Plot hole: When Laura, alone in the girls' room, hears the noises in the attic, she runs to get Rosemary. Problem is: Horace is the one who makes the noises and when Laura finds Rosemary, Horace is in the bar - not downstairs, making noises as he should be.
kh1616
3rd Oct 2013
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
1st Oct 2013
Sphere (1998)
Revealing mistake: When there's a fire, Beth is waving her fire extinguishers around, but there's nothing coming out.
1st Oct 2013
Sphere (1998)
Continuity mistake: After Harry wakes up after he went into the sphere, he is very hungry, but as he eats, one second he has bacon in his hand, and the next second, no bacon, same with the scrambled eggs: one second, it's on his fork, and the next second, it's gone.
1st Oct 2013
The Statement (2003)
Character mistake: When Michael Caine has to leave in a hurry, he has to leave his belongings behind - two suitcases. When the police arrive, the lead cop tells the lower cop to "take everything", but he doesn't; he only takes 1 suitcase, not 2.
1st Oct 2013
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Other mistake: When Malcolm is found dead with an arrow in his chest, the arrow is pointing down at an angle, which means it came from someone high up, but, later, we find out it came from someone of around the same height and standing on the ground, not high up on a ladder, or on a rooftop, which it should be, to get that angle.
29th Sep 2013
The Statement (2003)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning, The Statement is being typed on a manual typewriter and the name Pierre Brossard is underlined except for the letter P. The next time we see The Statement, the letter P is now underlined. There is only one copy.
24th Sep 2013
Darkman (1990)
Continuity mistake: Halfway through the film, Frances and Colin are in Colin's office. Colin has a glass of brandy in his hand, but when the phone rings, the glass is gone.
24th Sep 2013
Brief Encounter (1945)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning, the snobby woman who runs the refreshment room at the train station is drying a tall glass with a tea towel, but a second after she puts it down, it's in her hands again, being dried again with the tea towel.
24th Sep 2013
Alien 3 (1992)
Continuity mistake: Right at the beginning, Ripley has a bloodshot eye and a blown pupil, but they both vanish far too quickly; it takes lots of days, certainly not hours or one day.
24th Sep 2013
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Factual error: When Rosemary finds Mr Teed's dead body, the kettle is boiling. It's the type that will keep boiling until someone turns off the stove or takes it off the heat; neither of these things happen, and yet, before the scene is finished, the kettle stops making that boiling sound.
20th Sep 2013
The Omen (1976)
Continuity mistake: When the Thornes go to church for a wedding, the man who opens their door is wearing a hat, but when Damian starts to act up, the man is no longer wearing his hat.
20th Sep 2013
The Omen (1976)
Character mistake: When the housekeeper shows the new nanny, Mrs Baylock, where to go, she says,"Round that corner to the right and it's the door facing you." So what does the nanny do? She turns left.
20th Sep 2013
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Other mistake: At the very end, Sherry's wrist is not red, as it should be, after being rammed in the desk drawer by Laura, when she went to get her gun.
15th Sep 2013
Flight (2012)
Continuity mistake: When Whip wakes up in hospital, his right eye is partially bloodshot, but seconds later the blood is gone.
15th Sep 2013
Rebecca (1940)
Character mistake: In the beginning of the film, in the foyer of the hotel, Mrs Van Hopper takes a sip of coffee and declares it "stone cold." Then she sees Max De Winter and offers him coffee, but all she asks the girl to get from a waiter is another cup, when what they need is another cup and a fresh pot of hot coffee.
9th Sep 2013
Imagine Me & You (2005)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning, the bride's mother puts a clip in her younger daughter's hair, but, in the next shot, the clip is gone.
9th Sep 2013
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Revealing mistake: When the lawnmower man crashes his lawnmower, his right leg has some sort of protection on it; it can be seen by the cut of his pants.
9th Sep 2013
Arbitrage (2012)
Continuity mistake: Three-quarters into the film, Richard Gere is in the main bedroom, alone. He picks up the phone, makes a call, then doesn't put the phone in the cradle, but when he turns, the phone is in the cradle, and he picks it up to make another call.
9th Sep 2013
Arbitrage (2012)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the film, Richard Gere, with the help of his grandchildren, blows out the candles on his birthday cake. 3 candles are still lit, then suddenly extinguished.
30th Aug 2013
Mother (1996)
Other mistake: In the beginning, Albert Brooks and Lisa Kudrow are eating dinner at a restaurant and Albert mentions his books, plural, but then he says book, singular. All the way he's said book, so what is it - books or book?
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