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Lynn Bracken: You're the first man in five years who didn't tell me I look like Veronica Lake inside of a minute.

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LA Confidential (1997) - 30 mistakes

Directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kevin Spacey, Kim Basinger, Russell Crowe (add more)

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

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Continuity: Exley has gauze or cotton stuffed on the left and right side of his upper lip (a la The Godfather). It's supposed to look like swelling from the unbelievable beating he just took. If you look at him closely in these several shots, the amount of cotton in his lip changes. Then later the bruises are only on his left cheek, with no swelling of his lip.

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Continuity: In the final shoot-out, Officer White advises Detective Exley that he is going under the building by pointing to a square open hole in the floor. The first shot of the hole shows it is clear with nothing blocking it; when White walks over to it there is now a board covering the hole that he has to kick through to break it.

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Factual error: During the interrogation room scene, it is very bright in the room looking into the interrogation room, and it is dimmer inside the interrogation room. Although this would mean that the suspect would be able to see everyone watching as for him to just see a reflection, it needs to be bright his side, and darker the other side. True the glass could have been slightly reflective on one side, but the laws of optics still apply.

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Continuity: Mrs. Lefferts' glasses move from being under her handkerchief that's on her head to on top of it without her taking them off. This is when Bud White interviews her in her home.

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Other: In the fight scene, Exley hits all the soft boxes, but he rams his head into his hands so he doesn't hit the hard file cabinet.

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Visible crew/equipment: The shadow of a boom mic moves on the bookcase, above Bud White's head, in DA Lowe's office.

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Continuity: Exley's little cow lick bangs, on the left side of his forehead, changes a lot throughout this scene.

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Continuity: When Kevin Spacey goes looking for the maroon Mercury Coupe, he drives up to the house where it is and the garage doors are closed. When he sneaks up one of the doors is open.

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Audio problem: When Bud White meets Captain Dudley for a drink in the bar, he says, "What do you want, Captain?" but his mouth moves to a different sentence.

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Factual error: When Kim Basinger is watching the film of Veronica Lake in her house, we hear the dialogue... but the projector is not a sound projector. It can't be a separate audio tape because she only turned off the projector, but the sounds stopped at the same time.

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