Secret Window

Secret Window (2004)

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Continuity mistake: In the opening scene, Mort closes the door of his jeep before he goes into the hotel room. You can hear the sound of the door closing and it's visible in the rearview-mirror. As the camera moves out of the room, the jeep door is completely open. (00:02:05)

Nelleke Rietvink

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Suggested correction: The door just didn't actually catch. I've had cars like that, especially during the winter.

MovieFan612

Given that we see it stay closed for almost 4 seconds and hear it catch, it's a valid mistake.

Bishop73

If you've ever lived where it snows a lot, you'd know that door catches accumulate moisture (ice) and can open slowly, as it did in this case.

MovieFan612

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Suggested correction: Coincidence, not trivia.

MovieFan612

Even if you think it's a coincidence, it's still a valid trivia since it connects an actor and film to another role.

Bishop73

Other mistake: When Amy goes to the cabin at the end (where she gets killed) she is looking for Mort. She calls out for the dog (Chico). Wasn't she told earlier that Shooter killed Chico? (01:22:00)

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Suggested correction: First of all, this is a question, not a mistake. And the answer is no, she wasn't told. Mort told both the sheriff and Ken that Shooter killed his dog, and then later mentioned to a confused Ted that he buried his dog, but he never told Amy that Chico was dead.

Phaneron

Continuity mistake: Amy arrives at the cabin and sets down her shoulder bag in the doorway as she searches for Mort. When she realises that Mort has become a homicidal maniac, she runs for her life, but she pauses long enough to retrieve her shoulder bag at the doorway as she flees the cabin. The camera immediately cuts to an exterior shot as Amy exits the cabin and runs for her car, but her shoulder bag has suddenly vanished and is never seen again.

Charles Austin Miller

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Suggested correction: The bag falls off her right shoulder as she runs down the cabin steps.

Continuity mistake: When Mort is in Ken's office telling him about John harassing him. Ken punches the right side of the chess clock down to start it. Then Mort punches the left side, his right to stop it. Then when the camera switches back to Mort's point of view the the left side is up and the right side is down, then Ken punches down the left side to start it, when the right side should have been the one he had to press down to start it.

pross79

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Trivia: In a shot of Mort's coffee table, we see a book by Hunter Thompson. Johnny Depp (Mort) played Thompson in "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas" (1998).

Xofer

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Question: At the end of the credits, we hear Johnny Depp sing "mama's little baby loves shortnin' bread." Is there any reason for this, or a tie-in to the movie I missed?

Bishop73

Chosen answer: An additional reference to the full dominant personality takeover of Shooter, everything gravitates South Mississippi.

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