Continuity mistake: When it looks like Alex is dead in Dan's bath, she has a long strand of blood coming out of her mouth, but a second later it's gone, and her eyes, which were white, are no longer white - they are open and look like normal eyes.
kh1616
28th Jul 2014
Fatal Attraction (1987)
28th Jul 2014
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Character mistake: When Dan and Beth are talking on the phone, Beth says Ellen, their daughter, is five years old, but later, when Dan and Alex are together, Dan says Ellen is six years old.
28th Jul 2014
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Alex, naked in bed, jumps up to stop Dan leaving, she attacks his shirt, and you can hear it ripping, but, later, it's completely fine - no ripped bits anywhere.
21st Jul 2014
Blade Runner (1982)
Continuity mistake: At Sebastian's place, when Roy kisses Pris on the nose, the powder covering her face and her nose transfers from Pris to Roy, so now Pris's nose is void of powder, but a few seconds later, the powder returns.
21st Jul 2014
Extant (2014)
Continuity mistake: When Molly is in space, alone, a man she knew is on The Other Side of a door that has a circular window in it. The man uses his finger to draw the words "HELP ME." When we first see the words, they are legible and about a third of the way below the top of the window, but the next time the words are much higher up and hard to read, and the third time they are now back to the original place.
21st Jul 2014
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
21st Jul 2014
Charade (1963)
Continuity mistake: While Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn are on a boat going down the Seine, they have two drinks in front of them on the table. The problem is: the drinks keep changing, from full, to two-thirds full, then back to full again, both of them, over and over.
21st Jul 2014
Two for the Road (1967)
21st Jul 2014
Swiss Family Robinson (1940)
Continuity mistake: While the two eldest boys are getting ready to sail around the island, Francis, the youngest boy, is playing with Rocky, the baby elephant. Francis is on Rocky's back, but in one shot, they are on the beach, near the water, and in the next shot, they are so far in the water that Rocky has to use his trunk as a snorkel.
21st Jul 2014
Sylvia (2003)
Continuity mistake: When Daniel Craig stays out late and, finally, comes home to his wife, he takes his tie off, but doesn't undo the top button of his shirt, but that button, suddenly, is undone.
21st Jul 2014
Cocoon (1985)
Other mistake: When the 4 humans rush out of the pool house, there are 3 aliens not dressed in their human skins watching them leave. The problem is: only one alien has eyes. We've seen the aliens out of their skins heaps of times and they always have eyes.
21st Jul 2014
The Good Shepherd (2006)
Continuity mistake: Matt Damon receives a tape in the mail. He listens to it, rewinds, listens again, then fast-forwards it. But instead of getting the fast-forward bit, we get where he left off.
21st Jul 2014
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Continuity mistake: When Laura finds the hammer with blood and hair on it, Rosemary finds the constable and tells him where the hammer is. When we first see the constable's car, it's in a ditch. But when he gets into it and drives away, it's no longer in the ditch, but beside the road.
9th Jul 2014
Charade (1963)
Continuity mistake: When Cary Grant and George Kennedy are fighting on top of a building, Grant is hanging over the edge, but the rooftop sometimes has a metal framework on it and sometimes it doesn't.
9th Jul 2014
World War Z (2013)
Other mistake: When Jerry is in B wing, he has killed two zombies with his crowbar, but when we see the crowbar, there's no blood or brain matter on it.
9th Jul 2014
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Continuity mistake: At Charles' wedding, when he's thinking about not going ahead with the wedding, the top button of his waistcoat is visible, but, seconds later, it's gone.
1st Jul 2014
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Continuity mistake: After they find Private Ryan, Tom Hanks and Tom Sizemore are talking. From one angle, Sizemore has his right hand out as he gesticulates, but from a different angle - the different angles come and go - he has his right hand on his rifle, which is in his lap.
1st Jul 2014
The Mountain (1956)
Continuity mistake: When Robert Wagner falls, halfway up the mountain, Spencer Tracy's rope, which is attached to Wagner, runs through his hands, making them bleed, but, finally, he gets a grip and he pulls Wagner up. As we see Tracy's rope, as it slowly comes up, but there is no blood on it.
1st Jul 2014
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Continuity mistake: When Tom, as Dickie, rents a place in Rome, and after Tom kills Freddie, the police are all over him. Marge comes calling and Tom, as Dickie, asks the policeman to ask her to come back later, which leaves Tom alone with the detective. But as we see Marge creeping up the stairs, to see Dickie, suddenly, the policeman is with Tom and the detective, even though the policeman had left and Tom had closed the doors, so the policeman should not have been there.
1st Jul 2014
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Continuity mistake: Dickie's extra lover, Silvana, turns up dead, during a religious ceremony, and before anyone can get to her, she is face down, but when they do get to her, she is face up, without anyone touching her or from choppy water - the water is flat, no chop.
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