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The Truman Show (1998) - 34 mistakes

Directed by Peter Weir, starring Ed Harris, Jim Carrey (add more)

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Mistake Visible crew/equipment: When Truman takes his high school sweetheart to the beach, her "father" comes to get her. There is a shot through the father's button cam showing Truman backing away. Look at Truman's shirt and you will see not one but two human shadows. One is the father and the other is the "button" cameraman.

Mistake Continuity: When Truman is going mental, with his wife in his car and they are about to go around the circle loads of times, it shows a shot of the car from the back. If you look at his wife's seatbelt it is on. However, a couple of seconds later it has another rear shot of the car and you can see the wife putting on her seatbelt again, when she already had it on.

Mistake Continuity: In the scene where Truman is on the boat, it shows a shot of him wearing a green shirt and black trousers but in the next shot he is wearing a blue shirt and khaki trousers.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: After Truman sees his father as a homeless man there is a scene where he runs into a vehicle (before the dog runs past). This shot is from the ground looking up. Take a look at the reflection in the passing car, you can see the crew and equipment.

Mistake Revealing: When Truman is first discovered escaping on the boat, they go to a camera shot of his face. If you look at the water, the boat is not moving at all. They use a similar shot later in the scene after the storm. You can also tell the background is the same as the large wall that Truman crashes his boat into.

Mistake Other: When Truman is standing at the open doorway at the very end, and is addressed directly by Cristof, during some of the shots, the open doorway behind him becomes a black backing board, visible from the way the light falls on it.

Mistake Continuity: When Truman is on the bus to go to Chicago, he climbs on, and the door shuts. The bus driver screws up the motor, and when we flash back, the door is wide open.

Mistake Continuity: When Truman talks to Marlon, who is stocking the vending machine in the shop, Marlon's head jumps from looking at Truman to looking inside the machine, placing the bar, in a single cut.

Mistake Continuity: When Meryl takes the Chef's Pal out of the paper bag, the lettuce around the bread disappears.

Mistake Continuity: The FM LED on the car's radio appears in the outside shots but disappears when seen from the inside of the panel.

Mistake Continuity: Truman picks up the fallen lamp from its upper part. A frame later he is holding it from the side.

Mistake Continuity: At the ferry, the first shot shows the blinds opened. From inside the ticket place the blinds are closed.

Mistake Continuity: At the end, when Truman is supposedly looking into the sun, there is a shadow on one side of his face, indicating that the light source for that shot is to his side.

Mistake Continuity: When Jim Carey's friend is stocking the vending machine, he stocks one side with candy that is in brown paper. He then starts on the next side with candy with yellow wrappers. Then the view switches and now the yellow is brown. Then the view switches again, and the paper is yellow again.

Mistake Continuity: When Truman opens the trunk in the basement, the stuff inside changes completely in the close-up.

Mistake Continuity: In the travel agency, some pencils appear, others disappear, and others change position during the whole scene.

Mistake Continuity: When Truman meets his father on the street, the father turns his head and looks at his son. The angle changes and his head repeats the movement.

Mistake Continuity: When the lamp falls on the pavement, its front part breaks completely. When Truman picks it up it is fixed.

Mistake Continuity: When the lamp falls, the shadows on the street are irregular. The next wide angle shows straight edgy shadows, nothing to do with the previous ones.

Mistake Continuity: When Truman is watching how the lamps falls from the sky, the shadow on the front of his car appears and disappears depending on the angle shot.

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