The top mistakes in Mystic River http://www.moviemistakes.com/film3668 en Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:57:06 +0000 41339 In the scene at the beginning of the movie as the 3 youths walk up the street, you can see current MA license plates, although the action should have taken place many years earlier. 80903 Before we first see the marching band, and Kevin Bacon finds out what his daughter's name is, there is shot looking at him in his car and he drives off screen. As the car goes out of the shot to the left, check out the reflection of the camera man in the rear driver's side window. 115908 When Sean Penn is being interrogated by the cops, his coffee mug is yellow in the wall angle, and white in the rest of the shots. 42863 When Penn is drinking whiskey, he puts the bottle on the table, with no hull, later it has a hull and then it's again with no hull. 43184 In the first scene the boys are playing street hockey using sticks that have plastic blades made with holes in them for better aerodynamics. These blades were not available in the mid-70's. We know this scene is taking place in the mid-70's because Dave tells his son he was in high school from 1978-82. The scene takes place when Dave is 11, too young to have been in high school.