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Annie (1982) - 17 corrections

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Annie's birth certificate that Mr. Warbucks reads says Annie was born in October 1922. For her to be ten it would have to have been sometime after October 1932 but before October 1933 or else she'd be 11. Franklin D. Roosevelt is president in the movie, but it's too early. The story takes place at Christmas time [so must be 1932, otherwise she'd be 11], but Roosevelt wasn't inaugurated until 1933. [Although the original play takes place at Christmas, there is no evidence that this movie does the same. The facts of outdoor scenes having people wearing summer clothes [i.e. sleeveless dresses and t-shirts without coats/hats/gloves etc.] and the lack of Christmas decorations and the song "Christmas in New York" determine the movie takes place in the summer of 1933 hence Annie would be ten and Roosevelt would be president.]
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When Annie has brought Sandy back to see the orphans, Annie sings a bit, then some others, then Tessie. She sings: 'Specially when you're all alone in the night and you're small and terribly frightened..." it's clear that her lips are not in time with her recording. [Molly moves in front of Sandy and is moving her lips ever so slightly which makes it appear that she is supposed to be singing this line. It is actually the little girl hugging Sandy's lower half, resting her head near his tail, that is singing this line of the song.]
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The movie's climax takes place at a railroad draw bridge. However, there is no such bridge near the location where the story takes place. Warbucks' mansion is at 987 5th Ave according to the orphanage girls who are running there from One 5th Ave, going north. The kidnap pickup truck passes the girls going south at the NYC Public Library, which is 5th Ave and 40th St. Punjab in the autocopter finds the truck on Canal Street going east, which means they are headed for one of three bridges: the Manhattan, the Williamsburg or the Brooklyn. Seconds later they arrive at a draw bridge. All three of those bridges are suspension bridges, not draw bridges. [While in the helicopter, Punjab calls in and says, "They're at the B&O Bridge", which is a railroad bridge, shown as such, not any of the suspension bridges meant for automobiles. Perhaps that one is a drawbridge, or was at the time.]
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Annie, a small, probably weak, 10 year old girl, manages to prevent herself from falling from the bridge, simply by holding onto a very small gap by the tips of her fingers. Super strength? [No, not super strength, ADRENALINE. She was being chased and now climbing up this bridge with nowhere to go. Her adrenaline was probably through the roof.]
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In the scene where Punjab is rescuing Annie from the bridge, he tells her he needs her to hold on as he need both hands to hold on to his turban. However he then continues the entire descent only holding on with one hand? [He tells her to hold HIM with both hands.]
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In the scene where the girls get a dead rat and stick it down Miss Hannagan's shirt, when she is yelling at them one of the girls (the one with long dirty blonde hair) is mouthing the lines. [Miss Hannagan is a very predictable person. She usually says the sames things, (with anger, cruelty ect.) and the girl may have said it along just to be mouthy.]
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If Annie was dropped off at the orphanage as a baby and they aren't supposed to have any fun and really don't have any toys or anything, where does she learn how to swim? She jumps into Mr. Warbucks's pool the day after she arrives and starts doing a backstroke. [The orphanage may have taught the girls how to swim, in the event that they were ever around deep water. Just because the orphanage doesn't have a swimming pool, that doesn't mean that the local neighborhood didn't have a community swimming pool. So, Annie could have very well learned how to swim.]
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Right after Annie sings "Maybe" you can see Molly tossing around, when she does this she throws a clean stuffed animal horse to the ground. If they are in a grungy orphanage in 1933 with Miss Hanigan, who doesn't "care for them a smidge when they're in an orphanage", why would Molly have a clean stuffed animal? [Stuffed animals, even if they're in a dusty house actually can last awhile. I still have stuffed animals from when I was a baby that have never been cleaned and theres not a speck on them.]
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In the very beginning, when Annie is singing "maybe" by the window, you can see that she's only got a dirty knit dress on, but later when she's comforting another orphan, you can clearly see that shes got knee-length shorts on. Maybe the producers thought she was showing a bit too much "leg" for the 1930's. [Annie has her knees up to her chest and she has pulled the knit dress over her knees, you can see her pulling her legs out when she finishes her song.]
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When Annie kicks Mr. Warbucks after her karate lesson, he asks Punjab to help him with his leg. Punjab works his magic and Mr. Warbucks' leg feels better - well, it should since she kicked him in the other leg. [Annie kicked Mr. Warbucks in the left leg. The leg the magic guy heals is the left leg so he healed the correct leg.]
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In the scene where Annie and Grace get dressed for the movie, they sing and dance. Grace is wearing a silky undergarment and has her hair down. There is a cut to Annie tap dancing and then they leave the room. Grace is now fully dressed and has her hair up in a rather elaborate style. She couldn't have done all that in such a short period of time. [This is simply a way of getting things moving faster, just like in cartoons. They wouldn't have sung the song and waited for grace to go and get changed and then have gone to the movies.]
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When Miss Hanigan, Rooster, and Lily are singing easy street, if you watch, Lily has a hole in her dress and you can see her bra, and in the next shot the hole is gone. [There is no hole, I have checked this. It only looks like there is a hole and it is more likely a fact that the laundry put bleach in with her colored dress.]
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When Rooster and his partner turn up outside the orphanage posing as Annie's long lost parents, Miss Hannigan claims to be taken in by them and wouldn't have known it was her own brother. However, when searching for Annie's broken locket, she reveals that she knew Annie's parents had been killed in a fire many years previously. I know she was a drunk, but surely even she'd remember Annie's parents were already dead? [Miss Hannigan knows Rooster is her own brother. Its just a plan concucted by them, hence the bathroom scene, to get Annie back.]
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At the beginning, Annie tells Miss Farrell she's 10 years old. Annie's birth certificate reads that she was born in 1920, yet the film takes place in 1933. [Mr. Warbucks reads Annie's birth certificate when her "parents" (who are actually imposters) present it to him toward the end of the movie. He reads it softly, but he does actually say "1922" as the year of Annie's birth. The subtitles (on the DVD) also say "1922".]
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In the scene where Punjab is in the copter looking for Annie, you can see the skyline in the background as he flies around. The problem is there were no skyscrapers or neon lights in the early 30's. [The Empire State building was completed in 1931. Neon signs date back to the 1800's, and the first ones were introduced to the US in 1923. Both pre-date the 1933 timeline of the movie.]
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When Punjab takes off in the helicopter to rescue Annie from Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters and Carol Burnette toward the end of the film, the copter takes off from Daddy Warbucks mansion you can see a window air conditioner in the second story window. Did those exist in the 1930's? [Yes, window air conditioners were invented in 1902. They were originally used in Australia, but likely would have been in the U.S. by the 1930's.]
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When Miss Hannagan comes in the room at night because the girls were singing she yells at them to get up and start to clean and Annie said "but it's in the middle of the night" and then in the next scene when they're cleaning and singing, if you look out the window there is a bright daylight. [This is because the girls have been cleaning all night. Obviously they would not show a long boring scene of cleaning, so the change from night to day is to show how long the girls have been cleaning.]
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