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Baby: Me? I'm scared of everything. I'm scared of what I saw, I'm scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you.

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In the scene where Patrick has just given his speech about how wonderful 'Baby' is, he finishes, walks to the side of the stage, puts down the mike stand and takes off his jacket. In the very next shot, he puts down the mike stand and takes off his jacket again. See more...

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The clothes that Baby and Johnny wear contrast. Johnny is always in dark clothing while Baby is always wearing light colours. See more...

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The song they play on the record player at the end of the movie, "I had the time of my life" has a drum machine, synthesizer, and a distorted guitar with feedback in it. These are musical innovations that did not yet exist in 1963. [That is not a drum machine. It's a live drummer.]
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When Baby goes to the golf coarse to ask her dad for money, her red and white shirt has long sleeves, but when she shows up to give the money to Penny, the same shirt is sleeveless. [Golf course is in the day, the dance club is at night. Plenty of time for her to change into another shirt.]
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In the final scene of the movie, you see Johnny and his friend put on a record (for "I Had the Time of My Life"). Even though it is the same song continuing, the manager later asks the band leader "Do you have sheet music on this?" even though it is a record and there are no singers present. [Obviously it is a record, Kellerman sees the positive reaction of his guests and wants to know if the band leader has sheet music on the song, so that they can play it live for the audience some day.]
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In the scene where Johnny breaks the car window, it's raining like crazy but the sun is shining brightly. It's seemed incongruous since I first saw the film in the 80s. [They are called sun showers. Common enough. At least in the states.]
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The time continuity of the movie doesn't makes sense. Baby's family comes to Kellerman's for 3 weeks - the 'season'. It couldn't have started prior to their arrival because the waiters get their orientation from Max and when Johnny and his sidekicks arrive, it is clear they have not been there earlier. However, Penny gets knocked up by Robbie the Creep and she has to be at least 2-3 months pregnant - back in '63 women didn't have pregnancy tests readily available and she would have had to wait for a doctor's office to do the old 'rabbit' test. So, how did Penny and Robbie hook up, and what kind of place is Kellerman's that is only 3 weeks long? [Maybe she just "knew" she was pregnant because they had unprotected sex a bunch of times and she no longer has her menstrual cycle.]
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In the dance class scene with Penny teaching a large group of adults, the camera starts by panning through the feet. Then it shows a view of the entire group. The front row is different in each shot (i.e. the person with red hi-heels is absent and the man with black shoes and black stockings is in a different place). [There were 2 men with black shoes and the woman in heels moved back in line, she didn't "disappear."]
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After Baby sees Penny crying in the kitchen she runs to get Billy, who is playing with something black in his hands, he places it down behind him but in later shots the item is gone. [What later shots? As soon as she tells him about Penny they leave the outdoor party and go to the kitchen - they never go back to that scene.]
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When Baby and Johnny are balancing on the log over the creek, you see a blue fall mat visible at the bottom of the screen. [I watched the scene two times, and the matt is not visible at all.]
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When Lisa first gets out of the car as they arrive at Kellermans, she is wearing a bow in her hair but in a later shot from the behind, there is no bow. [The bow is always on her head. In one shot, we only see less than 1/3 of her head when the camera is behind her. The bow is out of frame during that shot, but in other shots from behind, the bow is visible.]
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Right at the beginning of the film, 'Baby' is having a group dance lesson with Penny. On the wide shot with Penny wearing a red dress and showing the dance steps you can visibly see a sound boom at the top of the screen. [This is not on the Collector's Edition of the DVD.]
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When Johnny and Baby have the conversation about 'Have you had many women', Johnny gets out of bed totally naked. However, when Baby rolls over you can see that she is wearing underwear. This isn't very probable if they have just had sex. [When we see them, they're lying in bed having a coversation. Which means that they didn't *just* finish having sex. She had enough time to put on her underwear. Plus, Johnny's her first lover, who's to say that she was comfortable being completely naked?]
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When Lisa goes to Robby's room, there is a towel on the door handle, yet when she closes the door the towel is gone. [It probably slipped off and fell to the floor when Lisa put her hand on the door handle.]
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When Baby helps out at the magic show, the scene shows her facing one way then switches to her POV - which is completely opposite to what she should be seeing. [Not true. They show her laying down on her right side so, from her POV, the view is correct.]
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In the last dance scene where the camera zooms out to the dancers dancing, you can see that one of the male dancers elbows his female partner in the side, causing her to double up. [So he is a clumsy dancer. Never before has anyone hit someone or stepped on their partner's toes while dancing and caused them to get hurt?]
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During the scene where Johnny and Baby are on Penny's porch and Robbie comes up to them. Johnny jumps off the porch to fight Robbie and Baby yells "Johnny" but her lips don't move. [It's Penny's voice that yells "Johnny," but you can't see her face during the scene.]
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At the end of season show when Johnny has the record put on to dance. The guy puts the record and goes to place the needle on the record but then you can see him move the arm back off it. [No he doesn't.]
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When Baby and Johnny leave the resort to go and practise balancing over the creek in the forest, it's pouring rain when they're leaving. however, when Johnny realises that his keys are in the car, he goes over to knock the pipe out of the ground with his foot and it's sunny over there, three feet away from the car. [It's still raining, despite the patch of sun over the pipe.]
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In the scene when Johnny realises his keys are locked in his car and goes to kick the pole out of the ground there is a light on top of the pole. Where are the wires for the light? [There isn't a light on the pole, the sun is shining through the rain onto the top of the pole.]
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In the scene where Johnny and Baby are in the dance studio, Johnny puts the records down twice, once when he agrees to do the dance and the second time when Neil is saying to Baby, "He's hard to talk to but the ladies seem to like him" (you see him do this in the mirror) and then we see him slam the lid to the record player down, which scares Baby. [Johnny has several records in his hand. When he puts the first one away he still has some in his hand.]
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During the Houseman family's first dinner, Baby's father tells the owner of the hotel that Baby is going to change the world. The owner then asks Lisa what she's going to do and Baby says decorate. He responds by saying "she already does," but his lips don't move. [It is not the owner that says "she already does" it is Robby the waiter and soon to be love intrest. That is why you do not see the owner's mouth move.]
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