Best drama movie continuity mistakes of 2003

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The Big Empty picture

Continuity mistake: As John first checks in at the Baker motel, the pen on the desk shifts between shots. It's on a chain and certainly would make some noise if either character had moved it. (00:10:45)

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Assisted Living picture

Continuity mistake: During the coverage of a bingo game, the caller said B-8. Immediately the shot changed to a player covering N-38.

Wayne C.

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The Undefeated picture

Continuity mistake: When Lex goes back to Queens, he meets up with an old friend who is driving his car. The camera angles from the front show him standing with his hands at his sides, but the camera angles from the back show his left hand on the car. Happens about 3 times during the entire scene.

MCKD

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Continuity mistake: When Colm Meaney and Colin Farrell have the shoot-out right at the end, the material filmed changes between then and when the director is viewing it at the end. First, Farrell shoots Meaney, then the camera goes to white and two more gun-shots go off. Then, when he is watching it later, Farrell pulls the gun from his pocket and the director shoots him straight away. Then when he rewinds it, it shows Colin Farrell pull his gun, the camera man look to the bonnett of the car where the gun is, then bring it up and shoot him.

SexyIrishLeprechaun

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21 grams picture

Continuity mistake: When Paul is introduced at the hospital, in one shot he thinks, "What am I doing in this precorpse club?" and turns his head to his left. In the next shot, he is turned to the right, and the shot after shows him turning from his left to his right. (00:04:45)

Phoenix

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It Runs in the Family picture

Continuity mistake: The runaway girl that is in Rory Culkin's class has a nose ring in her left nostril in the beginning of the movie and in her right nostril all the way through the rest of the movie.

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Cold Creek Manor picture

Continuity mistake: When Juliet Luis is cleaning the windshield in the beginning of the movie, she moves to the passenger side and wets the window. The next shot she is talking to Sharon Stone and the windshield is dry.

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How to Deal picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene when Halley just left from her counselor's office, Macon was going to go after her but the counselor stopped him. Then he was doing something with his hands and he had a pen. In the next shot, he sort of taps the wall, and the pen is gone.

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The Shape of Things picture

Continuity mistake: After they have sex for the first time, Adam and Evelyn are on the floor and she tells him to smile into the camera that was filming them making love. The camera however, is pointed right at them on the floor, not on the bed where the scene started and they had the actual sex. (00:32:20)

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Veronica Guerin picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Veronica is sitting at her computer working and her husband is upset with her, she disconnects her headphones from the stereo, pulls them off, and puts them around her neck. When she stands up and starts dancing to the music, they're on her head and she pulls them off again.

Ingabritzen

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Luther picture

Continuity mistake: When Luther arrives at the monastery for his questioning, he arrives at night, and it is raining very hard. When he is ushered into the room with his mentor, Luther is still wet from the rain, but it is sunny outside the window.

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Blackball picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene after the half-time break in the International Tournement, Cliff Starkey has been to the sea to retrieve his "English Plasic and Asda bag" Bowls and starts playing with these again to improve his game and his luck. When we then see lots of shots of the UK Bowls smashing the Aussie bowls out of the way, (as we make a storming fightback) they are back to the blue ones again. Then it cuts back to the last few ends and he has the black plastic back.

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The Human Stain picture

Continuity mistake: When Anthony Hopkins first gives Nicole Kidman a ride to her place, it is raining outside. When he gets out of the car to go inside, the entire windshield is dry and clean as a whistle, even the area that is outside the reach of the wiperblades.

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Open Range picture

Continuity mistake: When Boss and Charlie are crossing the flooded main street (before rescuing the dog), Boss is holding his shotgun pointing up into the rain in one shot, then in the next shot (from a different angle), it's pointing down, then up again and so on.

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Elephant picture

Continuity mistake: When Alex walks forward in the cafeteria with his notepad, he stops by the cafeteria tills. In one shot, you see a student going up to pay for their lunch. But it then cuts, and the student has vanished.

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1-Ichi picture

Continuity mistake: When young Ichi is tied up, having baseballs hurled at him, when the last ball is thrown, you can see he puts his arms up to protect himself, but in the next shot they are down again.

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Gang of Roses picture

Continuity mistake: As the girls ride in to town to avenge Kim, there is a deputy in a faded red shirt on a second-floor balcony. The first time he gets shot, he does a flip onto the street. The second time he gets shot, he goes over backwards.

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Shattered Glass picture

Continuity mistake: As Michael leaves after being fired and Chuck returns to the office, the clocks in the newsroom read drastically different times in each shot, even going backward through time at one point.

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The Mother picture

Continuity mistake: After May and Darren make love he gets up and puts his pants on. We see him closing his belt, but in the next shot where his pants are visible the belt is open again. (01:09:40)

NancyFelix

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Continuity mistake: When they first get into the jeep with the German flag attached to the hood it does not have chains on the front right tire, later it does.

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