Best drama movie continuity mistakes of 1987

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Empire of the Sun picture

Continuity mistake: When James is eating at home alone, he flips his spoon into his water glass. In some shots it's leaning against the right side of the glass, and in other shots it's against the left side.

Krista

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Prick Up Your Ears picture

Continuity mistake: Has a scene set during the Festival of Britain (1951). Oldman and Molina are shown at night on the South Bank of the Thames, ostensibly having just attended the Festival. In the background is a very clear view of New Zealand House, which wasn't built until the early 1960s, some ten years after the scene was supposed to take place.

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Suspect picture

Continuity mistake: When Kathleen goes to talk to Carl, her client, while he's in restraints she writes "You're deaf, aren't you!" on a legal pad then sits on his bed. She's holding her Sharpie in her hand, cap end up. When the perspective changes to Carl's, the Sharpie is cap end down. The shots go back and forth another time the same way.

Ingabritzen

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Three Men and a Baby picture

Continuity mistake: When the "ghost" is first seen, it is mostly obscured by a curtain; only its right shoulder is visible. In the next shot, however, it is right in the middle of the window, and nearly the entire cutout is exposed.

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Can't Buy Me Love picture

Continuity mistake: When Ronald is in the store talking to Cindy about renting her and the salesman is looking at them through the telescope, Ronald has the money in his hand fanned out. When the camera cuts to the store, the money is not fanned out in his hand anymore.

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La Bamba picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene when Bob takes Ritchie to "get laid", Bob approaches the girl in the pink dress at the end of the row, while Ritchie goes to play La Bamba. You see Ritchie play La Bamba and in the background Bob is all over that girl. The next shot cuts to Bob just arriving at the girl.

Michael Westpy

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Nuts picture

Continuity mistake: When Claudia is being cross examined Dr. Morrison can be seen in the background with his pen in his hand and then his hands clasped, and then with his hands on his cheek throughout the entire scene as the camera angle changes.

MCKD

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The Sicilian picture

Continuity mistake: When the four men are shot at the estate gate there's desk behind them with a hat lying on it. During the shooting the hat gets blown away, but in the next shot from the other side the hat is back in place. (02:00:50)

NancyFelix

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Wish You Were Here picture

Continuity mistake: When Lynda is running out of the garden gate after an argument with her father, she throws the rake behind her. In the next scene, when her father steps on it, it is in a completely different position.

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Roxanne picture

Continuity mistake: When Roxanne finds out the Charlie is the one writing the letters, she pushes him out the front door and when the camera angle changes to the outside she's pushing him again about 3 feet away from the front door.

MCKD

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The Pathfinder picture

Continuity mistake: After Sierge has killed the Tsjude behind Aigin, the Tsjude falls on top of Aigin. As Aigin shakes the Tsjude off, you can see the Tsjude's arm down by his waist. As it cuts, his arm is suddenly pointing away from his body. (00:47:35)

Mortug

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Project X picture

Continuity mistake: When the chimp, Goofy, is flying using the simulator, he's flying haphazardly and crashes into a red truck. He then turns and smiles at the trainer. In the next shot, he is flying haphazardly again.

William Bergquist

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No Way Out picture

Continuity mistake: Kevin Costner jumps a subway turnstile as the two CIA agents chase him. The back of his pants are dirty but in the next shot as he runs down the escalator they're clean again.

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Cry Freedom picture

Continuity mistake: When Donald Woods meets his wife again at the Lesotho airport, his hair has lost most of the black from being dyed, but once he's on the plane, his hair has become blacker again.

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Hamburger Hill picture

Continuity mistake: Near the beginning of the film, the soldiers are filling sand bags with mud. Beletsky, whose hands and forearms are covered in wet mud, puts down his sandbag and takes out a photo of his girlfriend. In the next closeup shot of him holding the photo, his hands are suddenly clean and dry. (00:11:00)

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Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 picture

Continuity mistake: While Ricky is on his shooting spree, he manages to shoot at an oncoming car, causing it to to crash and roll over. As the car rights itself, the driver and the car seats are visible. The right rear passenger window is also fully intact. Just before the car explodes, the driver has disappeared, along with the car seats and the same rear side window is now completely missing.

Mercury

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Ironweed picture

Continuity mistake: When Frances takes Helen to sleep in the car, he puts her in the back seat from the drivers side. In the morning the camera is looking at her through the the window of the door on which she appears to be leaning. Yet when she gets out of the car later in the scene, there is a canvas draped over the door way.

greydane

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Light of Day picture

Continuity mistake: After the grocery store visit, Joan Jett walks to her room at the hotel and goes to her room on the second floor, a short time later she opens her room door which is now on the first floor. (01:35:00)

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The Pick-up Artist picture The Pick-up Artist mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Molly Ringwald is on the phone at the club and gets approached by the girl in orange, throughout the whole conversation the position of the phone receiver in Randy's hand is wildly inconsistent. (00:09:30 - 00:11:00)

Sammo

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Ten Little Indians picture

Continuity mistake: During the dinner quickly interrupted by the record. Anthony Marston raises his glass to Vera, but his hand was nowhere near the glass in the previous shot - not even on the table. (00:14:30)

Sammo

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