Continuity mistake: When Rita is being held by Barney in the cabin, she wipes the mud from her face with a white towel. In subsequent shots, her face goes from completely clean to streaked with smears of mud.
The Vanishing (1993)
Plot summary
Directed by: George Sluizer
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Sandra Bullock, Nancy Travis
Jeff and Diane are returning home from a road trip and stop at convenience store. Jeff waits for Diane by the car, but she doesn't return. A massive police hunt fails to find any trace of her. A grieving Jeff obsessively continues to search for her. Several years later he meets Rita and seemingly puts the past behind him and starts a new life. Barney, the psychopath who killed Diane, has been watching Jeff and his search efforts from afar. When Jeff no longer actively looks for Diane, Barney sends cryptic clues to incite Jeff. Rita discovers Jeff is secretly searching for Diane again and confronts him. Meanwhile, Barney continues taunting Jeff, eventually meeting with him and convincing Jeff to come to his cabin where he says Diane is.
More mistakes in The Vanishing
Cop at Gas Station: Had you had a fight recently?
Jeff Harriman: Not a fight, a thing.
Cop at Gas Station: ...A thing?
Jeff Harriman: Yeah, a thing, don't you have a girlfriend?
Cop at Gas Station: Yeah. And what you think is a thing, you can bet your life she thinks is a fight.
Question: Why is there someone (looks like a policeman) lying in the road when Jeff's girlfriend, Diane, vanishes from the service station? (00:22:00 - 00:24:00)
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Answer: He is a crew member lying in the road directly behind the brown G.R.S. Dye Works semi-truck (presumably trying to remain hidden from the camera's view), and we even see his right hand waving off the traffic ahead of him (00:22:05).