Secondhand Lions (2003) - 28 mistakes

Continuity: When Hub and Walter are talking by the lake, Hub's, and later Walter's, blanket repositions itself each time the camera cuts back.

Factual error: When Walter is sitting in front of the gas station, and the uncles are trying to talk him into coming home, the boy is holding a page from the phone book, looking at an area code map. The page says "US WEST" which did not exist in the 50s or 60s and never existed in Texas where the movie was set. US WEST was created in the 80s as a result of the breakup of AT&T and then existed only in the western US.

Continuity: As Walter and Mae arrive at the Uncle's house, Mae gets out of the car and fixes her make up. In the wide shot she does not have her parasol in her hand. The close up shows her parasol in her hand.

Continuity: While they eat their barbecue and the young punk disturbs Hub, Walter is holding his bottle with both hands. But in an overhead shot, he holds it only with one and the other arm is under the bar.

Continuity: After Walter jumps out of the car when he was leaving with his mom and Stan, he runs along the left side of a bridge. There are two wide shots from below where he is running on the right side.

Factual error: In the scene where Robert Duvall, Michael Caine and Haley Joel Osment are in a general store/coffee shop and the young punks come in, there is a Coca-Cola machine shown that has the "Wave" logo and a slogan that was used in the 1970s, not in the time period in which the movie took place (1950s/60s).

Continuity: When Walter and his mom arrive at the uncle's house, he pulls one foot back into the car and then leaps back to avoid the dogs. The camera pans back and both feet are still on the ground.

Continuity: After receiving the sheriff's phone call, when older Walter drives toward his uncles' house, in the exterior shot the rearview mirror is gone, only to suddenly appear in the interior shot and when he gets out of the car.

Continuity: When the Acme Animal Movers deliver the lioness, the delivery guy standing on the flatbed has a glove on his right hand when he says, "King of the beasts," but in the overhead shot the right glove is off, then next shot it's back on again.

Continuity: When Walter's mother drives off Walters stands with his suitcase on the far side of the road. The camera cuts to the dogs chasing after the car, and when it cuts back to him he is standing on the other side of the road.

Continuity: In the scene where Hub fights the young punks, the level of Haley Joel Osments's drink keeps changing.

Continuity: When Walter's mother last drives off, all the dogs jump at Walter's window, then sit right next to the car. When the car pulls away however, the dogs are a few feet back and not in a line, but when the camera cuts back to the dogs, they are where they were to begin with.

Other: The uncles fire shotguns a lot in the movie, but the guns have no recoil. Shotguns kick very hard which would be easily seen.

Continuity: When Walter puts the blanket over Hub's shoulders one can tell from the reflection that the moon is across the lake. However, Walter's shadow on hub indicates that the moon is behind him.

Continuity: When Walter unlocks the chest he pulls the chain on the lid to the side. When the camera angle changes the chain is pointing towards him.

Continuity: The arrangement of eggs and sausages on Walter's plate keeps changing during his first breakfast at his uncles' house.

Continuity: When the lion cage is standing in the yard, sunlight and shade keeps changing. First the cage is fully in the shade, but when the uncles approach the sun is shining on it. When the cage is open, the light on Garth and on the lion's fur comes from opposite directions. After the cage is closed it's back in the shade again.

Continuity: In the scene where the boys tear off the side of the lion's crate, what you see them tear off is much smaller than in the next shot.

Continuity: When Walter goes to bed in the tower room the light that appears through the windows is much too bright for the little petroleum lamp he was carrying.

Continuity: When the airplane delivery man hands the manual to Hub, the piece he was just unloading changes from standing upright to horizontally between shots.

Continuity: In the first scene the uncles fly their airplane under a bridge past a police car that's doing speed checks. While they do so we see the police officer wake up twice.

Continuity: When Walter opens the chest its contents are covered by a smooth layer of sand. When he reaches in in the next shot there are already tracks made by his fingers. Then he removes the sand from Jasmine's photograph that we can see her face, but in the next shot the face is mostly covered again.

Continuity: When the four punks are sitting in the car outside the McCann compound one of them whines "I wanna go home." While he does that he holds his nose and bends his head back. When the camera changes to a wider angle he does the same move again.

Continuity: Before Walter's mother drives off she asks Walter to give her a big smile. While he is trying very hard the camera cuts back and forth between him and his mom. When the camera is on him a rather strong wind moves his collar and his hair, and when it's on her there's no wind at all.

Continuity: When the naughty nephews break open the cage the lion lifts its head to growl at them. When the camera angle changes it's lifting its head again.

Continuity: When the first salesman holds up some papers they get shot out of his hand. They get blown into confetti (rather strange result of a gunshot, though), but when the salesman is gone the papers are lying on the ground intact.

Continuity: When Walter is viewing Hub's first sleepwalking episode, both he and the dogs are all looking at Hub, but when the camera cuts to the back of Walter and the dogs, the little white dog is suddenly looking toward the boat dock.

Continuity: When Garth gets the money from the cellar under the barn he leans a pile of wads upright against his petroleum lamp. When the camera angle changes the wads are lying on the floor.