The Langoliers

Continuity mistake: Dinah, Laurel, Bethany, Gaffney and Rudy go into the cafe to find Toomey no longer there. When Dinah deduces his location, in the shot of her saying "Behind something", Bethany can be seen behind Dinah, in between her and Gaffney. Gaffney then walks over to her and Bethany cannot be seen. When the shot cuts again, she can be seen behind Gaffney and should have been visible in the previous shot. (01:41:47)

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Continuity mistake: Brian tells Albert to crack open a can of soda. In the shot of him holding the can, whilst he uses his right hand to crack he has two fingers from that can, pressed against the side. Then there is a close-up of the can opening and those two fingers are now curled against the side. (01:39:58)

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Continuity mistake: When Albert lights the second match, in the close-up of his hand, he has the match placed between his thumb and index finger. In the next shot, it's between his thumb and middle finger. (01:37:50)

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Continuity mistake: When everyone is wondering what to do, Gaffney walks up to Brian and asks him what they do now. In the shot of Gaffney walking up to him, Brian has his left hand on the left side of his face and right hand on the right side. It then cuts to a close-up of Brian where his left hand is now on the right side of his face. (01:34:25)

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Continuity mistake: When Gaffney takes the bottle of beer off Rudy, he holds it in his right hand and takes a sip. He then turns to the bin to spit it out and moves the bottle to his left hand. In the close-up shot of him spotting the beer in the bin, the bottle has moved back to his right hand. (01:15:35)

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Continuity mistake: When Bob is explaining to Rudy that the sandwich isn't spoiled, Rudy is holding a bottle in his left hand. It cuts to Albert and Bethany for a few seconds. When it cuts back, Rudy's right hand is holding the bottle and his left hand is in his pocket. (01:15:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Rudy hands the sandwich to Bob for him to taste, he is shown holding a bottle of beer in his left hand, and his right-hand level with the left one. When Bob goes to spit out the bite, Rudy's right hand is suddenly at his side. Bob then says "That's not spoiled", and Rudy's right and left hand are level again. (01:15:05)

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Continuity mistake: When everyone is in the airport cafe, just as Rudy goes to take a bite out of the sandwich, it seen in his right hand. When he spits it out a few seconds later, the sandwich is now in his right hand. (01:14:43)

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Continuity mistake: When Bob is asking Dinah if the sound is closer than when she first heard it, Laurel is standing right beside her with her arm around Dinah's shoulder. In a different angle, Laurel is suddenly standing with a slight distance from Dinah with her arm by her side. (01:13:05)

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Continuity mistake: Just after Toomey goes into the Airport Security closet, the others are shown walking up an escalator. In the shot from behind, when they reach the top, they are all shown standing one behind each other. In the next shot, Nick, Brian and Rudy are suddenly standing a couple meters ahead of the others. (01:08:55)

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Continuity mistake: After Toomey has the imaginary confrontation with his father and hears Brian shouting his name, he has each hand on both sides of his face. In the next shot, his left hand is over his mouth and his right hand is over his left hand. (01:08:22)

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Continuity mistake: After Toomey starts crying into father's blazer, his father gets him off him by grabbing onto Toomey's blazer around his shoulder. When the shot cuts back to Toomey, the shoulder doesn't appear to have been pulled on at all. (01:07:55)

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Continuity mistake: Bob removes the battery cover to a clock to see if the batteries are still inside. Once he removes the cover in the close-up shot, the cover is held so that it is pressed against the edge of the clock. When the camera cuts back to Bob, the cover is away from the clock. (01:01:40)

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Continuity mistake: In the reception area, after the frozen clock is shown, Dinah and Laurel hug. Dinah is placing her left arm around Laurel's waist. But in the next shot, her left arm is lowered. (01:00:25)

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Continuity mistake: When everyone is looking at the empty airport reception area, there is a shot where Albert looks Bethany, and then she looks at him. The shot then cuts to Nick standing in the foreground of shot, and in the background, Bethany can be seen looking straight forward and not at Albert. (01:00:16)

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Continuity mistake: When the passengers are standing outside of the plane after landing, just after Dinah finishes talking, Nick asks Brian "What now" and Brian replies "You tell me." Nick is standing with his body facing towards Brian. When the camera changes angles, Nick's body has suddenly turned 90° so that it is facing towards the airport. (00:55:35)

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Continuity mistake: When Dinah finished explaining that there is no birdsong and no motors revving, she says "But" and Rudy is looking to the left. In the next shot, Rudy is suddenly looking at Dinah. (00:55:25)

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Continuity mistake: When Brian is trying to talk to the passengers after first landing and tells them that they know as much as him, Toomey walks down the cabin, walks past Brian and continues to walk down the cabin. Then in a closer shot of Brian, Toomey is shown walking past Brian a second time. (00:53:05)

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Continuity mistake: When Rudy goes to sit down in his seat with the others just before the plane goes to land, Gaffney can be seen in his seat with his mouth closed. It then cuts to a close-up shot of him, where his mouth is suddenly open. (00:44:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Rudy asks if anyone knows how to work the little oven up in the galley, he raises his right arm and points to it with his thumb. Then it cuts to a closer shot of him and his arm is suddenly lowered. (00:30:57)

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Nick Hopewell: Do you ever watch Mr. Spock on Star Trek?
Craig Toomy: What the hell are you talking about?
Nick Hopewell: Because if you don't shut your cakehole, you bloody idiot, I'll be happy to demonstrate his Vulcan sleeper-hold for you.

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Trivia: In the scene near the end of the movie, there is a board meeting on the tarmac. The Chairman of the Board is Stephen King who is the author of The Langoliers. (02:10:15)

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Question: What happened to the people who disappeared? Did they die?

Answer: Yes, the passengers who were awake through the time rift were killed instantly, including Nick Hopewell on the return trip.

Danny Duignan

Hey you can't really assume anything with a film like this and with a storyline being so mysterious and suspenseful. I think it is left up to one's imagination where the passengers disappeared too. Personally I think or would like to believe they all survived but in another dimension probarly in the 4 or 5th dimension like with the Bermuda triangle which is very similar to the movie in relation to people disappearing without a trace.

Actually, since items like pacemakers were left behind it's safe to assume at least some of the missing passengers are dead.

I assume that since some passengers who disappeared left behind their pacemakers, they probably died.

Answer: No, they didn't die. The premise of the story is that the sleeping plane passengers were in an alternate timeline a few minutes out-of-sync with normal time; so, when they awoke, they were aware of a dead zone in the immediate past. Everyone else in the world is still alive in the present. The "Langoliers" were interdimensional creatures that fed on the past, gobbling it up like a stage-cleaning crew.

Charles Austin Miller

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