Corrected entry: In the scene where Meg Ryan is in Kevin Kline's bedroom and they are looking at his school project, the lavender is in a transparent bottle. Later in the same scene Meg Ryan is tasting the wine and says "from the brown bottle - lavender".
Corrected entry: Derek Bond is supposedly married in this movie. Someone would have had to notice that Kevin Franklin wasn't wearing a wedding ring.
Correction: Just because someone doesn't wear a wedding ring, doesn't mean they aren't married. My dad doesn't wear one, but he is married.
Corrected entry: When we first see Delroy Lindo's house, when Yayo Portillo shows up there, there are giggling girls in the pool below. When Lindo shoots Yayo and he goes over the edge of the balcony by the pool, there are no screams or exclamations from the girls.
Correction: There are several minutes from the time the camera pans up from the swimming pool to the time Yayo goes over the railing. The girls presumably went inside in that time.
Corrected entry: At one point in the film a Hummer pulls up quickly outside the main hospital. So quickly in fact it bumps into an old lady in the crowd knocking her flying.
Correction: Not a mistake, as this can happen in real life. Unintentional in the movie, perhaps, but still possible.
Corrected entry: When Billy is calling Danny McGrath closer towards the end of the movie, you can hear the ringer ringing before he is done dialing.
Correction: The ringing you are presumably referring to isn't actually the ringing coming from the phone but the start of the song that plays throughout the scene, which is Telephone Line by the Electric light orchestra. Listen to the song if you don't believe me.
Corrected entry: When the Aragons were in danger of losing their crop to cold weather, they lit fires between the rows of grapevines and fan the warmed air between the plants. In several shots the flames and smoke get very close to the vines, with no harm to the plants. However, when Alberto accidentally starts the fire that ruins their farm, watch how the grapevines go up in flames - it's almost laughable how quickly they ignite. In one of the long shots of the vineyard during the fire it appears that some of the vines spontaneously combust.
Correction: While the fire in the vineyard did spread unrealistically quickly at times, this is not an error. When fires were lit to save the crop from frost, it was early spring with all the plants green and fruitful. It would be very difficult to set fire to these green vines. When the inferno occurred, it was the end of the season when they vineyard was barren and dried out. It is very possible for a fire to spread easily in plants in this condition.
Corrected entry: When they all leave Bangor airport after they find it is deserted, they have to manually move a stairwell to the plane to all get on board, once they are all in, the plane taxis off. How did they manage to move the stairs away from the plane after getting in? They would have had to move the stairs away otherwise the wings would have collided with the stairs. Planes need a truck to back up.
Correction: Large aircraft (weighing more than 12,500 lb) almost always have the ability to reverse thrust. The aircraft used in the movie is a Lockheed L-1011 Tri-star; this plane has reverse thrust capability.
Corrected entry: When Emma T is writing at the table she is writing with her left hand. However this is a historical error. At the time of this films setting writing with your left had would be a sign of the devil and beaten out of you.
Correction: While the popular belief is that left-handers were possessed by the Devil, there's no indication that EVERYBODY thought this. It's entirely possible, and quite likely, that the Dashwoods felt that Elinor should learn to write with her "smart" hand. The girls are obviously educated, and really no one except family and close servants would ever see her write anything anyway.
Corrected entry: After Lucy jumps off the platform to save Peter and the train finally arrives, the shot from above shows them under the edge of the train, as if they are being crushed. The next shot from the side shows them safely clear of the train but reveals that there is no space under the train for them to have survived as the train supposedly passed over them.
Correction: The train does hide them during the high shot, but it's not possible to determine how much space there is or isn't based on these shots.
Corrected entry: In Wallace's house you can see all the sheep, and there are about a hundred at least. There are also about this many when they are in the fields. In all the other scenes, including in the truck and when they all stand up on the motorcycle, there are only about 50 or so.
Correction: There aren't that many when Gromit breaks out of prison, nor when they are in the warehouse at the end. The whole point of the sheep in the field is that they weren't all among Wallace's team, or else Preston wouldn't have known they'd be there when he went rustling. Also, we don't know that Preston successfully kidnapped all the sheep from that field, some may have escaped. It seems that Wallace hand picked his 'Sheep Snatch Squad' from among the best of those at his home, and then having broken Gromit out of prison they acquired a few extra members.
Corrected entry: When Somerset and Mills go to the safety house to show the lawyer's wife the pictures of the crime scene, Mills arrives there completely wet, but Somerset is absolutely dry. Both of them got there walking.
Correction: Is it beyond belief that Somerset used an umbrella?
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie Johnny goes to his meeting to get the 320Gb stored in his brain. Those 320Gb are stored in a disk the size of a mini-CD. So this has to be a new type of disk with about 100 times more the capacity of a recordable DVD. However at the end of the movie J-Bone goes live and tells the world to get their VCRs ready because the got the cure for the NAS. If there were such a disk with the capability of storing 320Gb why do they still use VCRs? Shouldn't there be some kind of DVD-Recorder using those disks?
Correction: Even people today still use the phrase "get your VCRs ready" to indicate that something worth noticing is about to happen. It is a popular cultural phrase.
Corrected entry: Near to the end of the film, Dr Chafee arrives to the barn carrying a single bomb hidden inside a suitcase. The bomb finally explodes, however, in the shot from the outside there are three sequential explosions on different parts of the barn.
Correction: So? Once the initial explosion from the suitcase is set off, anything else flammable or combustible will ignite or explode when the fire reaches it. Things such as kerosene, gasoline, liquid fertilizer.....all items that would be normal to store in a barn.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Douglas' daughter helps him tie his bow tie before the state dinner, he calls her something Suvy insted of Lucy.
Correction: He calls her 'Sweetie' not 'Suvy'.
Corrected entry: In some scenes in the background, the cars have Nova Scotia licence plates where it was filmed... not Maine, where it supposedly took place.
Correction: Having lived in that part of Maine all my life; that's not really all that out of the question. I've seen days where there were more Canadian/out of state vehicles in town than Maine ones.
Corrected entry: During the pilot training segment, Lt. Glenn informs the men that he is the only aviator with combat experience, however, Major Joy is wearing a purple heart, which is awarded only for a blood-drawing injury received during combat.
Correction: He is the only black aviator with combat experience.
Corrected entry: At the beginning of Chapter 17 a video backed by music starts of Pauley Shore trying to prove that Carl Wayne Bishop is not guilty. It is taking so long that fellow juror Nathan rips up his court side tickets for the lakers into pieces. In Chapter 20 while trying to prove a point, Pauley Shore says to arrest Nathan because he said he killed for those tickets. Nathan has the laker tickets in his pocket which were ripped up in an earlier scene, now they are in tact.
Correction: It is not the same pair of tickets. They are different tickets for a different game.
Corrected entry: In the scene immediately after Gena Davis receives a wound, she drinks some whiskey, or rum, and then pours some of the drink on her wound as an antiseptic. The understanding of germs and infection didn't occur until Pasteur's discoveries in the mid 1800's, well after the time period of this film.
Correction: True however they did understand keeping a wound clean. It was well known that the wadding from a pistol shot many times carried with the ball into the wound especially if done at close range. Festering would occur and that is why they later wished to cauterize it.
Corrected entry: Mary MacGregor (Rob's wife) is the real name of Jessica Lange, the actress who portrayed her.
Correction: No it's not, her birth name is Jessica Phyllis Lange.
Corrected entry: In the beginning, in India, Sara's dad is telling her how she is going to a school in New York. If you watch, she is holding a doll that she receives later in the film when she first goes into her room. She acts as though she has not seen it before, even though she has.
Correction: It's not the same doll. The doll she is holding has short, straight hair, no hat, and is made of a shiny porcelain. When she receives the Emily doll later on, the doll has long curly hair, a hat, and is not shiny.
Correction: She says ‘from the ground' bottle, not ‘from the brown' bottle. He had just explained everything is from the air and the ground.