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Continuity mistake: During the demonstration with the billiard balls as 'Indians', the balls are placed differently on the table depending on the take. (00:37:00)

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Continuity mistake: At the start Edgar smashes his car up and kicks his window out and jumps out leaving a bit of glass in the window frame. However after the camera changes, the 2 bits of glass have disappeared. (00:01:05)

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Continuity mistake: When the male elder is lying on the ground after jumping off the cliff, there is nothing on the ground around his head. When he realises that his leg has broken off and the HÃ¥rgas start wailing, there is an additional shot included in the Director's Cut where a rock has suddenly appeared beside the man's head. (Director's Cut). (01:11:40)

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Continuity mistake: When Holland shows the bartender the dollar bill in the shape of a shirt, he is smoking a cigarette before he takes the cigarette out of his mouth. Holland mentions to the bartender that he made it himself, with nothing in his mouth, but in the next shot, the cigarette is suddenly back. (00:09:45)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Murdock is in jail talking with Emma on the phones through the glass, he presses his fingers to hers, against the glass, & the glass shatters. Right when it is shattering & he pulls away, if you look very carefully you can see the reflection of his hand in an additional pane of glass that is still there! The next shot shows no glass as they kiss, but when the original glass breaks, there is still a pane of glass remaining, as evidenced by the reflection of his hand. (01:05:08)

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Continuity mistake: When Waldman is telling his wife Alice how disgusting her dog is, the way he holds his spoon keeps changing between cuts.

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Other mistake: After the third homicide, everyone gathers around the statuettes of the ten little Indians. Small problem, though. There are eleven little Indians. (00:42:20)

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Continuity mistake: After Willis rescues the people, he's at breakfast with his son and wife. He slides the newspaper to his son. Close-up on paper (beside orange juice) shows "Bold" typestyle on story slug. Camera pans up to Willis, cuts to son, cut back to newspaper. Suddenly typestyle is italicised (noticeable on "f" in "found"). (01:34:30)

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Continuity mistake: During Buffalo Bob's first appearance, he's holding a rake with both hands. In the next shot, he's holding it with just one hand.

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Continuity mistake: Just as Sook-Hee finishes saying goodbye, Kutan starts saying she should be the one going instead of her. It then cuts to a different angle where Sook-Hee is shown reaching her hand out to brush her hair. At the start of the shot, Sook-Hee's hand is inches away from Kutan's hair and would have been visible in the previous shot. (00:02:54)

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Continuity mistake: Anna brings Semyon only copies of the original diary. The sheets are held together by handbag clips, which are closed in the close-ups, and open in the views from her angle. (00:23:00)

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Visible crew/equipment: When the Jeep is flipping, in one shot, the door flies open and reveals that Ace is wearing jeans. Ace doesn't wear jeans throughout the whole movie showing that this is a stunt double. When the car falls in the parking spot, Greenwall seen through the door is very obviously a dummy.

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Continuity mistake: When Bobby is begging his mother to let him work for Ted Brautigan, she says yes and fully ties the apron around her waist. However in the next shot, she is shown just putting the apron around her waist and tying it again. (00:21:50)

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Visible crew/equipment: When the Nihilists are ordering food at the restaurant, you can see the reflection of the camera and cameraman in the window behind them. Watch as the scene pans around and you can see the camera and the cameraman move as well. Could the person behind the camera be Roger Deakins? (01:34:20)

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Continuity mistake: Velma reluctantly agrees to Daphne's idea to check out of the mysterious locker. She says "We'll come up with something." Right part of the frame, and in the background there's an extra (black kid with a plaid white shirt) that is simultaneously also eating at the table in the reverse shot. (00:31:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Shawn first holds up the jerky to distract the guard dog, he's holding the torch in his right hand and the bag of jerky in his left. We cut to a wider shot and the items have instantly switched hands. (00:26:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Tommy Tong breaks Jarrel's stick, the broken part of the stick differs between shots. (00:33:40)

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Continuity mistake: When Casey and Delilah watch Nurse Harper get infected by Coach Willis from inside a closet, the closet's shutter windows switch from closed to open between shots.

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Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie when Cooper and the kids arrive to the lake after they took the control of the drone, Murph steps out of the truck and leaves the door open, but in the next shot the door is closed and it's sure that in the entire scene there's no sound of a car door getting closed.

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