After Bruce gets hit by the truck on the highway he is talking to God. The shot keeps switching from behind Bruce to facing him - in the shots behind his head a lock of hair is seen hanging over his forehead, though shots facing him show no hair. See more...
In the scene where Bruce switches everything to files, then Post Its, that scene was shot on September 11, 2002. So everyone that worked on the set, all the cast and crew, wrote down something about how they felt about the attacks on a Post-It. Every one of those was in that scene. See more...
Directed by Tom Shadyac, starring Jennifer Aniston, Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Philip Baker Hall, Steve Carell (add more)
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In Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Jim Carrey visited a friend of his who was redirecting a Norwegian whaling fleet. He says "they'll find Jimmy Hoffa before they find any humpback whales". In this film, Jimmy Hoffa's body is found. [This is a vague coincidence between two movies, not trivia.]
In the scene where Bruce is training the dog that the house is not a bathroom and outside is, he goes between the words bathroom and house turning back and forth to each one. During the rant, he says "bathroom" while facing the house and "house" while facing the tree outside. [At best that would be a character mistake. But it most likely was done to show the confused state Bruce was in.]
Corrected by papajim
After Bruce's car gets vandalised by the thugs, they manage to crack his drivers window. This wouldn't be possible, its tempered glass which means that it would shatter into little bits, its a safety feature. [In many older cars windows could be broken like on Bruces car, They used to do them like that to keep them from breaking apart like tempered glass. So it could be that his car was built before tempered glass.]
When Bruce's boss buys his lunch from a man in an apron, telling him it's "An exellent choice," this is a reference to the movie "I am Sam," where the protagonist had a similar appearance and used that same phrase over and over. [Somebody selling food wearing an apron is hardly an unusual choice of attire and "an excellent choice" would similarly be a common phrase in the circumstances. Without citation that this is an intentional nod by the filmmakers to "I Am Sam", this falls into the realm of pure coincidence, which invalidates it as trivia.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
Number seven comes a lot of times in this movie. When Bruce is testing God the last number of fingers he shows is seven. The number of his apartment is 304 or 7 if you add the numbers up. He is working on Channel 7. When Bruce enters the Omni Presents building, the sign downstairs says everything is on the 7th floor. And God tells him to be back to help him with the cleaning on 7th at 7 o'clock. Seven in the Bible is the symbolism of perfection or completeness. [Thats obvious, so it isn't trivia.]
In the scene where Grace leaves Bruce stranded at the party, he begins walking beside a lake, and his clothes are soaking wet before it starts to rain. [His clothes are soaking wet because he caused it to rain in the party to make everyone leave. He sat on the couch and got soaked, then left.]
When Bruce enters the diner shortly after being told he had God's powers, the waitress asks if he would like some soup - the special of the day. A few seconds later in the background there is a chalk board stating the special of the day is fish and chips. [Most diners have a soup special *and* and an entrée/side dish special. The soup in the special is generally the only soup available that day in smaller diners like this one. That's why it's special.]
Corrected by Phixius
At the very end of the film Bruce is reporting on a drive for blood donors, and Grace leads him over to the booth to give blood himself - he is even wearing a tourniquet. However, he is supporting himself on a walking stick - he is not fully recovered from the injuries he received when he was run over, which happened when he was hit by a moving car - injuries which left him clinically dead. There is absolutely no way in the world that a person who has suffered life threatening injuries and has undergone the (inevitably) intensive drug therapies and surgical procedures involved while under treatment in hospital in the fairly recent past would be allowed to give blood. [It's a publicity stunt. He has to be shown *giving* blood. Whether or not the blood is used or simply disposed of is irrelevant, as long as he is seen in the act of donating, the message is put across (that donating blood is painless and helpful).]
Corrected by Gary O'Reilly
After Bruce locks the camera van, when he says, "I guess every dog has his day," the small camera he's holding doesn't have the "scope" out. When he turns to the boy, the scope is out again. (The scope is the thing he blows into.) [You can clearly see Bruce unfold the "scope" before he turns to the boy.]
When Bruce and Grace are arguing about having a mediocre lives, if you pause it at the right moment, you will see that the box actually starts moving a second before Bruce (Jim Carey) touches it. (Most visible on DVD.) [According to site rules, if you have to pause, slo-mo, or zoom in to see something, it's not a movie mistake.]
When all the cars move out of the way for Bruce's car the traffic lights are blinking very quickly. [This is part of the parting of the traffic. The lights change to green all the way down for Bruce's Saleen while the cars are turned to the side of the road. Bruce made them change for him.]
In the scene where Bruce and Jennifer are sitting in the car at the blood drive, Bruce's watch reads: 9:05. Afterwards, when he arrives at the office, the wall clock reads: 8:35. Either the clock is going backwards or it took him 11 hours to reach the office. [Or the clock or watch were not changed during the last daylight savings time change. Not necessarily a movie mistake, as it can easily be explained by a clock not being changed for daylight savings time. There was a clock at a place I used to work that was wrong for six months of the year because no one could reach the clock to change the time to daylight savings time.]
When Bruce first meets God, or the janitor as he thinks it is then, you can see the sign "Stairway" in many shots. A little play on the song "Stairway to Heaven." [Far too obvious to be trivia and the phrase "Stairway to Heaven" didn't originate from the song, it is an ancient expression.]
In the scene where Bruce is getting Evan fired, right after Evan says "And my tiny little nipples went to France.", both cameramen lean inwards to stare at Evan, and we can see the text on the TelePrompTers. The left TelePrompTers, which Evan was reading from, says "little tiny nipples". [So Evan made a mistake, newsreaders do that all the time. It doesn't change the intent of the "news" and isn't a movie mistake.]
How could God have made Bruce come to him on the 7th at 7 if he can't mess with free will? [It's never said that God can't mess with free will, just that he won't, and that he won't give Bruce the power to do so either. Anyway, he doesn't need to mess with free will. He could set a chain of events in motion that culminated in that, events that are so seemingly irrelevant that it wouldn't be noticed by us. After all, he IS God.]
Corrected by Gary O'Reilly
In the scene at the Maid of the Mist, Ally Loman tells Bruce that the Maid of the mist has been around for 156 years. Then Irene Dansfield is introduced as her mother having ridden on the maiden voyage. Her mother must have had her when she was about 80 to make that possible. [The boat tour of the Niagara Falls was 156 years old at the time the movie came out, yes, but in this time, ALL the different boats have been named "Maid of the Mist", even when new boats replaced older models. So the tour of the river past the falls is 156 years old, but the actual boat Bruce and Irene are on is younger than that. Most likely, it is the (currently running) "Maid of the Mist" I or II, who was put into service in 1955 and 1956, respectively, and Irene's mother should have had no problems catching one of THOSE maiden voyages.]
Corrected by Twotall
In the scene where Bruce is seducing Grace, right in the shot of her collapsing onto the floor in the bathroom, you can see she knocks the toilet paper roll off the rack as she hits the floor. When the shot shows her standing in the bathroom doorway with her hair all messed up, the toilet paper roll is now back onto the rack. [After Grace falls to the floor, the pangs of passion subside enough for her to get to her feet and come to the door. We do not see this, as the camera is only on Bruce (in the bedroom). It is not impossible that as she managed to compose herself enough to get up, she picked up the toilet paper roll and put it back. Many people do little tidying things like this absent-mindedly, while they are thinking about other things.]
Corrected by Twotall
Bruce is told that he has to wear a hairnet when interviewing the Kowalskis (bakery owners), but he is interviewing them from the front of the checkout counter - the same place customers pay for their food. Either all customers are made to wear hairnets when purchasing from the bakery (absurd), or Bruce should not have had to wear a hairnet at all. [While watching the deleted scenes on the DVD, it has Bruce actually inside the baking part of the store where he's trying to put together some sort of snack. Since he was originally going to go inside and help put together something in the bakery, it would make sense to have him wear a hairnet before the camera starts rolling.]
If you look at the scene where Bruce is answering the prayers on the computer frame by frame, it is actually the same 5 or 6 prayers used over and over. [Nothing unusual about that. Many prayers follow a set script - the Novena to St Jude and the Ave Maria are two examples. Since we know that most people are praying for the same thing (a lottery win) it follows that their prayers would be much the same anyway.]
When we hear the thugs "keying" the word hero onto Bruce's car, the sound effect is not long enough. Are we realy supposed to think that you can key a word onto a car with just three scrapes? [There are more than three scrapes, some of which are quiet.]
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