Real Genius (1985) - 9 mistakes

Continuity: In the scene where everyone is going to the Tanning Invitational, Chris grabs two Hawaiian Lei's and a straw hat from a girl at the door. He puts a blue lei on Mitch and holds on to the red one and the hat. The shot switches to just Chris and when it goes back to Mitch he has on the red lei. Back to Chris again who talks a little more then reaches over and puts the hat on Mitch's head, who is again wearing the blue lei.

Continuity: When Jordan brings in the automatic page turner she demonstrates it to Mitch. When it reaches over to turn the page the screen jumps and then the scene continues. This was two takes of the same shot spliced together poorly at the point that the page turner touches to the page on the right.

Factual error: In the scene where they are reprogramming the laser in the B1 bomber, Laslo enters the coordinates of 34 degrees, 10 minutes 15.21 seconds north latitude, 119 degrees, 7 minutes west longitude. I checked these coordinates at http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html and there is nothing there but woods. I checked the whole west latitude area from 7 min to 8 min and Dr. Hathaway's house (nor any other house or development) is anywhere in the area.

Continuity: Mitch's discovery of the trap door in the closet is inconsistent with his previous attempts while Lazlo was entering the closet. The trap door opens slowly about 2-3 seconds after the door is closed, when in the past he has opened the door right after Lazlo entered and the trap door was closed.

Continuity: In the scene where Jerry tracks the mis-fired shot of the laser, the monitor displays a valley setting with a red cross-hair in the middle of it. It cuts to Jerry speaking, then back to the monitor where the display has changed to a residential area without the red cross-hair in the middle to show Jerry's house.

Continuity: In the scene with the Smart People on Ice, Chris Knight is wearing earmuffs shaped like bears in the first shot. In the next shot they are around his neck and in the shot after that they are on his ears again.

Other: When Mitch calls his mom asking to come home Kent and his friends hear him make the call. Mitch then has some conversation with his mother. Kent and his friends begin recording the conversation at the point where Mitch says "I want to come live with you". The problem is that when the recording gets played back in the cafeteria the conversation is replayed from the beginning which was before Kent had begun recording it.

Continuity: When Chris puts the liquid nitrogen coin into the coffee machine his hand drops down before he selects his coffee. His hand then change position quickly then he reaches up to select his coffee. This is obviously two different takes spliced together poorly to create this shot.

Revealing: When Kent rolls out of the front door with the popcorn, it is obviously a stunt double due to the man's hair being brown/black and Kent having blonde hair.