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Anna McDoogles: I was just masturbating.

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When Mark and Greg exit the casino holding buckets of chips they won, Greg holds one of his buckets at an angle at which all chips should fall off. This is obviously a prop. See more...

The Invention of Lying (2009) - 4 corrections

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In wide shots of the city there are several religious buildings in the shot. [Several public buildings in the real world such as city halls, universities, museums, etc. can look like places of worship without being one, by having a similar architecture. It is possible that in the context of the movie, that's what these buildings are.]

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Wouldn't Mark's revelations about the afterlife lead to mass suicides? Unless I missed the part where Mark stated that suicide is against the "man-in-the-sky's" rules, this is a major plot hole that cannot be overlooked. Early in the movie Frank even mentions different suicide attempts. Why didn't Gervais and Robinson include a suicide rule in the screenplay? It would have been both logical and simple. [He say that killing is bad and by doing bad things you will not get your own mansion. so killing ones self would fall into the killing is bad catergory.]

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A major part of the movie is that religion is a lie that this world never had. Why then do they use the Gregorian calender? Mark writes movies about the 13th century; 13 centuries after what? If no one has ever believed in God or any god, then the life of Jesus becomes historically insignificant. Certainly not important enough to use the year of his birth as the starting point of the calender. [This is entirely based on opinion. While, no, religion doesn't exist, it cannot be stated that therefore they cannot use that calendar. Maybe, in their universe, Jesus, while not considered a religious figure, is revered as a great philosopher, hence the decision to base their calendar on his birth year. As no information exists in the movie about why they chose it, but an absence of information does not automatically make a plot hole. At best, this is a question. It's certainly not strong enough to be a mistake.]