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Continuity mistake: Ray is on the phone with his girlfriend; as he says "Whatever you say, Ashley", the green scrapbook is closed. It is open again next, just as it was open before. (00:02:00)

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23rd Sep 2019

Expo (2019)

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie, the girl gets assaulted from the back: you see at first exactly from the shot from behind that the backpack she is carrying escapes her arms, but in the subsequent shot she is still holding it. (00:02:10)

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23rd Sep 2019

Gunman's Walk (1958)

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Continuity mistake: David Hackett is talking business organizing ranch business while his brother Ed is leaning on the counter, gawking at the beautiful Clee and passing her cloth. He has his right arm up in the close-ups, but the left arm up in the wider shots. (00:04:55)

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Continuity mistake: Katie has been grounded, and like most teenagers decides to just drink up a lot of booze. She's sitting on the bedroom floor with her bestie and passes her the bottle of vodka: her friend takes it with her left hand and drinks, but in the following shot she's finishing the gulp by holding it in her right hand instead.

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23rd Sep 2019

Burn (2012)

Continuity mistake: Sheila is clutching the phone to her chest with both hands, since Melinda is reaching for it to delete the butt-flexing video. The door chimes and the bearded man enters the store; in the foreground Sheila is in a different position with her arms crossed, and in a third one with her arms down at the next cut. And even more noticeable, a 4th different one as she walks away, holding the phone across the chest to the opposite side of her body all of a sudden. (00:07:50)

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21st Sep 2019

The African Queen (1951)

Continuity mistake: Allnut is having his gin waving the bottle under Rose's nose; as he asks "You're gonna have one, Miss?" there's a close-up of Katharine Hepburn' holding the handkerchief to her face, unlike the previous and following shot. (00:29:30)

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21st Sep 2019

Eastern Promises (2007)

Continuity mistake: Anna walks up to Uncle Stepan holding a glass. She holds it with just her left hand in the wider shot, becoming two in the following, across the sentence "You have an uncle, Anna, who doesn't steal things from the dead." (00:06:00)

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Continuity mistake: Zombie Iggy Pop approaches the counter to drink some coffee, and you can see a clock on the wall: it's approx 10:10. But as the zombies leave the diner, through the windows you can see the clock: it's now 9:25. (00:30:45 - 00:31:20)

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Continuity mistake: In the motel room, Jack mentions "that Harry Potter guy at the gas station." Zoe's right hand is just below the left wrist. Reverse shot, and it's down at elbow level. (00:56:35)

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21st Sep 2019

Bird on a Wire (1990)

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Continuity mistake: When the corrupt FBI agent holds Rick at gunpoint, he has his left hand on his shoulder in the two waist shots, but not so in the close-up of Gibson between them. (01:39:10)

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Continuity mistake: At the diner, Farmer Frank is asked why he thinks Hermit Bob was the chicken thief. He puts the coffee mug down, but he already did that in the previous shot. (00:10:40)

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Continuity mistake: In front of the motel, Zack pulls the pink suitcase out of the trunk; he does it with Jack holding the bag high up, or all the way down in the second shot. (00:46:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Owen looks down Bourbon Street the day after he found the snowglobe, there are no cars parked on the opposite side of the road and two women are walking on that sidewalk. He crosses the street and now a car is parked and the passersby are different. (01:32:05)

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Continuity mistake: Alva just learned about Legate's true profession and is standing now in his room shouting at him. In the closer shot, her necklace is running on the rightmost part of her right breast, while it is more centered in the wider shots. (00:55:10)

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Continuity mistake: Before Owen leaves her to go work, Willie licks the cone in the close-up, and it's messy and dripping. Cut, and not only she is not licking it, but it's also nicely in shape and not dripping down the pastry. (00:36:05)

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Continuity mistake: Owen is getting cigarettes and ice cream while Willie outside gets approached by the punks in Lindsay's car. During the sequence, Willie's hair is in front or behind her right shoulder, with no real continuity. (00:34:15)

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Continuity mistake: In Papa's room, Alva goes to the window to pull the curtains. Robert Redford is lying on the bed with the right arm across and over his head. There's a close-up in between two shots with him in that position, with an intermediate one when he says "Thank you" with his arm down. (00:26:20)

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Continuity mistake: Sidney kisses Alva as she tells him the dream of going to New Orleans. She has her handkerchief in her right hand, suddenly clutching it to her chest with the left. And she is holding it against his arm with the right as the angle changes again. (00:23:20)

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Continuity mistake: Alva stands up from the swinging bench after the Hummingbird Express has passed. Sidney, by her, has his left hand firmly on the armrest, but the same arm is across his lap in the next shot as if he tried to reach for her. (00:22:30)

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Continuity mistake: Peeved by Owen's trick about the gator and ducks pond, Alva gets outside the kitchen, where instantly she stumbles into Sidney. She is holding her right hand in front of her mouth, which becomes a left hand to her chest with the closer angle. (00:20:55)

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