Dante's Peak

Continuity mistake: When they are driving up the mountain to get to her kids, they cross a river and they get hit on the passenger side of the truck shattering the window, but later when they show them going up the mountain there is a new window there.

Continuity mistake: Mr. Custer has an on and off problem with his glasses when registering Harry Dalton. When seen full face, his glasses are in his shirt pocket--yet, when seen from the back, he has his glasses on!

Continuity mistake: Just after the helicopter crashes, check out the two full-view shots of the vehicle that show the top running lights. Of the three that are left, the middle one has been knocked crooked. After these two shots, the lights are all perfectly aligned again.

Continuity mistake: Near the start of the movie, during the violent eruption when the major characters have quickly loaded their gear into the truck and are trying to escape, the shot changes back and forth from looking into the cabin of the truck from the front and then looking forward out through the windscreen. The windscreen wipers are running at very different speeds. From inside, they run very fast (probably so you can see out through the mud) and very slowly from outside (probably to accentuate the mud etc).

Neil Glassford

Continuity mistake: When Harry, Rachel, and the kids drive into the mine at the end of the movie, there are already tire tracks there before them, despite plenty of ash having fallen to cover tracks made earlier. Who would have been going in or out of the mine before that?

Continuity mistake: When Harry and Rachel are making their way back to Rachel's house after the volcano's initial explosion we see them go down an alley to avoid all the traffic. As they move down the alley we see a pile of bricks fall from a roof and hit the front of the truck and window which causes large cracks in the glass on the passenger side. However, immediately after this we see the car and in all shots from the outside of the vehicle the cracks are no longer visible.

Scrappy

Continuity mistake: Just as Grandma jumps out of the boat you see Harry move towards her. You can see (and hear) his foot hit the bottom of the boat, when just before, it showed the boat almost completely full of acid.

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Suggested correction: His pant leg to mid upper shin shows it's soaked.

Continuity mistake: The watch of one of the councilmen shows 1.40. (the stubby one in the white shirt, the one that tries to get the investor to invest in the city). Some 18 seconds later it shows 1.45.

Continuity mistake: When they get in the boat to cross the lake, they notice dead fish floating on top of the water. On the other side of the lake, there are no dead fish.

Continuity mistake: After Terry falls in the crater, watch Harry climbing down to him. Harry is almost down, then the scene flashes to him at the top of the rim again, and he makes his way down a second time.

Revealing mistake: After Dante's Peak explodes for the final time, the pyroclastic cloud rolls down the mountain toward the town. Harry shouts "Don't look back, kids, don't look back." and then we are shown a wide shot of the truck zooming down the ash-choked streets. Unfortunately, it's painfully obvious that this is either a miniature or CGI shot, because the truck isn't leaving any tracks behind it or trailing any clouds of ash despite its high speed. (01:28:19)

Phil C.

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Harry Dalton: My 9th grade science teacher always said that if you put a frog in boiling hot water, it would jump out. But put it in cold water, and heat it up gradually, it would slowly boil to death.
Nancy: What's that Harry? Your recipe for frog soup?
Harry Dalton: It's my recipe for a disaster.

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Trivia: The ‘volcanic ash' you see in this movie is actually finely shredded newspapers.

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Question: How come Graham was able to drive a car up to Ruth's house but couldn't for the life of him figure out how a telephone worked? When it was still ringing he said "Hello" thinking she'd answered.

Answer: He's young and he and his sister are alone. He's worried about his Grandma and she's not answering the phone. He's saying hello because he desperately wants her to answer so he knows she's OK. He feels helpless just letting the phone ring.

The_Iceman

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