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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
Twiddler
MOD
(On A Trope Odyssey)

Movie, maybe from the 2000s.
Some teen boy (multiple boys?) is a witness to an incident involving the main character (a woman). The police take him in for questioning and ask him to describe what she looked like. He keeps talking about how hot she was and they have to prompt him to stay on track. The police sketch artist draws a picture based on the boy's description... and it turns out to look like some celebrity. (i.e. not the main character.) One police guy is angry at how it turned out. Another (the artist?) explains that people have a tendency to subconsciously recall celebrity faces/faces they see a lot in the media, or something like that.