Continuity mistake: In the scene where Faye and T.B. Player burst into the appliance store to announce the song was on the radio, watch the blue car behind them. It moves forward twice, depending on the camera shot.
Kent Blanch
That Thing You Do (1996)
1 continuity mistake
Directed by: Tom Hanks
Starring: Ethan Embry, Johnathon Schaech, Liv Tyler, Steve Zahn, Tom Everett Scott
Factual error: When the boys go to the radio show in CA, the DJ says to the listeners to keep Saturday and Sunday, August 20th and 21st [1964] open. The 20th and 21st of August 1964 were a Thursday and a Friday.
ChiChiMr. White: You guys look great in gold, have I told you that?
Trivia: Throughout the entire movie, no one ever says the bass player's name. Even in the credits, he is listed as T.B. Player and The Bass Player.
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