Continuity mistake: During the scene when the Polar Express slides across the ice and the conductor is telling the train controllers to head for the tracks, the distance between the train and the tracks keeps changing.
The Polar Express (2004)
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Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Tom Hanks, Michael Jeter, Chris Coppola, Leslie Zemeckis
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Conductor: Sometimes seeing is believing. And sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.
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Question: How would the train have been able to go back the same way with the ice on the lake cracking?
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Answer: Because it's a magic train.