Factual error: When hero boy and girl and Billy are on the runaway car at the north pole, they crash into the stopper at the end of the tracks. They are flung backwards when in reality, due to inertia, they should have been flung forward into the guard rail.
The Polar Express (2004)
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Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Tom Hanks, Michael Jeter, Chris Coppola, Leslie Zemeckis
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Conductor: Sometimes seeing is believing. And sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.
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Question: What kind of instrument was the bum playing when we first meet him?
Answer: Violin.
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Answer: The instrument is called a Hurdy-Gurdy. It is a type of wound string instrument.