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Bowfinger (1999) - 15 mistakes

Directed by Frank Oz, starring Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Jamie Kennedy, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Martin, Terence Stamp (add more)

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Factual error: Daisy is an out of work jobbing actress but she has a credit card that will take the cost of developing and printing the stock used to shoot a feature film in 35mm! Since they are watching colour rushes with synchronised sound on film (not cheaper video) they are not doing this on the cheap, either. Minimum cost, for a 90 minute feature, allowing four takes of each shot (which we see them do) - £41,000.00 or around US$85,000.00. That's some credit card. Anyone got the name of the issuing company?

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Continuity: As Daisy walks past Slater to see Bobby, her arms are at her sides. In the next shot, her hands are behind her back, clenched together.

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Continuity: Bowfinger takes off his fake ponytail and puts it in his left pocket but when he gives his business card to Jerry Renfro, he puts his hand in the right pocket and his ponytail is attached to the card.

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Revealing: When Kit Ramsey shoots at the drums set, you can see the explosive charges on the cymbals.

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Continuity: In the scene where Daisy is supposed to meet Bobby at his place, when Bobby empties out his box of money and sets it down, there's a dollar bill still inside of it. The doorbell rings, there's a shot of the door, then a shot of Bobby sitting next to the box and now the dollar bill has disappeared.

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Visible crew/equipment: When Stricker arrives at Kit's manor, the crew is reflected on his car.

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Continuity: How does Afrim "lose" his arm in the face-melting scene? He takes off his sunglasses and uses both arms to fold the sunglasses and throw them into the police car (he even uses his left hand to throw them in), and yet somehow his left arm drops off as it "melts."

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Visible crew/equipment: When Kit Ramsey runs away from the restaurant after Carol talked to him, you can see the crew member reflected on his car. It can't be the crew in the film.

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Continuity: When Kit is reciting "Keep it together" at his MindHead session, he holds his hands up in one shot to gesture at each word, but in the next shot, his hands are in his lap, folded close.

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Audio problem: When the premiere of "Chubby Rain" starts there is a shot from the back of the audience and you can hear a lot of screaming and clapping, and yet you cannot see anyone's hands moving. However at the end we see a very similar shot, with clapping again and you can see they are doing it this time. Clearly someone forgot to tell the extras in the first shot so they put the sound on afterwards.

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Visible crew/equipment: Just before Bowfinger is going to give the screenplay to Kit Ramsey, the crew is reflected on Kit's car when he opens the door.

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Continuity: When they are filming the scene on the highway, where Slater is going backward with his car, Kit's driver has a gray shirt, but when we see them from the outside a few shots later, he has a black shirt.

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Plot hole: During the filming of one of the scenes, why is Slater shocked that Kit really has plutonium? Since he doesn't know that Kit is being filmed without his permission, he should have been expecting what he said.

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Continuity: In Kit's restaurant confrontation scene, Carol's wig is being put on. In this shot, we see Daisy's arms are both up at her sides, as if she's twiddling her fingers (or something similar). In the next shot, Daisy's arms are behind her back, her hands clenched.

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Continuity: There is a scene where "cops" get out of the car to stop Eddie Murphy and the Afrim's face melts (?). The skinny cop appears out of the car then back in then out.

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