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Truman Burbank: Good morning! And in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!

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The Truman Show (1998) - 37 mistakes

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

Genres: Drama, Sci-fi

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Continuity: When Truman and Meryl are discussing in the kitchen, she threatens him with 3 kitchen gadgets. Depending on the shot, the position of the gadget in the middle keeps swapping from being equidistant from the others, or close to the one on the right.

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Continuity: When Truman stops in front of the bus, the position of the driver's right hand differs between the outside and inside shot.

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

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

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Continuity: When the lamp is about to fall, the aerial view show a very simple street. From street level, the place is filled with all sorts of decoration.

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Continuity: Just before Truman turns around to see his dad as a homeless man, there is a woman in a white sweater behind him. When Truman turns, the woman is in front of him.

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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.

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Continuity: When Truman meets his father, there's a man on a bike, 5 meters behind them, riding really slowly. A second later, from a new angle, the bicycle is 10 meters in front of him.

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

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

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Continuity: The lamp falls on a sunny side of the pavement. When the shot changes it's on a shady part.

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Continuity: In the scene just before Truman sees his dad as a homeless man, there is a woman in a white sweater holding a shopping bag in her right hand. When Truman turns, the bag switches to her left.

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Continuity: When Truman and his best friend are driving golf balls from uncompleted bridge, his friend hits a golf ball. After the ball is hit, the camera returns to friend as he has completed his shot, but the golf ball he just hit is still on the tee.

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Continuity: When Meryl holds the Chef's Pal, the position of her hands differs depending on the shot.

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Continuity: In the boat after the storm, Truman has a rope going over his thigh. A second later it is tied around by a big knot.

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Continuity: When Truman sees his father for the first time in the street, he has just bought a newspaper and magazine. When he runs after his father he throws the magazine and paper up and runs, yet when he stops because the bus has driven off he is holding the paper and magazine under his arm.

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Continuity: In the scene where a lamp fell from the sky in front of Truman, the damage caused to it seemed somewhat insubstantial, bearing in mind the height from which it surely must have fallen in order for it not to be visible from the ground in the first place.

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