In the scene when Baby is changing her clothes in the back of Johnny's car the lights and shadows in the car are moving in the wrong direction. See more...
My aunt has stayed at the resort where the movie was set, and she lives around there. Apparently the crew spray painted the trees green because it wasn't really summer. See more...
Directed by Emile Ardolino, starring Patrick Swayze (add more)
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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.]
Corrected by shortdanzr
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.]
Corrected by shortdanzr
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."]
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.]
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.]
Corrected by Jane Doe
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.]
Corrected by Jane Doe
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.]
Corrected by Jane Doe
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?]
Corrected by Jane Doe
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.]
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.]
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?]
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.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
In the scene where they are dancing on the log, as the camera zooms in and out you notice that sometimes Baby has shoes on and sometimes she doesn't. [Correction - she is barefoot the whole time. The light on her feet makes it look like shoes.]
In the scene where Baby arrives at the staff quarters with Jonny's cousin, they are both carrying watermelons when Jonny questions why she is here the camera shot is of her and she says " I carried a watermelon" the next shot is of Jonny and she is mouthing the same words to him, camera shot back to Baby and she is verbally kicking herself, mouthing the same words. [Baby is mouthing the words again because she realised what a dumb thing she just said.]
At the last and famous dance-scene, after Johnny and Baby have started dancing, you can hear that the people in the crowd are clapping to the music. But when the camera shows the crowd, nobody's clapping. [I thought that at first, but realised that it is the dancers clapping, and you can't see them because they are at the back of the hall.]
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