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Corrected entry: Charlie and Muriel call the Lotto office and are told that a bowling team took "about $9 million" out of the jackpot. This is impossible. They would have to get the same amount as Charlie and Muriel. While it is possible (but VERY unlikely) that the bowling team bought multiple tickets with the same exact numbers and therefore would get a bigger share, they still could not have gotten $9 million. Since Charlie only bought one ticket, even if the team bought more than one ticket, they would have to get some multiple of $4 million.

Correction: Another possibility, Charlie's ticket was lump sum while the bowling team got annual payments - you (eventually) get around 2x the amount depending on how much annuities are paying at the time.

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Corrected entry: After Lelaina gets in the fight with Troy, Vicki says that her and Lelaina need to go for a walk, and they leave without telling anyone where they are going. They end up going to a diner, where Lelaina mysteriously gets a phone call from her boyfriend, who's out of state. The phone call was made to the diner's personal phone and not to a cell phone. How did her boyfriend know where she was going to be? And even if he knew she was going to be at the diner it's not like he would have had the number anyways, being that he is out of state.

Correction: I think this might be the diner we see Troy and Lelaina in during the film, so it's probably a regular hangout for them; Michael probably called the house and (most likely) Sammy told him to try the diner (Sammy would have a local phone book).

Xofer

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Corrected entry: In the movie Virgil and Morgan Earp are shot the same evening. Actually, Virgil was shot about three months before Morgan.

Correction: It is artistic license to change historical facts in movies. This isn't a documentary, so the filmmakers can change real events to suit the movie's storyline.

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Corrected entry: During the final scene, when the outside of St. Paul's Cathedral is shown, the people are gathered around the statue of Queen Victoria, George III's grand-daughter, who was only born around 30 years later.

Correction: In front of St Paul's stands a statue of Queen Anne (r. 1702-1714), set up to celebrate the completion of the rebuilding of the cathedral within her reign. The original statue, the work of Francis Bird, was completed in finest Italian marble (1712). It suffered so badly in the sulphurous atmosphere of eighteenth-century London that it had to be replaced by the present replica (in Italian statuary marble) in 1886.

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Corrected entry: When the cop shoots Cane's agent, the weapon fires 8 rounds. That's a standard 6 rounds weapon. (00:13:30)

Correction: There are two policemen firing at the agent. They fire eight shots between them.

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