Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Sarah laying in her bed, drawing a picture of everyone standing outside Hansen's Café with knives, between a wide shot and a closeup, as she is colouring it, the drawing noticeably changes. (00:04:40)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: As Joseph is about to run away through the corn field, the shot pans across the corn and it is blowing in the wind. In the very next shot as Job says, "You're not going through the corn are you?" the corn is now totally still. (00:11:40)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Joseph stumbles into the road, Burt hits him with his car. In the initial shot we see that Joseph's body had landed in the middle of the road on a yellow line. In a following shot, his body is now seen to be by the side of the road. (00:15:35)

Hamster

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Suggested correction: He didn't stumble. He was standing.

This isn't a valid correction. Make a word change if you think it needs to be more specific, and you can stumble and still be standing.

Bishop73

Continuity mistake: As Vicky and Burt are driving along the country roads, in some of the exterior shots of the car, telegraph poles are visible, running along the roadside. But then when it cuts to interior shots, the telegraph poles have vanished. (00:09:50)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: After Burt has been stabbed, he is chased around the town. During the scene, in different shots, the size and shape of the blood stain on Burt's tee-shirt continually changes. In some shots it's small, then large, then smaller again etc. (01:00:05 - 01:02:00)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Malachi and some other children are trying to take Vicky from the bedroom, someone hacks a bit of the door out with an axe, but in the next shot that par of the doort is suddenly back intact again. (00:53:00)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: After Sarah takes the needle off of the record player in the bedroom, when Vicky comes over and starts to question her, the record continues to spin to a stop, then in one shot it stops spinning. But in a following shot it is still spinning. (00:46:25)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Vicky and Burt enter the bedroom which Job and Sarah are in, there is a small white clock on the bedside table behind Sarah. Between shots in the scene, the position of the clock changes. (00:45:30)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Burt twists the arm of the girl who is giving the church sermon, to hold her still, her black dress strap falls halfway down her arm. In a following shot, before she grabs the knife, it is back up on her shoulder. (00:59:30)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Burt and Vicky are driving around and end up at the gas station, the sun is near sunset. But a few scenes later on, the sun is high like it's late morning, even though it takes place later on in the same day. (00:27:00)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Job is hanging up the lantern in the barn, as the winds blow, there are two children huddled up, to the right of Job and the others. In the next shot of Burt entering, one of the children has vanished. (01:15:05)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: At the start of the film when Vicky gives Burt his birthday present, there is a radio on the bedside shelf, to the right of the wall plug fixture. When she turns the radio on in the following shot though, the radio is under the plug fixture. (00:06:50)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Burt and Job are out in the cornfields, trying to set up the hose, Burt tells Job to turn the valve. As Job turns it, his ripped cardigan is hanging from his elbow. In the next shot it's suddenly up on his shoulder. (01:19:50)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Burt, Vicky, Job and Sarah arrive back to the corn-trashed car at the end of the movie, the corn stuffed inside the front of the car is no higher than the open bonnet, yet in the next shot corn is sticking out, up higher than the open bonnet. (01:23:20)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Joseph stumbles onto the road, Burt brakes to a halt, and swerves. As he swerves, there are tyre tracks on the road, in front of the car, from a previous take. Additionally, the tracks change and (dis)appear. (00:15:30)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Burt gets out of the car to go check Joseph's dead body on the road, as he rolls Joseph's body over onto his back, the position of his arm, and the amount of blood on the road changes between shots. (00:16:15)

Hamster

21st May 2006

The Waterboy (1998)

Continuity mistake: During the barbeque with Vicky, Bobby and Mama, after Mama drinks from her jar of red drink, she sets the jar down twice between shots. (00:32:25)

Hamster

21st May 2006

The Waterboy (1998)

Continuity mistake: When Bobby finds Vicki working on his lawnmower, a man wearing a yellow shirt appears and disappears in the background several times throughout the scene. (00:30:05)

Hamster

21st May 2006

The Waterboy (1998)

Continuity mistake: After Bobby jump-kicks player 62 down to the floor, because he insulted him, the football appears beside player 62 between shots, as he lies on the floor. (00:29:20)

Hamster

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