The Principal

Continuity mistake: In their first meeting, Rick Latimer stubbornly holds his hand out to Jake Phillips until he properly shakes it. Louis Gossett Jr. takes his baseball cap off in close-up, but in the reverse shot he still has it on his head. (00:14:50)

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Revealing mistake: The principal apprehends the two younger and bigger guys at once (and for some reason they don't gang up on him and kick his butt). The other guys in the Chevy decide to get back in and drive away. You can already see on the dirt the path they will follow, which is logical for the bit in reverse but not so much for the part when they turn left and go forward, which is not how the car could arrive to that point. And when later the car circles around, it moves also on a path that was not showing in the first shot. (00:11:50)

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Continuity mistake: The purple Chevy Impala rams the net White Zac was climbing. The net falls all over the car and starts covering the kid too, but in the next shot he is on top of the net. (00:10:30)

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Continuity mistake: Rick is pacing behind his ex and the lawyer. He goes past a man in a grey suit in a shot, another man in a grey suit coupled with a woman in a second one, and the next one shows him in the room without either of those people behind him. (00:03:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Rick jumps on the bar counter to grab the bat, the beers mugs in front of his friends to his left change quantity of liquid and direction the handle points at. (00:03:10)

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Continuity mistake: The protagonist just flushed down the drugs a girl was selling in a bathroom stall. She threatens him saying "Someone's gonna come lookin' for you." In the next shot, the shadow she and the other poofy-haired girl by the stall project on the door tripled in size. (00:33:30)

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Continuity mistake: Rick Latimer is at the bar with his buddies. He spots his ex-wife on a date with the divorce attorney and begins rambling. "This kind of sh. Happens", one of his friends says. The friend next to him, rightmost position, is smoking, and his hand is suddenly raised at the cut. (00:02:45)

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