Best drama movie continuity mistakes of 2009

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3 Idiots picture

Continuity mistake: The group photo after the exam, appears three times in the movie. On the photo, apart from the place of Rancho, the other places on the photo are all different each time. (01:24:40 - 01:28:20)

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The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day picture

Continuity mistake: When Murphy, Connor, and Romeo arrive at Doc's bar the first time, a cigarette can be seen tucked behind Murphy's left ear, but when the boys enter the bar, it is now behind his right ear.

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Continuity mistake: Crowe gives the girl reporter a necklace made of ballpoint pens. When Crowe leaves and she runs after him the necklace is gone. (01:47:45 - 01:48:45)

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Continuity mistake: When the car hits a rock in the start, the are leaking oil, after 1/2 minutes they walk back to the spot where they hit the rock, the oil trail is gone.

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Daybreakers picture

Continuity mistake: At 1:02:38, you see that the front door is closed. The scene after, when Lionel goes out of the water tank where they were hiding, the same door is now wide open. Then a bat scares him, and you see that the door magically closed back. (01:02:35)

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Continuity mistake: When they go into the garbage chute Hutch goes in head first, but comes out at the bottom feet first yet had no room to swivel round.

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Continuity mistake: During Kate and Steve's day off, while talking by the kitchen counter, Steve's hand is either up or down without any continuity at all.

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Hachiko: A Dog's Story picture

Continuity mistake: At home, the first day Hachi fetches the ball, he is either standing on the sun or on the shade, depending on the shot.

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The Time Traveler's Wife picture

Continuity mistake: Claire sits on a blanket and empties a bag of stuff on it. Then it seems empty when she takes it from the ground to hand it over to Henry. The stuff would have sounded and the blanket is to light when she takes it from the ground to hand it over to Henry.

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The International picture

Continuity mistake: During the shoot-out at the Guggenheim, each of the assailants is using so many bullets that they would have needed huge bags to carry all the magazines.

Jacob La Cour

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An Education picture

Continuity mistake: At Jenny's birthday she receives two dictionaries, and one is unopened (the one from the boy). After David arrives with the presents, Jenny says that there's no space on the table, and then we can see both dictionaries are without the wrapping paper.

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Continuity mistake: People are often shown listening to the radio at completely different times of day to the times shown on the boat.

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Funny People picture

Continuity mistake: When Seth Rogan and Adam Sandler are driving back to L.A. the vehicle stick shift is in park. When they arrive in L.A. Adam Sandler shifts it back into park.

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Whip It picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Babe Ruthless is the jammer in the last seconds of her first derby she scores 4 points, as the announcer is telling the spectators, the shot goes to Babe skating around the track with arms in air, and the jammer star helmet cover she was wearing is missing. In the next shot she skates up to her coach and the helmet cover has reappeared.

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Continuity mistake: When Max is going to get K.W. just prior to the Dirt Clod War, his hood is down. When he returns to Carol and Douglas, (just prior to being hit with a dirt clod) his hood is up.

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Continuity mistake: 21 minutes and 30 seconds into the film, Dorian enters Cibyl's dressing room holding his hat and what seems to be the program to the performance (that he has just watched with Cibyl in it). A few seconds later, Dorian has only his hat. Seconds later, he has the piece of paper and his hat in his hand again. Dorian did not sit down anywhere or go near anything that he could have put the "program" down on to be picked up again a few seconds later. (00:21:30 - 00:22:00)

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Continuity mistake: During the volleyball game scene, after Sara has been put into the game, when the shot goes to the sideline she is still there too. (01:03:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Shawn meets Harvey in the restaurant, he brings in the box of umbrellas which is soaking wet from the rain. When he leaves, the rain has stopped and the box changes from being soaking wet to completely dry to wet again for the rest of the scene.

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Continuity mistake: In one scene there is a ferris wheel in the background behind James. In the next shot, the ferris wheel disappears.

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Amelia picture

Continuity mistake: When Amelia is meeting with Fred Noonan at the open aired restaurant in New Guinea, right when Amelia sits down, the waitress repeatedly sets a glass of water in front of Amelia. It happens 3 times.

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