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Misery (1990) - 32 mistakes

Directed by Rob Reiner, starring James Caan, Kathy Bates (add more)

Genres: Drama, Thriller

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Continuity: When Buster puts the post-it note on the board, it moves about between shots.

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Deliberate "mistake": Kathy Bates gives James Caan his Noveril a number of times, but one particular time Kathy gives him his Noveril and leaves the room. When the camera shows James Caan holding the capsules between his thumbs and forefingers, it is apparent that they are not James Caan's hands in this shot.

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Continuity: When Paul hops out of bed after Annie yells at him for killing Misery, you can see his legs move in the braces several times, even though they should be immobile.

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Continuity: In the scene where Kathy Bates shoots the sheriff at the top of the stairs, his body collapses and falls on the steps. However, in the next shot, the body disappears.

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Continuity: When Annie Wilkes is shaving Paul Sheldon, when she is almost done she stops shaving and talks to him about something briefly. Before she stops talking there is still some shaving cream under his nose. Then when the camera goes back to Sheldon, after she's done talking, there is no shaving cream under his nose.

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Continuity: When the two main characters are having dinner together, the food on the plates varies in the amount that is eaten - a lot is gone, and then the original amount of food is back again. A bun on the table also goes through this obvious splicing of different takes, and moves around the table, seemingly unaided.

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Continuity: When Sheldon has knocked Annie out the first time you see a view of the room. But the ash is in a neat pile and not spread out as it would have been after he grabbed some of it and stuffed it in her mouth.

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Continuity: After Paul burns the manuscript on the grill, Annie begins to take it our of the room after pouring water on it. In the shot in the room, the grill is smoking, but in the shot from the doorway, the papers have suddenly stopped smoking and there is no smoke anywhere else in the room.

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Continuity: When it starts to snow, and Paul puts the windshield wipers on, the rate that they swing differs between shots.

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Continuity: In the scene where Paul falls down the basement stairs we see a shot with a case of "Canadian" beer behind his head. In another shot the case is covered up with a blanket.

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Continuity: The lighter fluid flips around before James Caan picks it up.

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Continuity: When Paul adventures throughout the house (and when Buster, The Sheriff, visits), the house looks very large as they travel within it (the large bedrooms, large upstairs, large dining room, etc.). However, when they show the outside of the house there is no possible way that all of those rooms and that space can fit into that tiny mountain home that they show the outside of.

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