Best romance movie character mistakes of all time

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Look Who's Talking picture

Character mistake: When Mollie goes to Albert's office for the first time since having Mickey, Albert asks if he is walking yet, and she says no. In the next scene with Mickey, he walks, and is walking when he visits Albert's office.

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Character mistake: Corie goes into the empty bedroom and says "The bed is six feet long" as she measures it out with her feet "and the room is five and a half feet, and I'm in big trouble." But she only measured the width of the room, not the length.

kh1616

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Character mistake: Near the end, Iris's doctor attempts to take John's pulse. He has his hand wrapped around John's hand, his fingers nowhere near the top of the wrist, where the artery is; and as he counts the "beats", against his wristwatch, John talks to him and he talks back - when you are counting something, you can not talk at the same time; you lose count every time.

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Character mistake: Mr. Phillips is supposed to be a sophisticated and proper music teacher, but his behavior during Michael's first class seemed out of character. He didn't say anything when two students got up and danced in the front of the classroom. He told Michael that "everybody who takes music is required to play in the orchestra", but after hearing Michael play piano, Mr. Phillips (unauthorized) told him he didn't have to play in the orchestra." Also, he told Michael, "get out of here" - not professional. (00:21:43 - 00:26:42)

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Character mistake: Flynn has been reading for a while, taking notes, spreading books around, etc. - when Nicole arrives and says that it was nice to watch take-off from the cockpit. The plane must have been in the air for a long time by then.

Jacob La Cour

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Character mistake: When Tracy is about to announce that the wedding is off, she turns to Dexter for help, and he says "Two years ago..." Tracy starts the announcement "Three years ago..."

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Suggested correction: She says "two", not "three." Although some have said Dexter says "three", but he doesn't.

Bishop73

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Character mistake: Lucy says the source of the quote "To err is human" as Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Man." The quote actually originates from Pope's earlier work, "An Essay on Criticism."

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Milk Money picture

Character mistake: When Frank says to "V" that his mother died before he was born, "V" replies that she doesn't think that's possible. She is wrong. Although it may be uncommon, some babies ARE successfully born even after the death of its mother (usually with an emergency procedure).

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Character mistake: Mac's cousin says that even if Nick wasn't a cop, he'd have to hate Mac's guts. He says that Mac wears a Rolex and Nick wears a Timex - not true. Nick is wearing a Rolex, also.

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Character mistake: When Greg and Rose are playing backgammon, Rose counts the middle of the board as a place to count when moving a piece, but the middle of the board isn't a place to count.

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The Lost Empire picture

Character mistake: The ref says there's no rules before McClure fights Whiplash but she tries stopping them later.

Rob245

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13 Going On 30 picture

Character mistake: Jenna has Sparkle letters at her work. Wouldn't she get caught earlier?

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Home for the Holidays picture

Character mistake: Claudia says she is 40, her daughter is 16, it is referenced that it was a young pregnancy, however she would have been 24 when she had Kit, hardly abnormally young.

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Suggested correction: 24 is still young and she doesn't say anything about being "abnormally young." Plus, in 1979, the mean age for first time mothers was around 25.5 (rising to around 28.6 in 1995), so she was on the young side of first time mothers. If she had said she was a teenager when she got pregnant, that would be a mistake.

Bishop73

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Character mistake: Dean told Laura that Fiona's toiletry case was in his bag because "She couldn't fit it in her carry-on, so I put it in my luggage." Laura (who had no reason to fabricate the story to her dad Felix) changed the details, which she couldn't know based on what Dean told her: "There were some of his co-worker's toiletries in his luggage. But she couldn't put them in her carry-on for security, so he offered to put them in his luggage." Unable to fit in isn't the same as "for security." (00:13:05 - 00:23:57)

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Character mistake: Reina asked Cory if they could "do that thing" because it was helpful for her medical school training. Reina then put a raw slab of steak/meat across his forehead and made slits in the meat as well as jabbed at it. A medical student studying to become a brain surgeon should know about and practice the safe handling of raw meat. (00:23:10)

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Character mistake: At the beginning of the movie, during "Provincial Life", we see a fat lady trying on a hat in a hat store. The sign over the window, in French, reads "Chapeau" (hat). The correct way to identify that store would have been "Chapeaux" (hats) or "Chapelier" (hatter).

Sereenie

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Suggested correction: I listened several times and I heard "Sean" every time.

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Character mistake: When Andy calls Linda, as Linda and Steve are hooking up, he addresses her (on the answering machine) as Tammy.

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Suggested correction: Although it sounds like he says "Hi Tammy," he actually says "Hi, it's Andy."

Phaneron

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