The Langoliers

The Langoliers (1995)

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Continuity mistake: When Brian is trying to talk to the passengers after first landing and tells them that they know as much as him, Toomey walks down the cabin, walks past Brian and continues to walk down the cabin. Then in a closer shot of Brian, Toomey is shown walking past Brian a second time. (00:53:05)

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Continuity mistake: When Dinah finished explaining that there is no birdsong and no motors revving, she says "But" and Rudy is looking to the left. In the next shot, Rudy is suddenly looking at Dinah. (00:55:25)

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Continuity mistake: When the passengers are standing outside of the plane after landing, just after Dinah finishes talking, Nick asks Brian "What now" and Brian replies "You tell me." Nick is standing with his body facing towards Brian. When the camera changes angles, Nick's body has suddenly turned 90° so that it is facing towards the airport. (00:55:35)

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Continuity mistake: When everyone begins walking to Bangor Airport, in the wide shot Brian is behind the rest of the group. When the shot cuts, he is suddenly ahead of Gaffney. (00:58:27)

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Continuity mistake: When everyone is looking at the empty airport reception area, there is a shot where Albert looks Bethany, and then she looks at him. The shot then cuts to Nick standing in the foreground of shot, and in the background, Bethany can be seen looking straight forward and not at Albert. (01:00:16)

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Continuity mistake: In the reception area, after the frozen clock is shown, Dinah and Laurel hug. Dinah is placing her left arm around Laurel's waist. But in the next shot, her left arm is lowered. (01:00:25)

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Continuity mistake: Bob removes the battery cover to a clock to see if the batteries are still inside. Once he removes the cover in the close-up shot, the cover is held so that it is pressed against the edge of the clock. When the camera cuts back to Bob, the cover is away from the clock. (01:01:40)

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Revealing mistake: In the scene when they all have just arrived at Bangor when Bob Jenkins compares his watch with a clock (he looks if there are batteries inside) I'm not sure, but I guess one battery is reversed so that the clock is stopped. (01:01:45)

Other mistake: When Toomey looks out the airport window toward the plane, there is an airstair unit rolled up almost against the aft right side of the airplane in front of the horizontal stabilizer. The airplane didn't taxi (not could it) to swing past the airstair unit. The wing wouldn't have cleared it. (01:06:25)

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Visible crew/equipment: When it shows Toomey's father sitting down with a newspaper, as he gets up to shout at Craig, a boom mike is visible, above him. (01:06:35)

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Visible crew/equipment: When Craig's father slaps Craig, and Craig then falls down to his knees on the floor, you can see a red tape marker on the floor by Craig's feet. (01:07:20)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Toomey's father is telling Toomey that the Langoliers will come for him, Toomey starts crying, saying "What can I do" and putting his hands on the front of his father's blazer. When the shot cuts, his hand is suddenly around his father's back. (01:07:50)

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Continuity mistake: After Toomey starts crying into father's blazer, his father gets him off him by grabbing onto Toomey's blazer around his shoulder. When the shot cuts back to Toomey, the shoulder doesn't appear to have been pulled on at all. (01:07:55)

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Continuity mistake: After Toomey has the imaginary confrontation with his father and hears Brian shouting his name, he has each hand on both sides of his face. In the next shot, his left hand is over his mouth and his right hand is over his left hand. (01:08:22)

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Continuity mistake: Just after Toomey goes into the Airport Security closet, the others are shown walking up an escalator. In the shot from behind, when they reach the top, they are all shown standing one behind each other. In the next shot, Nick, Brian and Rudy are suddenly standing a couple meters ahead of the others. (01:08:55)

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Revealing mistake: When everyone goes up to the second floor on the escalator, behind them outside through the glass doors you can see people walking about. (01:09:10)

Hamster

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Suggested correction: I have rewatched this scene and saw no people.

Daniel Offerman

Continuity mistake: When Dinah is trying to explain that something is out there, Brian says to her it's just her imagination. Nick is shown next to him with his right upper arm at his side. Cut to Dinah, and Nick's right upper arm is suddenly extended slightly due to his hand being placed on his hip. (01:09:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Dinah is trying to explain what she is hearing, as she is saying "I heard it when we got off the airplane, then I decided it was just my imagination", Nick is shown in the background looking at her. It then cuts to a close-up shot of her, and Nick is suddenly looking to the right. (01:10:05)

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Continuity mistake: When Bob is asking Dinah if the sound is closer than when she first heard it, Laurel is standing right beside her with her arm around Dinah's shoulder. In a different angle, Laurel is suddenly standing with a slight distance from Dinah with her arm by her side. (01:13:05)

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Continuity mistake: When everyone is in the airport cafe, just as Rudy goes to take a bite out of the sandwich, it seen in his right hand. When he spits it out a few seconds later, the sandwich is now in his right hand. (01:14:43)

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Craig Toomy: Oh I'm real scared now.

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Trivia: In the scene near the end of the movie, there is a board meeting on the tarmac. The Chairman of the Board is Stephen King who is the author of The Langoliers. (02:10:15)

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Question: Is there a reason why when they're in the past they can't catch up with the present, but when they land a little into the future, the present can catch up with them? Are they not moving along on their own timeline? And if not, why are they not left in that moment and stand there to see the present come and go without taking them?

Answer: Think of time as a gear with only one tooth, and think of them as a gear with only one notch. In the past, the one tooth has forever passed their notch and they'll never be carried along in the flow of time again. In the future, the tooth comes along, snags their notch, and they're back in the flow of time.

Phixius

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