License to Drive

Continuity mistake: When mom finds the failed test in Les's pocket, it is folded into eighths. Later, when dad shows the failed test to Les, it has only been folded into thirds.

William Bergquist

Continuity mistake: When Les pushes the Cadillac out of the driveway, you can see the Audi in the corner of the screen, but earlier, his sister had already taken it for the night.

Macalou

Continuity mistake: When Les' DMV examiner talks about his coffee being hot and filled "right to the brim" the amount in the cup increases between shots.

Macalou

Continuity mistake: In most of the film, the Cadillac has personalized license plates reading "GRANPA" or "GRANDPA", except at the drive-in restaurant, where the license plates read "BDR 529" (also the number on the Bluesmobile in "The Blues Brothers"). When they drive away from the restaurant, the "GRANPA" plate seems to shimmer and move around - an apparent traveling matte made in an attempt to correct the error.

Continuity mistake: During the opening scene where Les is driving the Ferrari, the front license plate appears, then disappears, appears then disappears.

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Continuity mistake: When the drunk driver is asleep in the Cadillac while he's going down the road, two of the four headlights are out. But later, right before the car is about to go off the hill, all four lights are working.

Macalou

Continuity mistake: When Les' dad pours the champagne, the glass is full of foam, but when the camera angle changes, the foam has suddenly completely disappeared between shots.

Macalou

Continuity mistake: When Les pushes the Cadillac out of the garage, he leaves the driver's door open as he goes to turn off the garage light. When the car continues to roll across the lawn and through a hedge, the door is closed and he cannot open it in time to stop the car.

Revealing mistake: When Les' mom is doing the laundry and "finds" the Test Failed notice, you can see that she actually had it in her hands the entire time. She transfers it from one hand into the other, then puts the hand with the paper into the pocket and pulls it right back out, then knocks it off onto the floor, and acts surprised.

Macalou

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Miss Hellberg: Well, Mr. Anderson... We were able to retrieve your test results from the computer. And as I suppose you already know, you failed. God giveth, and the DMV taketh away. You mustn't fuck with the Department of Motor Vehicle. We can make your life a living hell.

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Trivia: When Corey Feldman is banging the dent out of the hood of the Cadillac, he says not to worry about waking his parents as they are vampires. Feldman's movie before this one was Lost Boys where he was a vampire killer.

William Bergquist

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