Best movie continuity mistakes of 1996

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Alaska picture

Continuity mistake: When the girl is about to lower the boy down on the rope to save their dad, she loops the rope through the carribena, but she never actually does it up.

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Stealing Beauty picture

Continuity mistake: When Alex and Lucy are sitting outside on the step at night, as Lucy tells Alex about her old boyfriend, her hands go from being down on the floor, to on her knees, to back on the floor, then back on her knees between shots.

Hamster

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Continuity mistake: When Marcia and Gregg are making a playing card castle and Peter throws a ball, you see Jan walking in the corridor, then she has disappeared and you see her again near the horse statue.

Dr Wilson

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Ashe is burying his son, when they show his face as he's piling up the dirt there are no black lines on his forehead, yet in the next scene when they show him on his motorcycle, the black lines are back on his forehead.

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She's The One picture She's The One mistake picture

Continuity mistake: While Francis is sitting on his bed "getting his work done", he appears to be holding a magazine. When it changes to a frontal shot he is holding a legal pad. (00:09:00)

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Extreme Measures picture

Continuity mistake: When Hugh Grant first goes underground and is interrogated by the "Mole" people, his arms are held behind his back and the hair on his forehead changes between shots. His hair appears combed back in several shots and some wisps hanging down in others. They alternate back and forth between shots.

Randy DeShong

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Continuity mistake: At the end of the movie, when Jimmy Muir is playing for Sheffield United against Manchester United, Annie and Ken stand up to cheer Jimmy on at what looks like a packed stadium. However, when they stand up, you can see dozens of empty seats behind them.

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The Quest picture

Continuity mistake: When the Siamese fighter (Chris's old friend) is defeated by the Mongolian fighter, Chris wipes the blood from his friend onto the Mongolian fighter. When he wipes the Mongolian, no blood is there. The blood does not appear on the Mongolian until Chris is walking off.

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James and the Giant Peach picture

Continuity mistake: Throughout the flight with the seagulls attached to the peach stem, the length of the peach stem gets shorter and then longer and then shorter again.

rabid anarchist

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Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love picture

Continuity mistake: Upset with her husband's growing obsession with his mistress Maya, Tara the Queen attempts to commit suicide by slicing her wrists while bathing. She makes deep cuts in both wrists. Maya rescues Tara the Queen when she enters the Queen's chambers. Two scenes later, Tara the Queen attends the execution of Maya's lover. Magically, Tara's arms are unbandaged and unscarred. The execution took place only days after her attempted suicide.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Quasimodo is reciting his alphabet to Frollo, we see Frollo pick up his goblet for a drink when he says "D?" By "E?", he still has the goblet in his hand. After saying "F?" he raises the goblet and takes a drink. When the camera pans back to Quasimodo saying "Festival", the goblet is in clear sight even when we hear Frollo spit out his drink.

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Emma picture Emma mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Emma and Mr Knightley kiss for the first time near the end, they are both tilting their heads to the right when the camera angle is from Emma's perspective. Then, the instant the camera changes to Mr Knightley's perspective, they are suddenly tilting their heads to the left.

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The Pillow Book picture

Continuity mistake: In the opening scene, the young girl has Japanese characters painted on her face. They differ slightly between shots - e.g. the square between her eyebrows moves significantly. (00:03:20)

jle

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Head Above Water picture

Continuity mistake: When Cameron Diaz is telling her husband about Kent, there is a boat outside the window. The boat moves in a weird way. It goes from one side to the other in the same camera angle.

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Foxfire picture

Continuity mistake: When the girls kidnap Goldie's dad they walk out of his house and to the Jaguar with keys in hand. The shot gradually switches to an overhead shot as they walk to the car. But even before they get in, exhaust can be seen coming out from the Jaguar indicating it is already running. After they get in, the sound of Maddie starting the car can be heard, even though it was already obviously running.

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Muppet Treasure Island picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Long John Silver comes into the Captain's quarters to offer them all some brandy to toast the voyage, watch the glasses on his trolley. When he wheels the trolley in, all the glasses are on the right hand side. When he wheels it out (nobody but Fozzie having drunk any brandy), all the glasses are on the left hand side.

Andy

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The Chamber picture

Continuity mistake: When Lee goes to see her father, she gets up to leave and Cahill has his cigarette in the left side of his mouth, when the scene cuts to Lee leaving it is in the right side of his mouth. When they do the close-up it is back in the left side of his mouth.

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