Bruce Almighty

Bruce Almighty (2003)

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Continuity mistake: When Jim Carrey parts the traffic and when the camera is on the side of his car and he starts to go, look all the way down the road you could see a person crossing the street but when it shows a sky view of him driving there's no one there. (00:45:45)

Continuity mistake: Just before Bruce hands his camcorder to the kid, to videotape the discovery of the body of Jimmy Hoffa. The eyepiece instantly points up and away from it, from one shot to the next, yet Bruce didn't move it. (00:49:45)

Matty Blast

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Continuity mistake: Grace and her sister are at the Asian spa getting massages. The Asian woman walking on Grace's back steps all the way up to the base of her neck. The camera cuts to a different angle and the woman's feet are back down to the lower/middle portion of Grace's back. (00:50:05)

Matty Blast

Factual error: When Jim Carrey is messing up Steve Carell with weird stuff on the prompter, the text that comes up is absurdly small. If this text was used to make a real news report, the reporter would appear to have shifty eyes from reading the small print. (00:52:10)

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Bruce makes Evan Baxter spout gibberish on the live newscast, the water glass at Evan's right elbow moves between shots. Sometimes it is closer to his elbow, sometimes farther to Evan's right. The glass also changes position in reference to the graphic projected behind Evan, although it appears that the graphic moves to the right also. (00:52:20)

Audio problem: At the classy restaurant, watch the man playing the drums. The brushes that he's supposedly using to play the snare drum are an absurd 5-6 inches higher than the drum, making it obvious that he wasn't really playing, and that the music was dubbed in. (00:53:15)

Matty Blast

Revealing mistake: When Bruce is at the restaurant and Jennifer Aniston believes that he is about to propose, watch her left ring finger, you can see the tan lines from her real wedding ring. (00:54:25)

Visible crew/equipment: When Bruce and God were on Mount Everest, there are several scenes where a cross-shaped microphone is visible when they are talking. I'm almost positive this has been fixed on the DVD version. (00:56:10)

Other mistake: When Bruce is responding to the e-mail prayers on Yahweh., you can see the prayers don't change, they just repeat the exact same requests in the exact same order. (00:59:35)

Audio problem: When the radio presenter talks about the weather being perfect to forgive Bruce, Grace reacts to the strange part of his statement while he's still talking about the normal weather. (01:05:54)

DragoTime

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Continuity mistake: When Bruce comes to the kindergarten to make up with Grace he shouts "love me", with his hair parted on the right. The camera cuts to Grace, then back to him, and it's parted on the left. (01:09:55)

NancyFelix

Factual error: As Bruce is about to go on air as an anchor for the first time (at 6 p.m. Buffalo time/ET), a TV screen shows Bloomberg Television. On that, the logo for "Morning Call with Brian Sullivan" comes up. Morning Call finishes at 10 a.m. ET and at that time of the evening Bloomberg would be showing World Business Report. (01:10:50)

Continuity mistake: When the bum is standing with the "Thy kingdom come" sign you see a man in a red shirt and a man in a black shirt behind the bum. In the next shot the man in the red shirt is still there, but the man in the black shirt is replaced by another person. (01:13:10)

Mortug

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Visible crew/equipment: When Bruce goes back to the building toward the end of the movie looking for God and finds it deserted, as he runs through it, you can see the shadow of a figure (a crew member) on one of the columns on the left. It even slightly moves as he's approaching the ladder as if trying to duck away from behind. (01:13:55)

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Suggested correction: This is definitely God's shadow. It's exactly where he appears a little later. So it's not a crew member, but a continuity error because Bruce must have seen him when entering the hall.

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Continuity mistake: After Bruce and God finish cleaning the floor, Bruce rests his hands on the top of the mop. The way his hands are positioned change from shot to shot - first one on the other, then one on top and one on the side. (01:14:55)

Continuity mistake: After the riot in the streets of Buffalo, Bruce meets up with God again in the Omni Presents building. They discuss how everything is going wrong. At the close-up shot of Bruce's face when he says, "What do I do now?" the frame is flipped. You can tell this because his hair is parted on the wrong side and his nose looks different. (01:15:20)

Macalou

Continuity mistake: In the few days of Bruce being almighty the moon changes from full (when he pulls it closer) to half (after his second visit to the Omni Present building), and then back to full (when we see Grace praying). (01:16:20 - 01:21:55)

NancyFelix

Continuity mistake: The scene where Bruce is putting a picture in the photo album, the right side of the page is empty. But when the shot changes, the right page now contains pictures. (01:16:40)

Visible crew/equipment: When Bruce is in the rain with the blue shirt, you can see his microphone under his shirt about 6 inches below his neck. (01:22:20)

Continuity mistake: After Bruce gets hit by the truck on the highway he is talking to God. The shot keeps switching from behind Bruce to facing him - in the shots behind his head a lock of hair is seen hanging over his forehead, though shots facing him show no hair. (01:23:50)

Grace: I'll be out in a minute!
Bruce: Don't rush yourself. Sometimes anticipation can heighten the...pleasure.
[Grace's knees buckle as she is hit with an intense wave of sexual pleasure].
Grace: Oh God! Oh.
Bruce: It's a funny thing about...pleasure.
Grace: Wow.
Bruce: It can be quite...PLEASURABLE!
[Grace is hit by another intense rush of sexual pleasure, and falls onto the toilet seat.]
Grace: Oh my God.
Bruce: Pleasuring pleasurable pleasuring.
[Grace suddenly experiences the most intense orgasm of her life, and collapses onto the floor in sexual bliss].
Bruce: ...Pleasurable pleasurable.
(00:43:52 - 00:44:36)

DragoTime

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Trivia: In Egypt, the film was banned by the state-run censorship body because it felt the comedy mocks God's sacredness.

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Question: In the film they find Jimmy Hoffa's body, but who is he? I've never heard of him.

Answer: Hoffa was the powerful and controversial leader of the Teamsters Union from 1957 to 1971. Often alleged to have ties to organized crime, Hoffa was convicted of fraud and jury tampering in 1964 and served four years in prison before his sentence was commuted by President Nixon. In 1975, while trying to regain power in the union, Hoffa disappeared from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He was widely assumed to have been killed by the Mafia. His body was never found, and in 1983 he was declared legally dead. Many movies joke of this, because to this day, his body has not been recovered.

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