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Pleasantville (1998) - 25 mistakes

Directed by Gary Ross, starring Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, Reese Witherspoon, Tobey Maguire, William H. Macy (add more)

Genres: Fantasy, Comedy, Drama

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Continuity: When the brother and sister are arguing, it is supposedly 6:30. because that is when the marathon starts. But watch when he flips past the preview channel - it is showing shows for the 1 to 2:30 slot.

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Factual error: You can see the 3 point line painted out on the basketball court, they never had 3 point lines in the 50s.

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Factual error: When Reese Witherspoon's character is sitting at the desk reading, there is a cheerleading trophy and the cheerleader on it is wearing a mini skirt, - they didn't have mini skirts on the cheerleading outfits then.

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Plot hole: When Bud's mom gets scared because she turned "coloured," Bud puts makeup on her to hide the colour. When he is done, she is entirely black and white again.  But how did he get the inside of her mouth, irises and edges of her eyes, and hair to change back to black and white?

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Audio problem: When Bud is yelling at his sister in the school hallway by her locker, she complains about girls not being happy in poodle skirts and sweater sets. When the camera's point of view switches, her mouth is still moving even though she's stopped talking.

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Continuity: In the scene where the angry people throw rocks through a painting of a naked woman on a store window, the first rock smashes right through the womans face. In the next two scenes, more rocks are thrown, but the womans face is again visible, and the first hole is above where it should be.

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Continuity: Near the end of the film when Toby is wiping tears from Joan Allen's face, the tissues loom large between them and then disappear in the next shot.

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Continuity: On the first day in Pleasantville, David and Jennifer walk past Mr Simpson's house and it is opposite an open area. After getting a date with Margaret, David runs across Mr Simpson's lawn and it is directly opposite David's house.

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Continuity: Just before the scene where the mob smashes the window we see a shot of the sky, which is in colour, the clouds are pink with blue sky, yet every other shot with the sky in the background in the following scene the sky is once again black and white.

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Continuity: The TV repair man is wearing a rather crumpled cap whose dents change several times during the scene in Jennifer's and David's living room.

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Continuity: When David and Jennifer fight over the remote control it flies off in a rather steep downward direction, but it hits the wall high up.

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Continuity: When David looks through the window down at his mother loading her car there is one shutter half down. Seen from outside all shutters are up.

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Revealing: The iron mark on Roy's shirt is obviously painted on.

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Continuity: In the first basketball scene, the coach says "Big game tomorrow." In the second basketball scene the next day, he says the game is next week.

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Continuity: After arriving in Pleasantville, Jennifer looks over at a calendar on a desk. When they are called to breakfast there is a wide shot of the room and the desk does not have the calendar on it.

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Continuity: When David and his friend are questioning each other on Pleasantville trivia, David is eating chips. There are continuity mistakes between the front and rear views of David - e.g. when they're asking about the name of the cat the rear view shows David eating but the front view shows him dipping a fry into ketchup.

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Continuity: In the scene in the gym where Skip misses the basket, you see a close shot of the coach standing still and putting his arm in front of one of the players to stop the kid from touching the rolling ball. It then cuts to a far shot, and you can see the coach walking, not near any of the players.

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Factual error: The flag on the fire engine has 50 stars on it. In 1958, the US had 48 states. (Alaska and Hawaii joined in Jan and Aug of 1959 respectively). NB. the flag shown outside the school earlier in the film is correct.

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Continuity: Bud goes into the kitchen, and sees Betty when she has turned color. When she is seen from the back, her hair is still in black and white. When you see her colored face, her hair is brown. Once she is made up to be black and white again, her hair is once again without color.

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Continuity: After getting the remote control with oomph, David and Jennifer stand in front of the TV to run it on - they can be seen reflected in the screen. There is then a closeup of the TV but David and Jennifer are no longer reflected in it.

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