar-winning role had been onscreen. (five minutes and forty seconds, mostly in an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzj1ViCA6RI equally impressive speech]]) Beatty was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor.



* In ''Film/MurderOnTheOrientExpress1974'', Creator/IngridBergman won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for her role as the half-crazy Swedish missionary Greta Ohlsson, who is practically only seen onscreen during a seven minute near-monologue. Bergman herself, however, [[https://www.youtube.com/user/oscars?blend=1&ob=4#p/search/2/ky5sW4no_cg said]] that Valentina Cortese should've won. This trope applies to nearly everyone in the film; with the exception of Hercule Poirot, Dr. Constantine, and the director of the Wagon-Lits company, who interrogate each passenger, no one has more than three scenes. Just the same, every actor gives a full movie's performance in their seven minutes on-screen.
* Dame Creator/JudiDench as Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethI needed only six minutes of screen time to run away with ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'' and an UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestActressInASupportingRole.

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* In ''Film/MurderOnTheOrientExpress1974'', Creator/IngridBergman won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward MediaNotes/AcademyAward for her role as the half-crazy Swedish missionary Greta Ohlsson, who is practically only seen onscreen during a seven minute near-monologue. Bergman herself, however, [[https://www.youtube.com/user/oscars?blend=1&ob=4#p/search/2/ky5sW4no_cg said]] that Valentina Cortese should've won. This trope applies to nearly everyone in the film; with the exception of Hercule Poirot, Dr. Constantine, and the director of the Wagon-Lits company, who interrogate each passenger, no one has more than three scenes. Just the same, every actor gives a full movie's performance in their seven minutes on-screen.
* Dame Creator/JudiDench as Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethI needed only six minutes of screen time to run away with ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'' and an UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestActressInASupportingRole.MediaNotes/AcademyAwardForBestActressInASupportingRole.



* Creator/ChrisSarandon's outstanding turn as Creator/AlPacino's pre-op transgender girlfriend in the classic ''Film/DogDayAfternoon'' garnered him an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination and made his career, despite his appearing in only two scenes.

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* Creator/ChrisSarandon's outstanding turn as Creator/AlPacino's pre-op transgender girlfriend in the classic ''Film/DogDayAfternoon'' garnered him an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward MediaNotes/AcademyAward nomination and made his career, despite his appearing in only two scenes.
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* Agitator Puntarpää had only one scene in ''Film/RedLine'', but thanks to Jussi Jurkka hamming it up, he sure made an impression.

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* Agitator Puntarpää had only one scene in ''Film/RedLine'', ''Film/{{Red Line|1959}}'', but thanks to Jussi Jurkka hamming it up, he sure made an impression.
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* ''Film/UpTheFront'': Creator/ZsaZsaGabor as UsefulNotes/MataHari. With less than ten minutes of screentime, Gabor gives a performance that is camp, alluring, and hilarious, even BreakingTheFourthWall just as well as Creator/FrankieHowerd does.
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* Dame Creator/JudiDench as Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethI needed only nine minutes of screen time to run away with ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'' and an UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestActressInASupportingRole.

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* Dame Creator/JudiDench as Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethI needed only nine six minutes of screen time to run away with ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'' and an UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestActressInASupportingRole.

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