Mac and Me

Continuity mistake: When Eric's brother is leaning outside of the van to haul his brother, in the close-ups the baddies disappear from behind, only to appear in the next shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: During the vacuum scene, the hose keeps swapping from being over Eric's shoulder to under his armpit. This takes place in really short time lapses.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: During the windshield scene, a brown pickup truck smashes the back of a white car. Half a second later, the pickup is seen crashed against the front of the car, only to change to the initial position when the pile-up occurs.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Mac is on the windshield, one of the close shots shows that his hand is bent and up, yet on the immediate wide angle it's straight and along the glass.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: At the supermarket, a guard with the gun lifts his cap and places it up and loose, by the forehead, from the opposite angle it's still tucked in.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Chased by the baddies, Eric is seen next to a blue car, but in the immediate close-up that car is many meters away.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When escaping from the baddies down the road in his wheelchair, as seen from behind, Eric's hair colour changes to a much darker one, and he is thinner, revealing it's a stunt or dummy.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Mac is being chased by dogs, among them a black one. From a different angle the black dog is gone, only to appear couple seconds later coming out from a house.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Eric is looking for her mum by the escalators, there's just her mum and a man and no one around, but half a second later an old man appears behind, and a second after a woman also appears, then she disappears.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Eric holds Mac against him in McDonald's, before the clown comes, Mac is either resting on his shoulder or bent forward, depending on the angle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: The door of the gas tank from the white car bursts open when the van lands. A second later it is closed.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After the vacuum cleaner scene, Mac is drinking from a Coke can held by Eric. The can changes positions between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Eric and Debbie are looking out the window at the cops, Eric is lightly pushing down on the blinds. He is pushing the blinds down in the center of the window. In the next shot he is pushing the blinds down much harder at the bottom of the window. (00:55:00)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: After the father MAC smashes the panel of glass at the science lab, there is more glass missing in the second shot, although no further breakage is heard nor seen. (00:09:10)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Eric and Debbie are at McDonalds, they give Brittany two presents, putting them on the corner of the table. However when MAC extends his arm to get the drink, the presents are no longer there. They then keep appearing and disappearing. (01:00:45)

Hamster

Visible crew/equipment: When the MAC's emerge from the NASA craft in the lab, there a shot through the lab glass of the father MAC, with the reflection of a cameraman holding a camera in the glass. (00:08:55)

Hamster

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Trivia: Comedian Paul Rudd had a running gag for many years where, whenever he'd appear on Conan O'Brien's late-night talk show, he'd set up a clip for a film he was promoting... and then instead show the infamous clip from "Mac and Me" in which Eric falls over a cliff in his wheelchair, and the alien Mac pops up in the foreground. The gag ended up going on for 17 years.

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