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Continuity mistake: The cardboard sign behind the pink one under Mary's arm when they decide to drive to Texas for the storm changes from vertical to horizontal to vertical positions between camera shots.

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Other mistake: The camera shots that Steve takes during the storm are far too steady given how much we see him moving the camera, almost as if it was on a tripod. The problem is that Steve is holding the camera and we can see how much it moves during the ground collapse footage he takes when the kids are being rescued.

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Continuity mistake: There's not enough dirt around the edge or in the water down in the hole to represent the amount of dirt that was displaced when it collapsed in.

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Continuity mistake: When Mary and Elizabeth are talking about traveling at the end of the hospital scene, the sun keeps disappearing and appearing on Elizabeth between camera angles.

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Visible crew/equipment: When the news van is driving away from the tornado wreckage on the highway, we can see the camera crew and bright square light source in the reflection of Steve's glasses.

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Revealing mistake: During the distant shot when Mary, the reporter and little girl are first coming up out of the hole, the cable going back down into the hole is barely taut and moving around too freely to actually be pulling that much weight up even for a steel cable.

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Continuity mistake: When the crane breaks, it only drops one end of the cable with the hook into the hole. However, later on Mary makes a contraption which the cable snapped and both ends are in the hole, going up over the pulley on the crane. The number of cables going into the hole from the crane varies for the remainder of the movie from 1 to 2 cables - and is not to be confused with the string of lights.

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