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When Craig and Maxine are speaking with their first client (the "Fatman"), Maxine has a clipboard with paper on top on the desk in front of her. When the shot changes, the blue clipboard is now at the top, neither Maxine nor Craig removed the paper. See more...

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Being John Malkovich (1999) - 7 corrections

Directed by Spike Jonze, starring Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Cusack, John Malkovich (add more)

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

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When Lotte chases Maxine through JM's subconscious she shoots at her while she escapes through a door. The bullet hole in the door frame appears a second later. [The laws of real-world physics don't necessarily apply to a chase taking place inside a person's subconscious.]

Edit Corrected by zendaddy621 Time

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Near the end, as Cameron Diaz approaches pregnant Maxin with a gun on the 7.5 floor, she accidentally knocks her head really hard on the door frame. [Why is this a mistake? The whole point about the 7.5 floor is that it's got a low ceiling, tiny doors and so forth. Of course people bash their heads occasionally.]

Edit Corrected by Tailkinker

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After having been inside John Malkovich Craig gets dropped at the New Jersey Turnpike. When he sends Lotte off through the portal next, he says he'd pick her at the same place where he was dropped. Not only that he knew, after this completely novel and one-time experience, that the portal would lead into JM again, but that he also knew where it would end is more than one would expect from someone who hasn't read the screenplay till the end. [He simply guesses that she will come out at the same point. It's a logical assumption.]