Stupidity: When the police turn up the first time the mother lies to them to get them to go away but the burglars can't hear the conversation. She could have told them exactly what was happening and that she had to make it look like she'd got rid of them. She could have then smashed all the cameras and just let them in.
Danhit
Panic Room (2002)
1 stupidity
Directed by: David Fincher
Starring: Dwight Yoakam, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart
Factual error: After the intruders flood the panic room with propane, Jody Foster's character gets a lighter and ignites the propane causing it to burn along the ceiling. This would be impossible as propane is heavier than air and would sink to the floor rather than rise up to the ceiling. Lighting a flame in that room should have caused anyone in the room and on the floor to be engulfed in flames almost instantly.
Meg: Open the door so I can give her the shot.
Burnham: If we open the door you'll shoot us.
Meg: So give her the shot yourself.
Trivia: The shot of Meg turning on the security screens took 57 takes before director David Fincher was happy.
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