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Sleepless in Seattle (1993) - 12 corrections

Directed by Nora Ephron, starring Bill Pullman, Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks (add more)

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama

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When Meg Ryan arrives in Seattle and is getting off the plane, she comes through the gate and looks right at Tom Hanks standing only a few feet in front of her. He notices her avidly, and we can see that she sees him too while scanning the crowd. She looks straight at him, and couldn't have possibly missed seeing him. But she doesn't seem to recognize him. This doesn't make sense, because we know she has already received photos of Tom Hanks from the Private Investigator by this time. (She mentions this to Rosie on the phone as well.) Also, later as she follows Tom Hanks around with his son, she clearly sees him then as well. And she obviously at this point knows exactly who he is and what he looks like because of the photos. So why didn't she notice him standing so close to her in the airport, and recognize him then? And why wouldn't she later remember him as that guy she saw at the airport? [Because hundreds of people are at the airport, it's confusing as people are coming and going, and a photo doesn't always give you an accurate idea of what the person appears like in life. ]
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When Annie is telling her mother about how she and Walter met, she says they each got each other's sandwiches: Walter got her sandwich on whole wheat bread, which he was allergic to, while she got his on white bread. However, anyone allergic to whole wheat bread would be equally allergic to white bread; wheat flour is the main ingredient in white bread. [Dead wrong. A friend of mine is allergic to whole wheat but not wheat. Whole wheat flour contains wheat bran, white wheat-flour does not.]
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In the scene where Tom Hanks is getting his son from the top of the Empire State Building it is not raining. At the same time, when Meg Ryan is running towards the building, there is rain on the cab and the streets are wet. [It had probably just stopped raining, since there is rain all over for quite a while after it rains.]
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When Annie and Walter meet in New York, they are standing outside a store window with a rotating globe. The globe rotates the wrong way. The Earth rotates in a counterclockwise direction when viewed from above the north pole, but the globe in the store rotates in a clockwise direction. [This cannot be considered a film mistake. It is merely an issue for the manufacturers of the globe.]
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In the movie, Meg Ryan runs into the Empire State Building and begs to be allowed to go to the observation deck. In reality, Meg would've had to wait in the ticket line for an observation deck ticket and then in line to board an elevator to the top of the building. No one is allowed on the observation deck without a ticket. [She wasn't in line because there was no one there, since it was closing. The security guard made the decision to let her go up, because he felt bad for her.]
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There is a scene near the beginning when Tom Hanks is at work, designing a house with a few other archictects. His boss, Claire, talks to Tom and the other archictects for a while. When she is leaving, she says 'La décorateur calls'; meaning in French 'The decorator is calling'. However, 'la' is feminine, and 'le' is masculine (both forms of 'the'). 'Décorateur' is the masculine form of 'decorator, and 'décoratrice' is the feminine form. So, 'La décorateur' should have been 'Le décorateur' or 'La décoratrice'. [The idea is that she doesn't really speak French. She's trying to be all suave and sophisticated, so she pretends to speak French. It was not meant to be accurate, as it was a mix of French and English.]
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When the ball comes down in New York, Jonah is sleeping to make it look like it is midnight in Seattle. Fireworks are going off in Seattle at what would actually be 9pm there. [I live in California and at least one station plays the ball dropping in New York at Midnight our time, like it's just dropping, every year. It could very well be midnight in Seattle and a station is just playing the ball dropping.]
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When Annie has the private investigator follow Sam and Victoria to the restaurant, the photos taken show Sam's face and Victoria's back. The photos were sent to Annie back in Baltimore, so she saw Sam's face in the pictures- when she arrives in Seattle she is looking around and Sam watches her enter the airport. How can she say she recognized Victoria (really Sam's friend) by the back of her head, yet didn't recognize Sam at the airport when she arrived? [She recognized the woman when she is with Sam at his house and on the water. She didn't see the woman at the airport or Sam.]
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Sam and Jonah take a boat ride to Alki Beach in West Seattle. Annie follows them the entire way in her rental car. To get from their Lake Union houseboat to Alki Beach involves going over the lake, through the Ballard locks and across Elliot Bay (Puget Sound). There's no road that follows this route, and the boat trip would probably take close to an hour with the wait at the locks. [There certainly is a road that follows this route - I just drove it lastweek. It took it took less than half an hour with some mid-day traffic.]
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When Sam arrives at NY looking for his son, it is daytime. He immediately takes a cab and drives to the Empire State building. Yet, when he gets there is nightime and very dark. [It actually takes Tom some time to get to the Empire State Building. When he crosses the bridge it's sunset. Then they go to Meg and Bill having dinner...and then Tom shows up at the Empire State Building. Plus, this takes place during winter and it get dark around 5:30 pm.]
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In the scene where Meg Ryan is watching Tom Hanks and his son play on the beach, she is hiding behind a building with a sign on the door that reads, "Closed for Labor Day." The movie takes place between Christmas Eve and Valentine's Day - nowhere near Labor Day. [The sign actually says, "Closed from Labor Day to Memorial Day." ]
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When Tom Hanks goes to his son's friend's house to question her about where Jonah went, her parents have no idea about what is going on. However when she says he flew to New York, her dad says how the flight left at 7:30. How did he know? [The little girl tells Jonah that her parents are travel agents and she makes his reservation on their computer.]
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