Best romance movie character mistakes of all time

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Singles picture

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."

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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.

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

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Character mistake: At one point Michael J. Fox says he doesn't want to end up in Danbury Correctional, why not? The Federal prison in Danbury CT would be a dream come true since he would be the only male inmate, as it became all-female in 1993.

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Character mistake: When Tracy's mom enters Motormouth Maybelle's place she is surprised to see her daughter. When she calls to her she says, "Tracy Edna Turnband" instead of "Turnblad."

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The Philadelphia Story picture

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.

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Character mistake: Largeman tells his father that he's leaving "tomorrow," but spends two more days in town. The next day is his last day, and they do not talk later the same day as they promised they would.

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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: At the rehearsal dinner, when Steve walks up to Miranda she calls Steve "Dave." Dave is his real name.

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Character mistake: Thomas rips off his one glove as he makes his escape but then grips the bottom edge of the security door to slide under it. Smooth metal door would leave perfect finger and palm prints. I doubt detectives would miss prints on a door that was normally recessed away from the public. His prints may not be on file but would be easy to obtain once he was under suspicion. (00:19:20)

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

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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: Breaking the news of war to the Sayers, Allnut tells them that the war is involving smaller nations like "Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Spain." Spain was not amongst the participants of WW1. (00:10:00)

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Character mistake: Isaac is supposed to be 42 and Tracy is supposed to be 17. He says "when you're 36 I'll be..." and she completes the sentence with "63". It should be 61.

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