Holes (2003) - 45 mistakes

Continuity: Charles Walker has a gold tooth. In the scenes where he is wealthy it is on the left side of his mouth. In the scene where he is poor and dusty, pointing a gun at Kate, it on the right side of his mouth.

Revealing: In the overhead view of the bus driving across the desert to Camp Greenlake the dust behind the bus is CG, and near the end of the scene the bus moves up in the frame and the end of the dust trail cuts off with a straight line.

Continuity: The cast even points this out on the commentary: At the camp, where the tents and cabins are, there are trees at times and sometimes there aren't.

Continuity: When we see Stanley after he has taken his shower and Mr. Sir is trying to shoot the lizard, Stanley is far away from his pile and close to Mr. Sir. In the very next shot, he is only a couple steps from his pile and farther from Mr. Sir than before.

Continuity: In the scene where Madame Zeroni is explaining to Ilya Yelnats about the curse that will be bestowed upon him if he doesn't carry her up the mountain after presenting the pig to Myra's father, her blouse is a blue button-up with gold stripes and no collar. Then the camera looks at Ilya, and then back at Madame Zeroni. When it looks back at Madame Zeroni, you can see that her blouse is now a gold button-up with a collar.

Continuity: At the end part, when the kids at Camp Green Lake go dance in the rain, we see Zero looking up and his hair is in the air. In a different camera angle, his hair is put down by the rain. But when the camera returns to him looking up, his hair is up again.

Continuity: When Zero runs away we see Stanley again taking his hat off but then the camera goes to a further angle we see Stanley not even touching his hat.

Continuity: in the scene where Mr. Sir gets angry at the boy who said, "What happened to your face?" he asks the campers if he looks good and you see D-Tent sitting in the upper left hand corner, everyone is sitting down. In the close up of D-Tent, X-Ray and Armpit are standing then. In the next shot with Mr. Sir, you see Armpit and Magnet going to sit down. Then back to Mr. Sir, you see X-Ray standing.

Deliberate "mistake": When Kate Barlow shoots the Sheriff, she shoots him between the eyes, but when she kisses him there is no hole or anything on his face.

Continuity: In the scene where Trout's gang burns the school and kills Sam, there is a part where Katherine runs into the sheriff's office then exits. A few seconds later, Katherine runs by a shop on which the name is reversed. Very obvious.

Continuity: When Stanley is in the cafeteria for the first time, he walks over to the counter to get his food and he has a cup on his tray, when there is a close-up of his tray, the cup is gone.

Continuity: When Stanley finds the lipstick tube of K.B., X-Ray takes the tube then Stanley stops him. We see two angles (in front and behind) and Squid keeps changing his spot from left to right every time we see a new angle.

Continuity: At the beginning when Stanley is digging his first hole, he has gloves in some shots and doesn't in others. (Specifically when he's complaining about the other guys' dirt).

Continuity: When Stanley drives up in the bus, he sees the black guy, and he fades away. at the same time, the bus window frame fades in, too.

Continuity: After Zero asks "Did they have red X's on them?" we see Zero, Squid, and Armpit. Armpit is bent low over the table, but in the very next shot when he says "What else can you do," he is sitting up straight.

Continuity: When the boys are surprised that Zero talked we see Armpit and X-Ray. X-Ray is holding food, but in the next shot he's just making a fist.

Continuity: In the scene at the end where they open the chest you can see the father with rubber gloves on, he takes his left glove off to look at the stock papers. You see him with his right glove on still, then caveman takes one of the papers from his father and he doesn't have any gloves on, and in the next shot he has it back on his right hand

Other: When Sam is selling his onions, he asks an old man to take his hat off so he can see if he's bald so he'll know if he needs to sell him some hair growing tonic. The old man is just barely taking off his hat and before Sam can even tell the old man has no hair, Sam says "Mm hm, just as I thought."

Audio problem: In the scene where you see Stanley's lawyer's car for the first time in the distance and Twitch says, "Jaguar-nice car," Magnet replies, but his lips aren't moving.

Continuity: When Sam is being chased out into the lake there is some sort of ball right beside his boat when he gets shot, but when they shoot him the ball has disappeared.