In the glider scenes, the shots from the front show the sighting window in the canopy placed on the right side of the glider. But in the shots from the side, it is correctly placed on the left side. See more...
Pierce Brosnan performed his own stunts during the boat crash scene. See more...
Directed by John McTiernan, starring Denis Leary, Frankie Faison, Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo (add more)
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
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When the sprinklers in the museum go off, the water should (at least initially) be brown from the rust that accumulated in the pipes. [This is nothing more than an assumption. I've personally been in a couple of buildings where the fire system went off and in both cases the water looked clear.]
Thomas Crown puts the Monet back at the ceremony when he first meets Catherine. It isn't until even later that he mentions her not being allowed to play poker. Yet the "ghost" underneath the fake painting she steals from his house is "dogs playing at cards." This makes no sense - unless he had a second fake made, from the first one? [So where's the mistake? As a gag, he had the fake painted over the dogs picture, then later made another cards reference (not the only one in the film, either). Really not at all sure what the mistake is intended to be here.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
When Thomas Crown goes to the Police station to identify the criminals, he signs a statement. At the end of his signature he dots the page as if to dot an i in his name. There are no i's nor anything to dot in "Thomas Crown". There is, however, in "Pierce Bronson". [Or he could just have a dot at the end of his signature, lots of people do (my father did and he didn't have a need to).]
Corrected by shortdanzr
During the search of Crown's house, the helpers are told to search the basement first, and they immediately begin to search the first floor. [Actually the guy she tells this to, as they walk in, says "OK" and walks off. They then then cut to another guy searching, so the first one could be down in the basement at this point. Also, by the editing, it is done to show a mixture/montage of the search in all the various parts of Crown's house; they are not presenting it as a continious real time search.]
Corrected by Luna Negra
When Russo and Brosnan are talking at the meal when they first met it is said that he "went from Glasgow to Oxford on a boxing scholarship". Except that Oxford is an academic university and you must pass a very strict exam to attend, sporting prowess is not considered. Rene Russo seems quite knowledgeable and should know this, but neither act like it's a joke. [Firstly Oxford does not set an entrance exam as a matter of course. A few departments or colleges might set them but they are not routine for all subjects. Secondly if a college wants to pay the fees of a student in return for the student representing the college at a sport, then that is wholly up to them. Oxford colleges have a LOT of money and may wish to encourage the talents of those who otherwise might not be able to afford it. There may be no official 'Scholarship programme', but that's effectively what it is.]
In the scene where Thomas Crown places the briefcase which eventually stops the gate from coming all the way down, he places it right up against the wall of the entrance but later it can be seen that the briefcase has stopped the fence a few centimeters away from the wall. Who moved the briefcase? [Pierce Brosnan places the case about two inches away from the wall, exactly where it is when the wall comes down.]
In the opening scene, the outdoor setting is supposedly an unusually HOT autumn day. However, outdoor shots show several people with jackets, long coats, and almost no short-sleeve tops or shorts. [Unusually warm for autumn doesn't mean outright warm, and therefore, not necessarily warm enough for short-sleeved tops or shorts. And those could have been light jackets or coats meant for that sort of weather.]
Every time you see the outside of the art museum, the banners hanging down are different. [Museum banners frequently change to promote special events or exhibits being hosted there.]
In the final scene, Thomas Crown is sitting directly behind Catherine. Whether he got on the plane before or after her, how is it that she didn't notice him until he offers her the handkerchief? [She's very upset - in that sort of state, people often don't notice what's going on around them. She probably dimly registered that there was somebody sitting there, but didn't pick up on the fact that it was him.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
The art gallery is conveniently fitted with heat sensitive cameras. However, this would not be sensible in an art gallery, as infra-rad cameras cannot make distinctions such as precise facial features, necessary for identifying a thief. [They would however be capable of detecting the presence of a human being and setting off the alarm. Even most regular security video cameras give fairly poor images and are not much use for identifying people unless they look right at it for a few seconds.]
When Katherine arrives at the heliport and is rushing to the landing pad, the heliport employees tell her that she cannot go on the pad without an escort. She ignores that warning and goes out anyway, where Crown's representative is standing. The heliport employees apparently allowed him on the pad without an escort and made no effort to go get her after she ignored their warning. [They told her that because they probably didn't know who she was, and wouldn't let just anyone wander out to the landing pad. It is probable that perhaps someone then told him (the employee who told her to stop) to let her go, as Crown was expecting her, but probably didn't broadcast it to everyone there. The man who was out there, was obviously an employee of Crown's and had permission to be there.]
At the beach house, she goes out back with a towel around her neck as though she is going to get wet, but where? The beach house is on top of a mountain, far from the beach and there is no swimming pool. How did Crown and Catherine get to the beach? [There is a stairway down the hill to the beach.]
While dancing in a see-through dress, the frontal view shows she is wearing full-sized panties but when she twirls around, they're gone . [A thong would give the same look, coverage in front, and bare in the back.]
How did Catherine manage to show up at the original crime scene at the same time that the detective arrived? He came from across town; she came from Europe. [She also says that she keeps an apartment in town, she could have been in the city in the first place, and that's why the company sent her, because she was already in town.]
The theft occurs on one of the hottest days of the year, as pointed out by the guards. When Katherine arrives that night, she is wearing a coat. The investigation lasts a week or two, and throughout that time, they wear jackets and even top coats. Katherine's breath is frosty in the air a week or so after the theft. The weather apparently went from really hot to really cold in a week or so - does the New York climate do that? [Yes, the climate most definitely can do that. I live in Minnesota, which has a climate similar to New York, and in the space of 5 days, we have gone from getting a couple inches of snow to needing air conditioning because the temperature was 90 degrees.]
Just after the group in the museum realise that the Monet has been there all along, someone realises that another painting is gone and makes some comment to the effect of "Look at this." The camera pans to the second painting, where the protective wall is just beginning to open and reveal that another painting is missing. Thus, the person who pointed out that the second one was gone could not have known that it was indeed missing. Also, why was the wall opening - the ceiling was still dripping from the sprinklers and opening the walls no doubt requires pressing a button in the central control room. [There is enough time to notice another painting is gone. The character would have been having to look directly at the spot, but there was enough time. Also they radioed in to the central control room to open the walls so quickly.]
When Russo first approaches Brosnan on the dance floor she is wearing a black dress that is opaque, when they start dancing it is suddenly very transparent. [It's the same dress. It's just a matter of lighting. Front light only would reveal how transparent it is. Side light or back light would make it appear opaque.]
When Thomas Crown leaves the museum to go home after he's stolen the painting it is daylight, but when the taxi stops at his apartment, it is dark. It can't be that long a drive. [While we don't realise this till later, he must have gone and visited Anna to give her the copy to forge - either it was a "while you wait" service or else he left it with her - he seems to trust her].
The Trojan horse is transported into the vault area by a motorised pallet jack. The pallet jack operator is behind the load and his forward vision is totally obstructed by the load. The operator should have been in the front (as required by OSHA). Also they must turn the load around in the narrow hall because later the operator is in the front. [There's one at each end of the crate].
When Crown crawls under the gate to steal the Monet, he puts on a surgical glove which we never see him remove, although we see all of his movements from when he enters the gate until he exits (he's not wearing the glove at the exit). [Watch the close up shot of him picking up the closed case with the painting in off the bench. The glove is being dropped with the other hand. However why it has vanished at the scene of the crime after is somewhat of a mystery.]
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