Factual error: When Andy and Charlie have caught a cab (allegedly in Manhattan), and the agents are running after the car, we see green letters reading "Manor", which is a movie theater in Wilmington, NC. (00:03:19 - 03:26:00)
Firestarter (1984)
1 factual error - chronological order
Directed by: Mark L. Lester
Starring: Drew Barrymore, George C. Scott, David Keith, Heather Locklear, Freddie Jones
Continuity mistake: When Charlie sets the bath full of water on fire, the bits of burning wood scattered around the bath change position greatly between shots. (01:15:20)
Captain Hollister: What's to stop me from having you erased right here and now?
John Rainbird: My word - that I've already made certain provisions that should I "disappear", The Shop will cease to exist within six weeks. And within six months, you will stand in front of a judge awaiting sentence for crimes serious enough to keep you behind bars for the rest of your life.
Question: At the beginning of the film we see Andy make the agents who killed his wife go blind with his mind. Why then didn't he do the same to John Rainbird at the end when they were in the barn?
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Answer: Everything happened too fast for him to react, his powers were barely working, controlling only Captain Hollister. If he was at full power he could have controlled everyone.