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Colin Sullivan: I'm going to need the identity of your undercovers.

Dignam: Blow me, alright? But not literally, though. Unfortunately, there's no promotion involved for you.

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This was Martin Scorsese's first film to win Best Picture. And his first Oscar for best Director. Martin also said that this was the first movie he ever made with a plot. See more...

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The Departed (2006) - 70 mistakes

Directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Matt Damon (add more)

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

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Continuity: Costigan enters the bar and points at a guy with a leather cap. In the background, a waiter is leaning on the bar, who then stands up and starts to walk. In the following close shot he is back in the previous place, leaning.

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Continuity: When Costigan is beating up the Providence goons, he is hitting the one in the cooler with his right hand. In the next shot he is hitting with his left.

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Revealing: In the shootout at the elevator near the end of the movie, when Sullivan shoots the last guy, you can clearly see kneepads under his pants, to soften the fall.

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Continuity: In the final scene of the movie, when Sullivan is walking down the hallway and into his apartment, his belt is light brown. But when he's dead on the floor, it's a dark brown, almost black.

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Continuity: When Sullivan crosses the street there's a lot of people going to the right. From the CCTV recording there's just one person.

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Continuity: The dead woman on the beach lies with her feet together, but a shot later they are spread apart.

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Deliberate "mistake": In all the shoot-outs, the bullets that hit the cars spark, which bullets do not do, and leave no hole, dent, or even a small scratch. They do, however, break the glass.

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Factual error: When Queenan and Costigan are riding the Red Line, Queenan gets on at Park Street station. Costigan tells him, "Get off at the next stop, South Station." South Station is two stops away; the next stop after Park Street is Downtown Crossing. However, Queenan does get off at the next stop, and it is magically South Station.

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Visible crew/equipment: When Ellerby introduces Dignam and he describes his undercover unit, a microphone is seen moving around at the top, center of the screen.

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Continuity: After Queenan gets thrown off the building there is a shoot out, when the van drives away the back windows get shot out twice.

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