Bruce Almighty

Bruce Almighty (2003)

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Corrected entry: When Bruce says he's Clint Eastwood and hides the handgun under his shirt, then goes to throw it in the garbage can, you can see that he's not holding a gun, but a Channel 7 news microphone. (00:32:10)

rainbowtrees

Correction: That's the joke. First he says he's Clint Eastwood, so he has a gun. Then he panics and says he's Bruce Nolan, therefore it becomes the microphone from his TV station.

Greg Dwyer

Corrected entry: When God tells Bruce the two rules he says Bruce can't tell anyone he's "God" and he can't "mess with free will" but by telling Bruce himself what he can't do just by explaining the rules God himself is messing with Bruce's free will. So by God's own reasoning he's breaking his own rules.

jbrbbt

Correction: The rules are for Bruce, not God. But the free will thing could just be a limitation of God's powers, not a "rule". If I tell you that you can't lift a mountain, I'm not messing with your free will, just stating a fact. And/or just telling Bruce he can't tell anyone he's God isn't about free will, simply an "actions have consequences" thing. If he breaks the rules he'd lose his powers or similar. I mean all of us have free will, but if we exercise that in a harmful way then we go to jail or similar. That's not "messing with our free will", just natural limitations.

Correction: If your parents tell you to do your homework, it's not violating your free will, because you still make the choice of whether or not you do as you're told. If they use supernatural powers to mind control you and literally force you to do it, now they've violated your free will.

DragoTime

Corrected entry: During Bruce's first night as God, he 'lassoes' the moon and drags it closer to create a more romantic view. God limited Bruce's power to only affect a section of downtown Buffalo because God felt that the entire world would be too much for Bruce to handle. So how is Bruce able to change the moon's orbit and create a major disaster on the other side of the world?

MoonMan

Correction: Actually, God said he was only giving Bruce responsibility over the PRAYERS in that area, as opposed to all of the prayers in the whole world. Nothing was said about affecting other objects or people.

Corrected entry: When Bruce's boss buys his lunch from a man in an apron, telling him it's "An exellent choice," this is a reference to the movie "I am Sam," where the protagonist had a similar appearance and used that same phrase over and over.

Correction: Somebody selling food wearing an apron is hardly an unusual choice of attire and "an excellent choice" would similarly be a common phrase in the circumstances. Without citation that this is an intentional nod by the filmmakers to "I Am Sam", this falls into the realm of pure coincidence, which invalidates it as trivia.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: In the scene where Grace leaves Bruce stranded at the party, he begins walking beside a lake, and his clothes are soaking wet before it starts to rain.

Correction: His clothes are soaking wet because he caused it to rain in the party to make everyone leave. He sat on the couch and got soaked, then left.

Correction: In "The Truman Show", Meryl was advertising 'MoCocoa' hot chocolate. In Bruce almighty he gets 'Cafe de Colombia' coffee.

Corrected entry: When Bruce and God are on Mount Everest, God says "You've had my powers for a little over a week now...". Not only was Bruce only supposed to have the powers for one week anyway, but it is barely halfway through the film.

Correction: God didn't say Bruce would only have his powers for one week. The raincheck for helping him clean was the 7th at 7, not necessarily 7 days from then.

Correction: Nowhere in the film is it ever stated Bruce would only have his powers for a week.

DragoTime

Corrected entry: In the scene where Bruce is driving in his new ride, he isn't allowed to change free will, but he manages to make everyone pull over so he can drive straight.

Correction: He can control the cars to just move out of the way though. The drivers didn't have to be the ones to drive them.

wolfchild

Corrected entry: In the scene where Jim Carrey picks up the broken beeper, you can clearly see, on the back of the LCD screen, the metal contacts where the data ribbon should've been connected... but nothing was there, it was cut. In the next shot, the display works flawlessly which would've been impossible.

Correction: That's just the point - it's not impossible, it's an "act of god" and because of that reason the beeper still works even though the laws of electronics tells us other wise.

bessytheevilcow

Corrected entry: In the scene where Bruce is parting the tomato soup, before he starts the bowl is almost completely full, so when he does part the soup shouldn't some of it have spilled out?

Correction: He has the power of God, of course nothing spilled out. He was controlling it as not to bring too much attention to himself.

Stefanie

Corrected entry: It is claimed that Grace has a rare blood group, AB positive; however, while it is true that less than 5% of people have this blood group, it is not so much rare as it is useless, as a person with AB positive blood can receive blood from any other group, yet AB positive blood can only be given to people with the same blood type. This makes this blood pretty undesirable, and not valuable at all.

Correction: In fact, if people respond better when they receive their own blood type, the O- type should be the most desired. The type O- is the only one which must obligatorily receive of the same type, contrary to the type AB+ which can receive of any type.

Correction: While this is true, people respond much better when given their own blood type as opposed to a different, but still compatible type. This makes AB very desirable.

I have AB+, what the initial post says is true. When I go in to donate blood, the staff are much more interested in my plasma rather than my blood itself. AB+ plasma is a universal plasma donor.

Correction: AB is the universal plasma and all blood types can receive AB plasma, making it as valuable as O - blood.

Bishop73

Correction: A bra for a vehicle is the cover that protects the front of the car. This is a picture of a car bra: http://supercamerabagswall.blogspot.ca/2012/11/car-bra.html.

kristenlouise3

Corrected entry: In the scene where Bruce is getting Evan fired, right after Evan says "And my tiny little nipples went to France.", both cameramen lean inwards to stare at Evan, and we can see the text on the TelePrompTers. The left TelePrompTers, which Evan was reading from, says "little tiny nipples".

Correction: So Evan made a mistake, newsreaders do that all the time. It doesn't change the intent of the "news" and isn't a movie mistake.

tw_stuart

Corrected entry: Why should it take all day to download the prayers? Bruce has all of God's powers, yet he can't make his internet connection fast enough to download the millions of prayer requests in a split second.

Matty Blast

Correction: It simply does not occur to Bruce that he can speed things up. He is still hampered by his human brain and his habits, so he goes through daily activities like eating, driving a car instead of "teleporting", and waiting for downloads from the internet. It is the way he has done things for thirty-something years, it is not easy to shed such habits and thinking.

Twotall

Corrected entry: After Bruce's accident, we hear the ambulance personnel referring to a neck brace and a back board. Anyone with even the slightest EMS or medical background would call those items a C-collar and a long board.

Correction: Yes, and the scriptwriter probably thought that, since his world wide audience was probably not going to be composed solely of paramedics and ambulance drivers, he'd better use terms ordinary cinema goers would understand.

Corrected entry: After Bruce is hit by the truck and the paramedics are shocking him back to life, he is on wet ground. Factually, you cannot use a defibrillator on a wet surface or everyone around will be shocked. (01:25:45)

Correction: The defibrillator has two paddles. The current coming from one of them looks for the easiest way to earth and by far the easiest way is the second paddle. Secondly, it does not matter what voltage you apply to a wet surface, you cannot electrocute anyone standing on that surface unless some part of their body above the feet is grounded. You cannot be shocked if the voltage does not have a path through your body.

tw_stuart

Corrected entry: When Bruce gets out of his car when he shuts his coat in the door, he does not lock it because he is running late and the meeting has already started. When he gets sacked and the gang are running to beat him up, he messes with his keys as though trying to open the unlocked door.

Correction: He went to the Falls in-between.

Corrected entry: Jack Keller's nameplate on his desk (in the scene where Bruce is rehired) says 'Jack Baylor'.

Correction: That's because his name is Jack Baylor, not Jack Keller. Watch the credits and you'll see his name.

T Poston

Corrected entry: When Bruce arrives at work after being in the traffic jam he leaves the car window open. When he returns to the car after being fired the window is closed (and, therefore, can be smashed by the gang that beats him up). (00:08:40 - 00:18:15)

NancyFelix

Correction: Bruce went to the Maid of the Mist after the traffic jam, and he probably drove to get there. He would have had plenty of time to roll the window up.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Susan tries to seduce Bruce, Bruce tells her that he and Grace had a fight. Um, no they didn't. At that point, everything was fine between them. Sure, Grace was disappointed that Bruce didn't pop the question at their dinner, but there was no fight. Cut scene?

Correction: No they fought over the fact that he always is talking about himself.

Other mistake: Early in the film, Jim Carrey is watching TV during a sports segment. He is watching Channel 7, the station he works for. This clip they showed was of actual WKBW sports director John Murphy. The clip they showed was taken directly from a real WKBW newscast, with the authentic news set, and graphics. However, when they show a clip of Ch. 7 News later, there are completely different graphics, and a completely different news set, both made for the movie.

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Trivia: The original number used for God in the movie was 776-2323, with no area code. After the film was released, people in different areas using that number received calls from people wanting to talk to God. The number was changed to 555-0123 for the DVD release.

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Question: In the film they find Jimmy Hoffa's body, but who is he? I've never heard of him.

Answer: Hoffa was the powerful and controversial leader of the Teamsters Union from 1957 to 1971. Often alleged to have ties to organized crime, Hoffa was convicted of fraud and jury tampering in 1964 and served four years in prison before his sentence was commuted by President Nixon. In 1975, while trying to regain power in the union, Hoffa disappeared from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He was widely assumed to have been killed by the Mafia. His body was never found, and in 1983 he was declared legally dead. Many movies joke of this, because to this day, his body has not been recovered.

T Poston

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