A Low Down Dirty Shame

Visible crew/equipment: When Angela and Shame are in a car chase from the bad dudes, Shame turns the jeep around 180 degrees and then drives over the bad guys' car. While the jeep is driving off the bad guys' car, you can clearly see the jeep driving off some kind of ramp set behind the car. You can just see them driving down it.

Continuity mistake: When Shane goes to visit Luis at the restaurant, each time the camera angle changes throughout the scene, Luis has his cigar in his mouth and then in his hand.

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Continuity mistake: When Shame points his gun to Luis when they are under the Skinhead meeting place, the camera angle from the front shows the gun resting on his forehead, but the camera angle from the rear show the gun resting on the side of his head. Happens twice during the scene.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Shame and Angela are escaping in the jeep, Shame drives over the top of the cab. When he backs up to ram the cab the first time, he rams the cab squarely in the back bumper. In the next shot, when he rams the cab again to push it over the hill, the cab is turned sideways, and he hits it on the door.

Continuity mistake: Shame gives Peaches a picture of Angela and you see Peaches holding the picture looking at it with her hand backwards. The camera angle changes and she's now holding the picture with her hand facing foward.

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Continuity mistake: When the cab lands at the drive-thru of the burger place, you can see that the roof of the cab does not show the same damage of the previous scene when Shame ran over it with the jeep.

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Audio problem: When Shame points both his guns to the 2 guys in the beginning of the movie, you hear both guns click, but you can see that they are already cocked.

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Continuity mistake: When Shame and Angela are arguing at her apartment, her arms go from being crossed to hanging at her sides as the camera angle changes. Happens about 3 times during the scene.

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Audio problem: After Shame leaves the police station, he is seen driving with his cell phone near his ear. You then hear his cell phone ring and him answering it. You then see him putting the cell phone down, but he's still talking to Peaches.

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Continuity mistake: After Sonny leaves, Shame is sitting on his desk talking to Peaches with a basketball under his arm. The camera angle changes and the ball is gone.

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Continuity mistake: When the skinheads are chasing Luis, Shame stops them and after getting Luis into more trouble with them, he's seen driving away from Luis and is about 10 feet in front of him. The camera angle changes and Luis is now only 3 feet behind the car.

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Visible crew/equipment: When Angela gets out of the cab, she puts her sunglasses on and as she turns her head to look around, you can see the camera crew in the reflection of her glasses.

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Continuity mistake: Shame gives Sonny a closed can of Coke and you see Sonny put it down on the desk. The camera angle changes and the coke can is now open.

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Continuity mistake: Angela is seen trying to take off Shame's shirt, but when Shame pushes her onto the bed, the 2 top buttons of the shirt are buttoned again.

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Continuity mistake: When Mendoza cuts one of his henchmen, Sonny is seen with his hands covering his face from the rear camera angle but when the camera angle changes to the front, his hands are near his chest. The camera angle changes to the rear and his hands are back to covering his face.

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Continuity mistake: When Shame bungee jumps in the mall, his feet switch from both being tied, to only one of them being tied throughout the scene as the camera angle changes.

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Continuity mistake: When Shame visits his cop friend at the station to get the old police file, as he's talking to the cop, the pen and papers on his desk move throughout the scene and nobody is touching them.

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Continuity mistake: When Peaches punches the soap opera guy, you see him falling down and his sunglasses land behind him. The camera angle changes to him getting up and his sunglasses are gone.

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