Revealing mistake: Dave is racing with the Italians, and the Italian puts his pump in Dave's spokes. In the middle of the bike falling over, you see a horizontal beige object with duct tape on it for a couple of frames, where you should see Dave.
Breaking Away (1979)
1 revealing mistake
Directed by: Peter Yates
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Dennis Christopher
Continuity mistake: In the climactic race scene near the end, every time the camera cuts back to a long shot of the race, the lap number on the board goes up and down, rather than going up sequentially.
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