Deliberate mistake: After Flipper knocks Sandy off the pier with his tail, there is an underwater close-up of the two of them swimming towards each other. This shot is flipped, note Sandy's watch and bracelets have switched wrists. (00:34:20)
Flipper (1996)
1 deliberate mistake
Directed by: Alan Shapiro
Starring: Elijah Wood, Jonathan Banks, Paul Hogan, Robert Deacon
Continuity mistake: When Sandy, Kim, Porter, Cathy, and Marvin go and look for the site where Dirk had dumped the poison in the ocean, watch Sandy's shirt. Throughout the sequence Sandy switches between two shirts when it is the same day.
Uncle Porter: You're going to have to use your brain which is going to hurt because it's the weakest muscle in your body.
Trivia: In some parts of the film, Sandy is wearing a Smashing Pumpkins T-shirt - Elijah Wood's (Sandy) favourite band.
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